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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
Disregarding Trump and his ridiculous behaviour, if Hamas had released the cruelly taken hostages, very few Gazan civilians would have died. As I said before, it's on Hamas.
Btw, 'From the river to the sea' says it all. The one Middle East democracy is surrounded by enemies who would wish all Israelis dead.
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There’s no evidence that Israel wouldn’t have continued its borderline genocidal campaign even if Hamas had released the hostages. The aim is to “eliminate Hamas”; with such a broad definition as to include the destruction of schools, mosques, churches, universities, hospitals, energy infrastructure and turning off the water supply.
It’s a simplistic retort to absolve Israel from blame - nothing more and nothing less.
Even if Israel had stated that as their position - why would anyone trust them not to move the goalposts? Just as we went from “we don’t bomb hospitals” to “we do bomb hospitals”, and “we don’t summarily execute medical workers” to “well, now that there’s a video, maybe we made mistakes”.