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Netanyahu rejects Hamas conditions for hostage deal which include 'outright surrender'
(www.reuters.com)
this post was submitted on 22 Jan 2024
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The fact is they can think about this situation after the hostage deal, Netanyahu funded Hamas, and is illegally keeping Palestinians in jails, the fact he doesn’t agree to a hostage swap deal males him even more of a bastard because he doesn’t care about his own people either, further fueling the ideology (of Hamas) that Israel should not exist, if they are not gonna agree to hostage swap deals, what do you think Hamas will do? Willingly surrender them? And what would Palestinians think, for such a tortured and terrorized population, you can bet they are gonna want to just kill Israel altogether, since they can’t come to any form of compromise with Israel
What happened on Oct. 7 was definitely a freak accident, there is a very low chance that Hamas will be able to pull of this again (even though there are now some news sources that say it was actually the IDF, that killed the majority of the civilians)
A hostage swap deal is definitely the smarter thing to accept, it would reduce tensions on both sides, at-least a litte bit, but Israel doesn’t want to stop it’s illegal torture and genocide of Palestinians, even if it means he has to pay his own population as the price
You need to get your news from different sources.
No offense, but you really didn't understand what I was saying at all. Agreeing to this preposterous proposal from Hamas would achieve absolutely nothing beneficial to the Israeli nor Palestinian people. There is no reducing tensions with a group that has repeatedly vowed to wipe out Israel and every Jew in the world while at the same time stating that they wish for more Palestinians civilians, men, women and children, to spill their blood for the cause.
Here's the best thing that could happen: Hamas gets defeated, the war ends and with it most of the dying, both from death and the terrible conditions in a war zone, and Israel elects a new, more moderate government that proves to be a more merciful victor. This is very likely, given how unpopular Netanyahu is. Everyone considers him a dead man walking politically. Even in the best of cases, Palestinian statehood is off the table for many decades to come however, as are any Israeli concessions or reforms to their justice system. Do you really think they'll give up on any security measures, no matter how cruel they are, like for example indefinite detention now or at any point in the future? How would you sell this to voters? Every single democracy that has experienced a terrorist attack goes through a period of crackdowns and more restrictive laws. It was the same in the US after 9/11, it was the same in the UK during the Troubles and after the 7/7 central London bombings, it was the same in France after Charlie Hebdo, etc. pp.
If there's one thing Hamas have achieved, it's bring the very people who were their most important allies, those left-leaning pacifist Israelis that live in the communities close to the border with Gaza - those most affected by the massacres - and were an important counterweight to the likes of Likud, up against them. I don't think you are even aware of the fact that they murdered and abducted key pro-Palestinian Israelis and with that act, they permanently shifted the entire Israeli public much further to the right. An Israel that is mourning the dead of the October 7 massacres, that has learned that any kind of appeasement will be interpreted as weakness and ruthlessly exploited, an Israel that is a victor over those who perpetrated the worst pogrom against Jews since the Holocaust will build higher walls than ever before, will dig deeper moats between themselves and Palestinians than ever before and it will be more defiant in that their cause is right than ever before.
The fact that the October 7 massacres inspired waves of antisemitic violence across the globe only further confirms to the Jewish people just how important having a Jewish homeland is, the only place in the world where a Jew doesn't have to think twice before wearing a kippah. If you have never experienced racist discrimination, then it is difficult to comprehend just how much this is worth alone.
Does it justify excessive force, does it justify settlers, indefinite detention, restrictions to movement, a two-tier bureaucracy and a two-tier justice system? Of course not, but to paraphrase and twist on its head what that embarrassment of a UN General Secretary said, these things aren't happening in a vacuum.
I think it should be clear that I am in no way supporting Hamas, your argument is essentially saying ‘Hamas bad, you can’t come to compromise with them’, I am saying that Hamas are powerless next to Israel, what happened on Oct. 7 was just a freak accident, and the chance of it happening tends to zero, once deal with the people who are affected, and then deal with all the madlads
I can’t fathom how ignorant this statement is, what is ‘preposterous’ about this? Israel has been illegally detaining Palestinians for 75 years, these are real people who had kids, husbands, wives, similarly Hamas detained some people and are asking for a deal where Hamas releases Israeli citizens and Israel releases Palestinians, this would be tremendously ‘beneficial’ for both sides, people can reunite with their loved ones, and escape the torture inflicted upon them by Israel (and probably Hamas as well) (Taking hostages is not good, I should clarify this, but not agreeing to a swap after hostages have been taken is even worse)
Also there should be no reducing tensions with a group that has illegally detained people, committing a genocide, and vowed to wipe to every Palestinian, while killing their own civilians for their own political gain as well
The best case scenario is Netanyahu is hanged, Hamas leaders are arrested and whatever the court decides to do with them, a two state solution, and heavy military on the border of the two states.
Security measures do not mean illegally killing innocent civilians, conquering land and torturing innocent people
Anyone who calls themselves ‘left-leaning’, hates hamas, but cheers Israel, is not ‘left leaning’ they are a hypocrite, “You are either against fascism of all forms, or you are a hypocrite, you condemn a terrorist organization, and terrorism done by a government”
Israel is not any sort of ‘hero’, it’s a black mark on every jew, they portray themselves as the pope of jews, but are committing the most heinous crimes, against international laws, against the Geneva conventions, and they justify it with the phrase ‘My ancestors were a victim of the holocaust’, any person who doesn’t fully consider the situation will definitely see this as the principles of Judaism, Israel is a big reason for the rising Anti-semtism
This is not the 1500’s, you can’t just declare war and conquer some land, is your solution to rising antisemitism is to get every jew the nationality of Israel?
What about the rise of Islamophobia in the world? You have to think twice before wearing a hijab in france (and possibly the whole Europe as well in the next few years), how about we make a separate state for every religion, ethnic group and a race? A white state, a black state, a christian state, an LGBT state, a Straight state, a jewish state, a buddhist state etc? We should learn to at-least tolerate other people’s beliefs and choices, not ‘please go somewhere else’
And funnily enough you contradict your whole argument in the last paragraph