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[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 18 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

What's gross is acceptance of the idea that Hamas has 'leverage" because they took hostages

You don't have to like reality to understand it. The taking of innocent civilians as hostage is one of the many atrocities of Hamas that I unequivocally condemn. That doesn't change the reality that those poor people ARE leverage in the negotiations, just like innocently imprisoned and tortured Palestinians are for the Israeli government.

I take issue with the idea that taking hostages gives you leverage on anything, in any permanent sense.

Again, acknowledging isn't endorsing.

If Israel's actions confirm anything (other than that they are just as capable of visiting the same atrocities on others as any humans are) it's that

It's what, exactly? That hostages aren't used as leverage in ceasefire talks? Because Israel has leveraged innocently imprisoned Palestinians in every single ceasefire negotiation since the first one.

Show me what their actions have "levered" and I will show you a ruined land with a fast increasing body count. Way to apply yourselves champs.

Again completely missing the point in your quest to paint me and others as superfans of kidnapping as a political tactic.

It makes you a target. Period.

Being a Palestinian in Gaza (and to a lesser but still atrocious degree the West Bank) makes you a target. Period. No atrocities committed by Hamas necessary. Those are pretenses for what the fascist Netanyahu government already wanted to do, not the actual reasons.

One deserving of retribution

Now who's being fucking gross? To say, knowing full well what Israeli government "retribution" looks like, that anyone could possibly deserve it is callously vengeful to the point of abhorrent bloodthirst.

You don't ever, ever get to walk away from that

Don't worry, at the very least double as many innocent Palestinian civilians as Hamas terrorists won't.

you don't get to claim you have leverage

Again with this complete ignorance of how ceasefire negotiations work, especially in THIS particular 75 year long conflict.

QE motherfucking D.

You have demonstrated nothing except your own ignorance and cocksure belief in the infallibility of your poor understanding.

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