Israeli PM said to have turned down proposal in early talks and continues to take tough line

  • @jesseaccountname@lemmy.world
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    802 years ago

    He just wants genocide. It’s infuriating seeing world leaders pretend they don’t get that so they can get what they want out of Palestinian deaths.

      • @Land_Strider@lemmy.world
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        12 years ago

        Hey, getting having a casus belli that can be passed around to buy you time to bomb a city long enough before someone intervenes, especially if you can’t singlehandedly deter many of the other armies to leave you alone, is a rare opportunity for small fish warmongers.

    • Cosmic Cleric
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      22 years ago

      casus belli

      casus belli /kā″səs bĕl′ī, kä″səs bĕl′ē/

      noun

      • An act or event that provokes or is used to justify war.

      • A matter or occasion of war; an excuse or a reason for declaring war: as, the right of search claimed by Great Britain constituted a casus belli in 1812.

      • An act seen as justifying or causing a war.

      (The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition)

    • @givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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      412 years ago

      He doesn’t give a shit about hostages.

      If he did, they wouldn’t be blowing up all of Gaza.

      If any die from IDF strikes, he’ll just say that Hamas killed them and use their deaths to justify more bombings.

    • @RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world
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      152 years ago

      Dude had a chance to stop the whole thing in its tracks and didn’t take it.

      This has always been about taking the land.

      • @Tavarin@lemmy.ca
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        -12 years ago

        Hamas has stated they will repeat attacks like Oct 7th until all Israel is wiped out, and you think they will honour a ceasefire and actually accept peace?

        Hamas only wants a ceasefire so they can regroup and rearm before attacking Israel again.

    • R0cket_M00se
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      32 years ago

      Before? Dude, radical islamic extremists have been calling us “the great Satan” for decades lol

      They hate us for our support of Israel and thousands of people have already died because of it.

      • burchalka
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        Nope, radical islamists hate US and anything that stands between them and dar-al-islam (world of Islam)…

  • ShroOmeric
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    He’ll rather kill them all with his own hands rather than stop the war. The moment genocide is over he’s next in line to get fucked. So long hostages. This is what you get for electing sociopaths I guess.

  • @shatal@lemmy.world
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    242 years ago

    At this point he doesn’t have a choice. Hamas offered to release about a dozen hostages for a ceasefire.

    The Israelis repeatedly declared that there won’t be any ceasefire without the release of all the hostages.

    If he accepts anything else he’s most likely to loose all control.

  • @A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
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    212 years ago

    Of course he did.

    The hostages are much more valuable to Israel in captivity, so they can continually exploit them for genocidal justifications.

    • @Genericusername@lemmy.world
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      52 years ago

      This is simply not true.

      There were talks about up to 15 hostages, of 239 in demand for 4 days of ceasefire. Hamas needs this ceasefire desperately to regroup and assess the damages. The chaos now serves Israel well and apparently it puts much more pressure on Hamas. The ground invasion proves very effective. Maybe as Hamas becomes more desperate the “price” for the hostages will drop. Alternatively, if Israel will allow them to regroup, the war will take significantly more time because it will be much harder to eradicate them. Maybe the Israelis know where the hostages are held and after a ceasefire the hostages will be transferred to a different hideout, or smuggled via the tunnels to Egypt and from there to who knows where.

      • @homura1650@lemmy.world
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        82 years ago

        Neutral and Israel alligned countries have been calling for a humanatarian pause on purely humanitarian grounds. Even if you don’t care about the hostages, that Hamas was willing to offer them means that they had an interest in such a pause as well; making Israel the only obstacle to it happening. That is to say, the severity of the humanitarian disaster in Gaza is squarly on Israel’s shoulders. The most charitable reading of the situation is that they have determined that the tactical advantage of blocking a humanitarian pause outways the civilian lives they put at risk by doing so.

        • ???OP
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          -12 years ago

          And even that charitable reading means they are committing collective punishment.

        • @Genericusername@lemmy.world
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          72 years ago

          Israel cares a whole lot about its hostages. Evidence for that are the prices they were willing to pay in the past.

