EXCLUSIVE — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s dependence on hard-right parties for a slim governing majority has left hostages held by Hamas vulnerable to politicians who are indifferent to their fate, the brother of an Israeli American captive fears.

“Not only are we not their [political] base, they see us as their enemy within Israel,” Lee Siegel, an Israeli American citizen whose brother, Keith, was taken captive by Hamas during the Oct. 7 attack, told the Washington Examiner during a Monday video conference. “They see us as counter to what they believe needs to happen in Israel, and, as they call it, Greater Israel.”