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joker125 ,

This is his only way of staying in power. Fuck Bibi

bemenaker ,

bibi is a warmonger, always has been

ginerel ,
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That'd surely had been a bad idea. I mean, that would disrupt Hamas&Bibi's spiral of escalation, right?

aidan ,

One source with knowledge of the talks, which slowed after the Israeli ground invasion, said a central point of discussion was a demand by the Israeli side for Hamas to provide a full list specifying the name and details of each person held in Gaza. The Israeli side was unwilling to cease bombardments without receiving this list.

Hamas responded that it was unable to provide the list without a pause in the fighting, as the estimated 240 hostages were held by a number of different groups in places across Gaza. That suggested even Hamas leaders do not know for sure how many people are held captive, their locations or the number who have survived the bombardments.

Another source said Hamas originally demanded prisoner exchanges, fuel and other supplies in return for the hostages, but these demands were dropped in favour of a halt to the airstrikes alone.

“Each time the Israeli counter-demand got harder,” the source said. Members of Hamas have previously said they took hostages in order to exchange them for the thousands of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails.

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Sources briefed on the talks told Reuters that the group discussed allowing small amounts of fuel into Gaza for humanitarian purposes, which Israel has so far refused, as well as the deal to free a small number of hostages in exchange for a ceasefire of one or two days. The outcome of the talks, however, remained unclear.

It sounds like these sources may be members of Hamas’ negotiating team, which I don’t exactly know that that’s a reliable source.

Microw ,

It doesnt sound like complete BS that Hamas probably doesnt know the exact number, names and placement of hostages at the moment. They probably have a good idea but no definite list.

A_Random_Idiot ,

Of course he did.

The hostages are much more valuable to Israel in captivity, so they can continually exploit them for genocidal justifications.

Genericusername ,

This is simply not true.

There were talks about up to 15 hostages, of 239 in demand for 4 days of ceasefire. Hamas needs this ceasefire desperately to regroup and assess the damages. The chaos now serves Israel well and apparently it puts much more pressure on Hamas. The ground invasion proves very effective. Maybe as Hamas becomes more desperate the “price” for the hostages will drop. Alternatively, if Israel will allow them to regroup, the war will take significantly more time because it will be much harder to eradicate them. Maybe the Israelis know where the hostages are held and after a ceasefire the hostages will be transferred to a different hideout, or smuggled via the tunnels to Egypt and from there to who knows where.

homura1650 ,

Neutral and Israel alligned countries have been calling for a humanatarian pause on purely humanitarian grounds. Even if you don’t care about the hostages, that Hamas was willing to offer them means that they had an interest in such a pause as well; making Israel the only obstacle to it happening. That is to say, the severity of the humanitarian disaster in Gaza is squarly on Israel’s shoulders. The most charitable reading of the situation is that they have determined that the tactical advantage of blocking a humanitarian pause outways the civilian lives they put at risk by doing so.

snek OP ,
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And even that charitable reading means they are committing collective punishment.

cosmicrookie ,
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It’s not about the hostages any more. They are the excuse Israel needs to eradicate a whole country.

fosforus ,

Did you just completely ignore what Genericusername wrote and decide to reply to him anyway?

Genericusername ,

Israel cares a whole lot about its hostages. Evidence for that are the prices they were willing to pay in the past.

But sure, let’s go with your logic. Why can’t Israel just go carpet-bombing the crowded part in the south of the Gaza strip that all the refugees fled to? It would be a very effective way to eradicate them all. They are so crowded in such a small area that it’s possible to kill a couple hundred thousands in a single day. Wow, Israel has a lot to learn on how to ethnically cleanse a region.

INHALE_VEGETABLES ,

!remindme 1 week “hmmmm”

Microw ,

Netanyahu has been on confrontation with the families of the hostages for weeks now.

Genericusername ,

This proves nothing. Of course there would be people who wish for any deal regardless of the conditions and it is not surprising that they will confront the government about it.

snek OP ,
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The price of Hamas not “regrouping” is not worth committing genocide for.

fne8w2ah ,

Scum propping up scum as always.

Linkerbaan , (edited )
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When Putin was invading Ukraine everyone was calling for the Russians to just kill Putin. When Hamas invaded everyone was calling for the Palestinians to kill Hamas themselves.

Awfully silent these days though now israel is the party committing war crimes.

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    pomodoro_longbreak ,
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    I think some people might just be waking up to that now.

