So genuine question, what if the bombings killed some of the hostages?
Edit: Of course, my hope is that they would still be returned to their families. I never insinuated it otherwise.
They are not just stopping Gazans from going back to *their home*, they are stopping them from going back to *a home in general.*
The Gazans that are displaced are refugees in an area with no homes or basic infrastructure that can handle that many people. No healthcare or childcare for kids. Absolutely fucked.
I wonder at what point, the citizens of Palestine rebel against Hamas, overthrow them, and identify them to the IDF?
Life in Gaza is completely fucked and will likely remain that way until a) Hamas is dead/gone and b) hostages are returned. Even if bombing stops, life will still be impossible.
Gazans cant return back to Gaza? I wonder if Egypt is willing to take them… oh wait.
This is the kind of de-escalation the Middle East is famous for.
That’s not to say they’ll be allowed to return to their rubble IF the hostages are released.
Not collective punishment at all then.
This is how you create terrorists
Return to what? Gaza is rubble.
Israel isn’t valuing Israeli lives more than Gazans, Hamas is.
This can be over tomorrow if they give them up. If they can’t produce the hostages, Israel won’t stop until Hamas is obliterated.
85% of the country is displaced. Return to what?
Gazans can’t do anything until Netanyahu feels like Israel has forgotten about his complete failure to protect them. They won’t. So, the war is indefinite.
The point at which Hamas should have released all the hostages has long passed. They should have never taken them in the first place of course. My suspicion though is that Hamas has no firm control over the hostages and doesn’t want to acknowledge that fact. Sub-commanders could easily be going rouge or be being paid directly by foreign powers to keep the hostage crisis ongoing.
The hostages Hamas does have control over can’t be released, because it would shift the value to the those rouge hostage takers. If Hamas has 80 and the rouges have 40 Hamas releasing 40 of theirs makes the rouges as important as Hamas. Each living prisoner is the only currency that matters anymore in Gaza.
Hamas should have released every prisoner just after the invasion, it would have made Israel’s attack look like what it mostly was: retaliatory.
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So genuine question, what if the bombings killed some of the hostages?
Edit: Of course, my hope is that they would still be returned to their families. I never insinuated it otherwise.
They are not just stopping Gazans from going back to *their home*, they are stopping them from going back to *a home in general.*
The Gazans that are displaced are refugees in an area with no homes or basic infrastructure that can handle that many people. No healthcare or childcare for kids. Absolutely fucked.
I wonder at what point, the citizens of Palestine rebel against Hamas, overthrow them, and identify them to the IDF?
Life in Gaza is completely fucked and will likely remain that way until a) Hamas is dead/gone and b) hostages are returned. Even if bombing stops, life will still be impossible.
Gazans cant return back to Gaza? I wonder if Egypt is willing to take them… oh wait.
This is the kind of de-escalation the Middle East is famous for.
That’s not to say they’ll be allowed to return to their rubble IF the hostages are released.
Not collective punishment at all then.
This is how you create terrorists
Return to what? Gaza is rubble.
Israel isn’t valuing Israeli lives more than Gazans, Hamas is.
This can be over tomorrow if they give them up. If they can’t produce the hostages, Israel won’t stop until Hamas is obliterated.
85% of the country is displaced. Return to what?
Gazans can’t do anything until Netanyahu feels like Israel has forgotten about his complete failure to protect them. They won’t. So, the war is indefinite.
The point at which Hamas should have released all the hostages has long passed. They should have never taken them in the first place of course. My suspicion though is that Hamas has no firm control over the hostages and doesn’t want to acknowledge that fact. Sub-commanders could easily be going rouge or be being paid directly by foreign powers to keep the hostage crisis ongoing.
The hostages Hamas does have control over can’t be released, because it would shift the value to the those rouge hostage takers. If Hamas has 80 and the rouges have 40 Hamas releasing 40 of theirs makes the rouges as important as Hamas. Each living prisoner is the only currency that matters anymore in Gaza.
Hamas should have released every prisoner just after the invasion, it would have made Israel’s attack look like what it mostly was: retaliatory.