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#Hamas today released further 13 hostages, most of which are children, including two 4 years old.

While some hail Hamas for apparently being the most merciful and humanitarian hostage-taker in the world, let that sink in: you've got adult men and women who take 4 years old kids as hostages...

Collage of the hostages released today
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@kravietz 🦇
Also:
you've got adult men and women who (in retaliation to above) bomb the city, resulting in the deaths of many 4-year-old children....
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@miklo

I'm not in a position to advocate for Israeli armed forces operations, so I can only reiterate the question I originally asked to Freemo.

It's 7 October and you wake up in Israel to the barrage of Hamas rockets and their fighters slaughtering civilians in their houses. What would be your response and what would you do differently being on the place of Israel?

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flere-imsaho
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“not be a fucking bibi netanyahu who bet on hamas for decades” would be probably the best answer, perhaps “act on credible intelligence you had” would be useful too; other than that, it's pure whataboutism on your part, and i quite enjoy (not) watching you stan for collective punishment just because it's israel doing it. (and knowing how incensed you'd be if it were the russians.)
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@flere-imsaho @kravietz 🦇
I'm not far from assuming that this has been the plan of the far right that has been in power in Israel for years: "breed" Hamas in the Gaza Strip in order to first politically divide the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank and then patiently wait (ignoring intelligence) for something similar to what happened on October 7 to have a sufficient excuse to raze Gaza to the ground. We'll see in a few months if that's how it ends.
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