Twitter suspended a Jewish Biden staff member because she resigned and criticized the genocide.
PuerileDropped out of this thread about 700 pages ago. But watched Douglas Murray on Real Time the other night. As he points out. All Hamas needed to do was return the hostages, which they refuse to do.
They offered ceasefires where they would return the hostages a few times, the last 9 days ago.Dropped out of this thread about 700 pages ago. But watched Douglas Murray on Real Time the other night. As he points out. All Hamas needed to do was return the hostages, which they refuse to do.
The last time I heard they were offering to return hostages was at a 30 to 1 exchange. Release 30 Hamas prisoners and you get one hostage back.They offered ceasefires where they would return the hostages a few times, the last 9 days ago.
Sure they did. LOL. How did their offer read? "you know those hostages we got? well, we will return them on October 9th or 10th. We had our playtime. You can have them back. Some of them are slightly damaged..... "used" you might say. The 1200 we slaughtered on October 7th? Hoping you will give us a free pass on that one. Let's let bygones be bygones. Just don't enter the Gaza strip. Those are our terms.They offered to release hostages as early as October 9th or 10th, in return for the IDF not entering the Gaza strip. But of course Bibi wanted his 35000+ lbs of flesh.
‘No doubt’ Netanyahu preventing hostage deal, charges ex-spokesman of Families Forum
Haim Rubinstein claims Israel rejected early Hamas offer to free all civilians if IDF didn't enter Gaza, lays out PM's alleged political meddling that led him to quit last monthwww.timesofisrael.com
They held a truce in Nov and Hamas returned hostages.Sure they did. LOL. How did their offer read? "you know those hostages we got? well, we will return them on October 9th or 10th. We had our playtime. You can have them back. Some of them are slightly damaged..... "used" you might say. The 1200 we slaughtered on October 7th? Hoping you will give us a free pass on that one. Let's let bygones be bygones. Just don't enter the Gaza strip. Those are our terms.
Sometimes you can't squeeze the toothpaste back in the tube. Or to quote Pottery Barn. "You break it. You own it"
What the fuck did they think would happen?
You are giving Hamas cart blanche to kill 1200 people. Take hundreds of hostages and then lay down terms for their return.So Israel had to make a choice. Get back hostages or go in and start killing everyone. They chose the latter. So what is the use crying about hostages now? Its clear they are an afterthought and have already been written off. So basically Doug Murray's - "All they had to do was return hostages" is a false narrative.
So Israel should have just accepted the "truce" and said "no harm no foul" carry on chaps.They held a truce in Nov and Hamas returned hostages.
Netanyahu could have continued the exchanges but he chose more genocide instead.
Dec. 2: Freed hostages speak at Tel Aviv rally as Netanyahu vows to press Gaza ground op
Rockets target Tel Aviv for first time since Nov. 20 * Gallant says Hamas refused to release women, kids, breaking deal * Hamas claims only soldiers, former troops still being heldwww.timesofisrael.com
Why is Douglas Murray an asshole?They offered to release hostages as early as October 9th or 10th, in return for the IDF not entering the Gaza strip. But of course Bibi wanted his 35000+ lbs of flesh.
‘No doubt’ Netanyahu preventing hostage deal, charges ex-spokesman of Families Forum
Haim Rubinstein claims Israel rejected early Hamas offer to free all civilians if IDF didn't enter Gaza, lays out PM's alleged political meddling that led him to quit last monthwww.timesofisrael.com
Plus Doug Murray is an asshole anyway.
Murray has been accused of putting a socially acceptable face on fringe ideologies. In 2012, Arun Kundnani wrote in an article for Security and Human Rights that the "counterjihadist" ideology expressed by Murray and other conservative intellectuals was "through reworking far-right ideology and appropriating official discourse... able to evade categorisation as a source of far-right violence".[63] British writer Nafeez Ahmed argued in Middle East Eye that Murray's support for free speech in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo shooting and the January 2015 Île-de-France attacks was "really just a ploy for far-right entryism".[64] In 2019, an article in Social Policy Review described Murray's views as a kind of "mainstreamist" ideology that defies easy categorization as extremist while remaining "entangled with the far right".[65]
Murray has been described as promoting far-right conspiracy theories, including the Great Replacement theory,[66] the Eurabia conspiracy theory[67][10] and the cultural Marxism conspiracy theory.[12]
Did he say something you disagree with?Well, if I were to stomp on the guys head over and over again for decades, may be he will one day snap and kill my family. I'd have only myself to blame for it. What else can I expect?
But at the end of the day, whatever happened, Israel was put in a place to make that choice. They made the choice to deprioritize the hostages. So once you have deprioritized hostages, there is no use in talking about them.
I posted the criticism. He is a far right wing nut.
Repeating he's a right wing nut isn't really an argument. He must have said something you can point to that you disagree with.He is a right wing nut. Of course I disagree with what he stands for.
He's actually boots on the ground versus your boots in the closet....What do right wing nuts say? He rants about Muslims, immigrants, great white replacement theory, ultranationalist chauvinistic BS etc., Just google him and you will find tons.
Sounds like Israel should just end the occupation then so that Palestinians don't need to use violence to resist it.You are giving Hamas cart blanche to kill 1200 people. Take hundreds of hostages and then lay down terms for their return.
So some guy rapes your wife and kids. Takes them hostage, and then a day or so later offers to return them. " Slightly soiled" For which you should express no ire or seek to extract justifiable revenge. Funny how that wouldn't work in normal every day society. Seems reasonable enough the way you explain it.
How about ending apartheid and the occupation before any of this happened?So Israel should have just accepted the "truce" and said "no harm no foul" carry on chaps.
Did they?Did he say something you disagree with?
Anyway. They gave the Palestinians what they wanted. Oslo Peace Accord. As somebody pointed out. In no time at all, under his leadership Gaza walked in lockstep with all it's neighbors. Corruption. Extortion. Torture. You know. The usual Islamic paradise.