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While Israel has an extensive list of hostages, Hamas has never made such a list or provided one. It occasionally released selected hostage videos or claimed that one or another hostage was deceased. Truthfully or not. The actual list of hostages, most people have concluded, is a lot smaller.
Every terrible ceasefire proposal on Israel’s side still requires Hamas to produce a list o hostages. And Hamas generally replies by offering to trade terrorists for hostages or their bodies.
And every time it’s asked about the hostages, Hamas claims not to know.
“No one has an idea” of how many of the remaining 120 hostages in Gaza are still alive, Hamas official Osama Hamdan, currently based in Lebanon, admitted in an interview with CNN on Thursday.
“I don’t have any idea about that,” he told CNN from a Beirut office. “No one has an idea about this.”
Hamas knows but it prefers strategic ambiguity because the hostages are the only possible lever that can save it. The Biden administration and elements of the Israeli Left are obsessed with saving Hamas. But the only stated reason that elements of the Israeli political system would agree to suspend the war would be to save the hostages. Without hostages, there is only the cold brute reality of Oct 7.
Ending the war to save 100+ hostages and ending the war to save 31, 19 or 8 hostages plays differently.
The real question is how many Israelis have to die or be taken hostage next time around. That’s why making the war about the hostages was always a mistake.
You don’t fight a war to get back hostages, you fight it to keep hostages from being taken.
The existence of the hostages allowed Hamas and its useful idiots, including in Jerusalem, to play a game in which once again anything is acceptable in exchange for getting them back.
Hamas has already said that it will carry out Oct 7 over and over again.
The real question is not how many Hamas terrorists can be released per hostage, but how many Oct 7s can be perpetrated per hostage.
Israel’s government seems as dysfunctional and anti-citizen as America’s. Why are Hamas jihadists in prison? They should all be executed forthwith. And why is Gaza allowed to exist? All those occupiers should be pushed into Egypt. There are plenty of terrorist tunnels for them to use.
Israel should be for Jews only, just like America should be for Americans only. And islamopithecines have no place in any civilization. They should be quarantined in their backwater counties and all trade and aid cut off. Let the animals eat each other.
Absolutely on target.. The surest way to prolong the jihad against Israel is to negotiate, waffle and listen to outsiders (especially the US) who don’t know s— from Shinola.
It shames me to admit that President Trump was the only good friend Israel ever had. Even Ronnie Reagan, who was a good guy, refused to recognize Jerusalem as the Capitol.
Israel’s survival depends on the understanding of the enemy, their tactics, their lies, manipulations, and their hatred. Sometimes people have to do whats not politically correct for some, but for the populace in general over all to have peace.
Nice tea bag bruise on that jihadist’s forehead. I thought being gay was Haram in Islam?
Absolutely.. As difficult as it would have been, elimination of Hamas without ANY ceasefires should have been priority one from day one.
You cannot negotiate with lying bastards who want you eliminated.
Israel’s approximately 300 nuclear weapons, along with America’s arsenal, could speak volumes if only ….
If the American political leaders would just work honestly together with Israel, the entire Islamic depravity lunacy
violence and murder and aggression would be cleaned up in a couple weeks.
Unfortunately, too many America political “leaders” are playing a dangerous double game with Israel and the Islamic OPEC blackmailers.
Israel seems too concerned about what the rest of the world thinks and whether people will hate Israel for what they do. Israel will be hated by the evil people in the world regardless of what Israel does or doesn’t do. This has been the case for the few thousand years of Jewish history. Israel needs quit caring about world opinion and to fight to win a real victory, instead of the usual fighting to a stalemate and calling it a victory.