          But sure, let’s go with your logic. Why can’t Israel just go carpet-bombing the crowded part in the south of the Gaza strip that all the refugees fled to? It would be a very effective way to eradicate them all. They are so crowded in such a small area that it’s possible to kill a couple hundred thousands in a single day. Wow, Israel has a lot to learn on how to ethnically cleanse a region.

          • @Microw@lemm.ee
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            12 years ago

            Netanyahu has been on confrontation with the families of the hostages for weeks now.

            • @Genericusername@lemmy.world
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              32 years ago

              This proves nothing. Of course there would be people who wish for any deal regardless of the conditions and it is not surprising that they will confront the government about it.

      • ???OP
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        The price of Hamas not “regrouping” is not worth committing genocide for.

  • BeautifulMind ♾️
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    202 years ago

    Of course he doesn’t want to de-escalate the situation.

    If he did that, things might calm down and fewer people will vote based on his promises of being strong on security. Also if he did that, his hard-right backers (who need a hot conflict to keep taking Palestinian land politically acceptable) will attack him for being ‘soft’ on security.

    The logic of it all is genocide of course, but Bibi wants that if the alternative is him being out of office and back in court defending himself against corruption charges.

  • BOMBS
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    112 years ago

    I think Netanyahu has a similar look about his eyes as Putin? It’s like they’re monsters inside and are communicating how little empathy and concerns for others they have inside, almost as a warning. Anyone else feel the same thing?

    • purplexed
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      122 years ago

      I think it’s the military training plus a little extra sociopath on the side.

  • @aidan@lemmy.world
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    92 years ago

    One source with knowledge of the talks, which slowed after the Israeli ground invasion, said a central point of discussion was a demand by the Israeli side for Hamas to provide a full list specifying the name and details of each person held in Gaza. The Israeli side was unwilling to cease bombardments without receiving this list.

    Hamas responded that it was unable to provide the list without a pause in the fighting, as the estimated 240 hostages were held by a number of different groups in places across Gaza. That suggested even Hamas leaders do not know for sure how many people are held captive, their locations or the number who have survived the bombardments.

    Another source said Hamas originally demanded prisoner exchanges, fuel and other supplies in return for the hostages, but these demands were dropped in favour of a halt to the airstrikes alone.

    “Each time the Israeli counter-demand got harder,” the source said. Members of Hamas have previously said they took hostages in order to exchange them for the thousands of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails.

    Sources briefed on the talks told Reuters that the group discussed allowing small amounts of fuel into Gaza for humanitarian purposes, which Israel has so far refused, as well as the deal to free a small number of hostages in exchange for a ceasefire of one or two days. The outcome of the talks, however, remained unclear.

    It sounds like these sources may be members of Hamas’ negotiating team, which I don’t exactly know that that’s a reliable source.

    • @Microw@lemm.ee
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      52 years ago

      It doesnt sound like complete BS that Hamas probably doesnt know the exact number, names and placement of hostages at the moment. They probably have a good idea but no definite list.

  • @Linkerbaan@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    When Putin was invading Ukraine everyone was calling for the Russians to just kill Putin. When Hamas invaded everyone was calling for the Palestinians to kill Hamas themselves.

    Awfully silent these days though now israel is the party committing war crimes.

    • @fosforus@sopuli.xyz
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      You don’t see the logical pattern here? This is about being against fascists like Putin and Hamas. Nobody is claiming that our side is filled with lawful good angels, only that the other side is mostly assholes whose main goal is to fuck everything up. Therefore it should be obvious who to root for.

        • @fosforus@sopuli.xyz
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          Hamas aren’t fascist.

          They are objectively by definition fascist, and as you defend them, you are defending fascists. You should be deeply ashamed of yourself.

          Are Ukrainians fascist to you?

          No. What kind of a fucked up question is that?

        • @Tavarin@lemmy.ca
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          -12 years ago

          Hamas aren’t fascist

          Hahahaha, hole hell that’s the dumbest shit I’ve heard in ages. Thanks for the laugh.

      • @Linkerbaan@lemmy.world
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        12 years ago

        You’re right I should have clarified. European and Americans which have always yelled that violence against politicians is never justified did a 180 on their morals when they didn’t like someone.

