Kidnappings cannot be normalized

The following writer warns that kidnappings of Israelis are being normalized, and the topic wasn't clearly brought up during the week USA vice president J.D. Vance paid Israel a visit:

US President Donald Trump's plan to end the war in Gaza includes several components that represent significant, even unprecedented, gains for Israel. Yet one deeply troubling issue—the normalization of the abduction of Israelis—has been entirely absent from discussions about Israel's achievements in the war and the debates surrounding the day after.

[...] Ultimately, the hostages once again proved to be the terrorists' greatest asset, They are more valuable than rockets, missiles, or tunnels. Even after Israel defeated Hamas and its allies both above and below ground in Gaza, it was still compelled to accept parts of their conditions in order to secure the hostages' release.

Even worse, the abduction of Israeli civilians has become fully normalized. Despite being a moral outrage and a flagrant violation of the laws of war, no one in the global community is calling for the kidnappers to be punished, nor has anyone sought to deny them the fruits of their horrific crime. The world's hypocrisy is not new, but this time it has reached unprecedented levels.

It'll eternally be chilling and disturbing, but let's also consider that even the kidnappings of non-Jews have been normalized, as the Rotherham rape scandal in the UK should make clear. And this is precisely why the issue must be made far clearer than it was before, and why it's an abomination that cannot be allowed to go unchallenged.