"Every action, every statement and every move that is taken all have one organizing principle: How can Netanyahu survive in power another day, another hour?" Cristal said. He added that for the prime minister -- whose political career hangs by a thread after a triple indictment, the government's failure to protect citizens on October 7, and mounting pressure from within his own coalition -- "the lives of the hostages are all irrelevant to him. The only factor he needs to consider is how to survive another day in power. When you look at this through that prism, everything makes more sense."