No one said or suggested they can’t do thart again. It’s saying Israel doesn’t want to cooperate.
I don’t want to believe Hamas straight away but Israel is the one with the track record of lies.
My point is, why does it matter if Israel cooperates or not? There’s many places to release the hostages to that aren’t Israeli.
So this press release, and the implication of it, looks like straight propaganda based on a lie.
Why does it matter if Israel, whose citizens and visitors are hostages, responds to a request to release the hostages?
Give me a break. Israel always gets absolved in everything doesn’t it.
Yeah it could be propaganda but your reasoning is really deficient here.
I’m sorry you think that way. I am genuinely pro-Palestinian freedom. Antiapartheid. But I’m not going to take propaganda at face value. We have to critically think about all the data we’re getting.
Hamas saying they are unable to release two hostages is false on the face of itself. To claim that they are unable to release hostages because of Israeli resistance is also demonstrably false. We both agree, in this very conversation, the Hamas could drop off anybody they want to the Red Cross at any time. The fact that they’re unwilling to do that, and blame Israel, demonstrates this is a false propaganda narrative.
This is not a dichotomy, you’re not pro-Hamas or pro Israeli. There’s more positions to that. Both of the belligerent military forces here have demonstrated themselves to lie constantly. We can dislike both of them and still want Palestinian freedom, and the end of apartheid.
But if my logic is incorrect, please help me understand my logical errors here.
Internally, Netanyahu can’t afford to reject any semi reasonable offer. He also wants to be able to say he did anything positive. He’ll hopefully be crucified no matter what, but in his eyes nothing is his fault and he’s working hard at getting points for any achievement and blaming everything and anyone in the past millenia.