    Tavarin ,
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    As has Palestine.

    redcalcium ,

    Telling Palestinians to kill Hamas leaders is useless because the top Hamas leaders are actually living abroad, unlike Putin who stay cooped in Russia.

    fosforus ,

    For practical purposes, Putin is pretty much as safe as the Hamas leaders.

    soggy_kitty ,

    Awful use of the word “everyone”

    Linkerbaan ,
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    You’re right I should have clarified. European and Americans which have always yelled that violence against politicians is never justified did a 180 on their morals when they didn’t like someone.

    fosforus ,

    You don’t see the logical pattern here? This is about being against fascists like Putin and Hamas. Nobody is claiming that our side is filled with lawful good angels, only that the other side is mostly assholes whose main goal is to fuck everything up. Therefore it should be obvious who to root for.

    Linkerbaan ,
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    Hamas aren’t fascist. They are freedom fighters defending their land. Are Ukrainians fascist to you?

    Tavarin ,
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    Hamas aren’t fascist

    Hahahaha, hole hell that’s the dumbest shit I’ve heard in ages. Thanks for the laugh.

    fosforus ,

    Hamas aren’t fascist.

    They are objectively by definition fascist, and as you defend them, you are defending fascists. You should be deeply ashamed of yourself.

    Are Ukrainians fascist to you?

    No. What kind of a fucked up question is that?

    Linkerbaan ,
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    Zelensky isn’t holding elections because they’re at war defending against invaders. According to you he is a fascist right?

    gravitas_deficiency ,

    I’ll tell you a secret: he doesn’t want to get the hostages back yet. They’re serving as a casus belli right now.

    BeautifulMind ,
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    won’t somebody think of the warmongers?

    Land_Strider ,

    Hey, getting having a casus belli that can be passed around to buy you time to bomb a city long enough before someone intervenes, especially if you can’t singlehandedly deter many of the other armies to leave you alone, is a rare opportunity for small fish warmongers.

    CosmicCleric ,
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    casus belli

    casus belli /kā″səs bĕl′ī, kä″səs bĕl′ē/

    noun

    • An act or event that provokes or is used to justify war.
    • A matter or occasion of war; an excuse or a reason for declaring war: as, the right of search claimed by Great Britain constituted a casus belli in 1812.
    • An act seen as justifying or causing a war.

    (The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition)

    cosmicrookie ,
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    Found the Crusader Kings player

    BackOnMyBS ,
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    I think Netanyahu has a similar look about his eyes as Putin? It’s like they’re monsters inside and are communicating how little empathy and concerns for others they have inside, almost as a warning. Anyone else feel the same thing?

    tuxtey ,

    I think it’s the military training plus a little extra sociopath on the side.

    ShroOmeric ,

    He’ll rather kill them all with his own hands rather than stop the war. The moment genocide is over he’s next in line to get fucked. So long hostages. This is what you get for electing sociopaths I guess.

    shatal ,

    At this point he doesn’t have a choice. Hamas offered to release about a dozen hostages for a ceasefire.

    The Israelis repeatedly declared that there won’t be any ceasefire without the release of all the hostages.

    If he accepts anything else he’s most likely to loose all control.

    BeautifulMind ,
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    Of course he doesn’t want to de-escalate the situation.

    If he did that, things might calm down and fewer people will vote based on his promises of being strong on security. Also if he did that, his hard-right backers (who need a hot conflict to keep taking Palestinian land politically acceptable) will attack him for being ‘soft’ on security.

    The logic of it all is genocide of course, but Bibi wants that if the alternative is him being out of office and back in court defending himself against corruption charges.

    ghostdoggtv ,

    All he cares about is escalation. The United States needs to ditch Israel before they get us attacked too.

    jonne ,

    Yep, he’s seeing the opportunity to finally kick the Palestinians out.

    better_than_nothin ,

    Kick out? More like gun down.

    c0mbatbag3l ,
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    Before? Dude, radical islamic extremists have been calling us “the great Satan” for decades lol

    They hate us for our support of Israel and thousands of people have already died because of it.

    burchalka ,

    Nope, radical islamists hate US and anything that stands between them and dar-al-islam (world of Islam)…

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    TropicalDingdong ,

    Globally, we’re going to need to develop approaches for de-radicalizing large groups of people. Even if we can start on the direction towards peace in this situation, both the Israeli and some segments of Palestinian people seem radicalized to the point of no return, where no true solutions is even possible. I see the same thing in the US with whatever tf you want to call the Republican party. They’re over the cliff. No pulling them back. Yet we need a way to de-radicalize these people otherwise there is no path forward.

    Flag ,
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    You dont have to leave Israel and palestine to find more groups. Have you seen what kinds of people bibi is courting to stay in power? Ultra-orthodox far right netters who are publically asking for a cleansed ethno-state.

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