While Israel’s religious authorities are eager for their country to get involved in the war, several political figures say it’s not Israel’s job to rescue Syrians. The disagreement draws out a complex psychological tension not only among the country’s leaders, but also within Israeli society writ large.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, for one, is holding firm to his years-long resolve not to intervene. Although he was quick to voice his outrage that Syrian civilians had been gassed, he conspicuously refrained from saying that Bashar al-Assad was behind the outrage. Looking out for Israeli interests, Netanyahu is now calling for the eventual establishment of buffer zones on the borders between Syria and Israel and between Syria and Jordan, so as to keep Iran and Hezbollah from gaining a foothold there.

Unlike Netanyahu, Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman pointed the finger directly at Assad, saying he was “100 percent certain” that the Syrian dictator was to blame for the Idlib attack. But like Netanyahu, Lieberman prides himself on prioritizing Israeli security, and this past week was no exception. “Why do we need to take the chestnuts out of the fire?” he said Thursday. “This is the responsibility of the international community. I won’t be the schmuck that the whole world pisses on. Let the world take responsibility and act instead of talking.”

Israel, of course, is part of “the international community” and part of “the world.” But Lieberman sees things through his own ultra-nationalist lens. He is not shy about making Holocaust comparisons, but he prefers to invoke the tragedy to defend Israeli settlement building against EU criticism or to liken the Palestinians’ national poet to Hitler, rather than to urge action on behalf of embattled Syrians. Or, as a social psychologist might put it: When he deploys the Holocaust analogy, it’s to buttress his own ingroup, not to support an outgroup.

In fact, for Lieberman, the world’s non-interventionism on Syria reinforces his own Israel Firstism. “The international community’s response is zilch,” he said. “It simply doesn’t exist. It brings me back to the conclusion that Israel must rely only on itself.”

Meanwhile, Jewish Home party leader Naftali Bennett took a slightly more forceful interventionist line. “Children are choking to death. The world MUST ACT against the chemical massacre in Syria,” he tweeted. Still, he placed the responsibility for that intervention squarely on others: “I call upon President Trump to lead this effort.” Bennett has also been calling for a security cabinet meeting to discuss the situation in Syria; he will get his wish on Sunday, Haaretz reports.

Bennett and other members of the security cabinet—including Interior Minister Aryeh Dery, Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon, and Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz—have recently said that Israel should increase its humanitarian aid to Syrian refugees or take in endangered Syrian children. Israeli hospitals already offer medical treatment to thousands of injured Syrians.