  • BombOmOm
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    42 years ago

    Considering it wasn’t a return of all of the hostages and additionally Hamas said they intend to repeat the terrorist attack that sparked this, what motivation does Netanyahu have to stop until Hamas is destroyed?

    • @dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de
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      202 years ago

      That Hamas did was abhorrent, as was the response of Israel.

      What motivation do Hamas have to just take the current occupation of Gaza and living in such a way? Genuinely curious.

      This just seems like nobody will win and everybody will suffer. For what?

      • @JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works
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        -82 years ago

        What motivation do Hamas have to just take the current occupation of Gaza and living in such a way? Genuinely curious.

        Less lives lost, even in the long term. We won’t know what would have been, but there may well have been a diplomatic solution that got Gazan independence. But Hamas is built on violence is the answer.

            • @Grimy@lemmy.world
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              22 years ago

              That’s a bit silly. Sentencing a whole population to “suffer forever” isn’t caring for them.

              It’s like you didn’t even read what he said.

              • @givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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                22 years ago

                Nah, I think people just didn’t get that I was saying the reason someone would view how Gaza was like before 10/7 as good, could only be because you only care about Israeli civilian deaths and not Palestinians.

                Explaining jokes kind of ruins them, but I guess in this case I overestimated people.

                • @Grimy@lemmy.world
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                  22 years ago

                  So your comment was sarcastic? (which kind of seems obvious in hindsight, woops)

                  I don’t really get your explanation to be honest and how what you said relates to that.

            • TheDankHold
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              142 years ago

              In the West Bank, with no Hamas presence, Israeli settlers backed by the IDF come kill them and take their homes. The Israeli leadership doesn’t want a two state solution because extreme Zionists are in power.

                • TheDankHold
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                  They went from occupation to siege. Not much improvement. I also wasn’t talking about Gaza so try to stay on topic.

              • @JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works
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                -32 years ago

                They weren’t in power when Hamas came to power. Both sides have been pushing each other towards wanting to annihilate each other. But do you think a two state solution would minimize the suffering, but is not a feasible outcome?

                • @deegeese@sopuli.xyz
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                  92 years ago

                  A two-state solution was viable before Israel settled people in the middle of the west bank.

                  As an intentional tactic of Zionist settlers, it is now impossible to have a defensible border.

                  The only way forward now is to end apartheid and give full rights to the civilians living in the West Bank and Gaza.

                  Zionists will claim this “destroys Israel” or other nonsense we heard from South African defenders of apartheid.

                • TheDankHold
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                  The Zionists I’m talking about funded and propped up Hamas. Likud is not younger than Hamas. You seem to have a very limited understanding of this.

            • ???OP
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              -12 years ago

              For the time being, and prior to cutover 7th, the two-state solution was either perpetually on hold or completely unworkable because of Israel (in both cases). Will it help stop the stuffing from moving on? Maybe if it’s implemented properly, yes.

    • Overzeetop
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      62 years ago

      Well, lucky for him he didn’t even entertain the ceasefire to see if he could have gotten them all back.

    • ???OP
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      -12 years ago

      The deal that went off was before that statement by Hamas.

        • ???OP
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          02 years ago

          Wanting an occupying force off the map shouldn’t come as a shock to anyone, since Israel should have never existed (I’m for a one joint state solution where Palestinians get freedom and rights too but it’s not too hard for me to understand Hamas’ “radical” idea).

  • @TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
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    42 years ago

    Globally, we’re going to need to develop approaches for de-radicalizing large groups of people. Even if we can start on the direction towards peace in this situation, both the Israeli and some segments of Palestinian people seem radicalized to the point of no return, where no true solutions is even possible. I see the same thing in the US with whatever tf you want to call the Republican party. They’re over the cliff. No pulling them back. Yet we need a way to de-radicalize these people otherwise there is no path forward.

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      You dont have to leave Israel and palestine to find more groups. Have you seen what kinds of people bibi is courting to stay in power? Ultra-orthodox far right netters who are publically asking for a cleansed ethno-state.