Remember when the war was supposed to end when all the hostages were released?
I wonder what all the people who told me that the objective of this war was to free the hostages are going to tell me now?
But khamaaas just needs to hand over the hostages and the war will end! The ZioBots have been screaming this for the last 8 months it must be true! Surely they wouldn’t gaslight people into saying this was never said!
For anyone interested, Wikipedia has a page on the current hostage situation and some history.
According to Wikipedia, one of the “deals” Hamas has offered Israel was that Isreal release all Palestinian prisoners. That would be thousands of prisoners in exchange for hostages Hamas took on the 7th of October.
Why are you using prisoners for one and hostages for the other?
From the Wikipedia page I linked to:
Hamas has offered to release all hostages in exchange for Israel releasing all Palestinian prisoners.
Wikipedia containing israeli propaganda? What a surprise!
One group are prisoners and one group are hostages
Which one 3 week old sockpuppet account?
Not sure who you were listening to, but I seem to remember from the beginning that one of Israel’s stated goals was to remove Hamas from power. The hostages getting released was a condition for any pauses or ceasefires.
Many israelis only recently discovered that Hamas offered a hostage exchange since the very beginning.
Their true goal is to erase Palestine period. Hamas could be removed tomorrow, hostages freed and that wouldn’t stop them. They would say the new regime is “backed by Hamas” or “contains remnants of Hamas” or is “influenced by Hamas” and they’ll continue. Until the international community condemns them completely for this, they will continue to their true goal.
Condemns? No they give a shit what says in public, as long as they’re receiving the weapons and money they need to carry on.
US aid accounts for about 15% of the Israeli military budget. They can carry on without it, unfortunately.
Source? Every report in the last 6 months contradicts your claim.
Most of the aid—approximately $3.3 billion a year
Do you need me to explain why you are incorrect or do you already know?
Presumably you’re going to talk about additional aid sent since Oct 7th.
My counter-argument would be that there are more inexpensive ways to kill Palestinians than using expensive munitions, that are well within Israeli capability to attempt.
Regardless, the point of the article is Israel doesn’t need us, so we should start backing out now. Just don’t expect that to magically stop Netanyahu, who can just switch to lower-tech warfighting.