• cogman@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Geez, so the Hamas cease fire terms were essentially. “Please leave the gaza strip and we’ll give you back the hostages that have survived your onslaught”.

    The response “Lol, fuck you for being so unreasonable!”

    Really puts to lie israel’s claim that this was about hostages in any way.

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    9 months ago

    What’s delusional is claiming you can have “total victory” without explaining what that actually means.

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      looks around nervously we just want Hamas to not be in Gaza! Any one of those Palestinians could be Hamas! They all have tunnels! It’s not a genocide! Promise!

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        They can’t even claim they just don’t want Hamas in Gaza, because now they’re doing operations in the West Bank. So what if whoever they consider to be Hamas flee there and goes to Lebanon? Or Syria? Or Egypt? Or Jordan? Is Israel just going to keep fighting them wherever they decide they are?

    • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      Netanyahu’s criterion for total victory is the eradication of Hamas.

      This criterion cannot be met by attacking Gaza, since much of Hamas’ leadership is not in Gaza. This is just an excuse to attack Gaza indefinitely.

  • LocoOhNo@lemmus.org
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    9 months ago

    This should absolutely land him in the Hague for war crimes/crimes against humanity, but all the Israel Stans won’t ever let that happen because they think allowing this blatant genocide will get them into “heaven.”

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldB
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    9 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected Hamas’s proposed ceasefire terms - saying “total victory” in Gaza is possible within months.

    Senior Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri told the Reuters news agency that Mr Netanyahu’s remarks “are a form of political bravado”, and show he intends to pursue the conflict in the region.

    An Egyptian official source told the BBC that a new round of negotiations, mediated by Egypt and Qatar, is still expected to go ahead on Thursday in Cairo.

    And Mr Netanyahu’s rejection of a “delusional” plan are in stark contrast to remarks from Qatar, which described Hamas’s response as “positive.”

    The Israeli leader’s comments are a blow to sustained push by the US to reach a deal that its top diplomat, Antony Blinken, described as “the best path forward” - even though he cautioned there was “still a lot of work to be done.”

    He is insisting on an entity where Israel maintains overall security control, and Gaza is run by local bodies with no connection to Hamas or any other group.


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