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Julie's avatar

And let's not forget that early in the hostage situation IDF killed three hostages that had managed to escape: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/3-israeli-hostages-tried-only-killed-military-rcna130912

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Shaun King's avatar

Indeed

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Susan Troy's avatar

There is something so incredibly, pathologically moronic and demonic about creating a desolation of living things to create peace. The stupidity of Hamas and Netanyahu's Israel is mind-boggling. Add in Donald Trump and his boasting about having created peace in the Middle East reads like the horror story it is. Lies, lies, lies. All for profit and gain. Somebody made a profit off of all those bombs. Somebody's stock went up every time another person's child was killed or maimed. Violence begets violence. It never solves anything. But the guns, the bombs, the tanks...they all make someone's portfolio grow. A better world is possible, but not with these lawless, bloodthirsty, and inept creeps in charge.

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Shaun King's avatar

Agreed

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Rosalind Dalefield's avatar

Hamas did not create that desolation. That is all on Israel.

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Mohamed Oraby's avatar

##expose_the_zioentity

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Fran Carbonaro's avatar

Israel’s military never gave a damn about the hostages. Or the scores killed on October 7th as part of the Hannibal directive.

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Michael Rawlins's avatar

I doubt the IDF would have bombed the shit out of Gaza, if Netanyahu's son, or any other member of Netanyahu's cabinet sons, had been taken hostage on October the 7th.

Mind you, that probably never happened, as they were probably told to stay away from the musical festival by their fathers, who probably knew what Hamas was planning to do.

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Michael Rawlins's avatar

The IDF are saying it's likely the bombs killed the hostages. What absolute bullshit. I'd like to see how many of their generals would survive the equivalent of 13 Hiroshima bombs dropped all around and on top of them.

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Andrea Hunt's avatar

exactly. It's like if a school shooter takes kids hostage and you nuke the school...

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Marsha Gildin's avatar

Shaun, what you say is true. It is not rocket science....that, this is what bombs do. I appreciate your clarity and honesty. We all knew this, because, this is what bombs, munitions and violence do. What is most painful is that Israel NEVER prioritized the hostages and bringing them home. Israel prioritized war and the US funded it. Heartbreaking. PS. I hope you are healing well from your surgeries.

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Michael Rawlins's avatar

Bombing to save lives. That's a ridiculous statement. It's like saying "I'm pouring petrol on a fire to put it out. Preposterous.

And if the Israeli government & military were actually concerned about saving ordinary Israeli citizens lives, then they wouldn't have instigated the Hannibal directive on Oct 7th.

Meanwhile, Netanyahu's son, is escaping the draft, by working in California, I believe.

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Sérgio Moço's avatar

I don't understand how the body was kept for 2 years though. And also why the IDF didn't retrieve it in 2years since they had access to all of Gaza. Surely Hamas hasn't been carrying the body for 2 years, right?

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Julie's avatar

From what I read: Many bodies were buried underneath lots of rubble from those bombs. Probably took awhile to sift through that destruction.

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Susan Troy's avatar

God in Heaven, what barbarity. What calculated stupidity. What incalculable waste of life. For what?

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Ronald Reed's avatar

On top of all that — on top of Israel's utter indifference to the fate of the hostages, who were valued by the clique of Nazis who run Israel, if at all, for usefulness as props for hasbara (propaganda) — all of the hostages could have been retrieved alive, if not for the war criminals' blind, unreasoning hatred and racist contempt for Palestinians, and their blood-thirst for the latters' extermination (and greed to steal their land).

Hamas offered to release every hostage and POW, in return for Israel's not invading Gaza, on October 9th — two days after the the great prison escape and Al Aqsa Flood.

Netanyahu and his criminal gang turned them down flat. After all, they didn't want all the months and even years of meticulous planning that went into preparation for carrying out a Holocaust to go for nothing. Especially now that Donny the Drooling Dunce was in their pocket.

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Julie's avatar
5hEdited

Nobody wins in war. Everyone pays a price.

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Susan Troy's avatar

Agreed. There has to be a better way to resolve differences, and we'd better figure it out now.

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