U.S. President Joe Biden said on Tuesday he is engaged in daily discussions to secure the release of hostages held by the Hamas militant group and believes it will happen.
I think that Netanyahu’s rhetoric has been clear that the hostages are not the his primary concern. His focus is on eliminating Hamas entirely. I don’t disagree that releasing the hostages needs to happen if there’s to be any hope of a deescalation, but I think it’s a longer road to the conflict ceasing than Hamas doing what they should’ve done as soon as Israel retaliated.
I mean, I think anyone paying close attention knows that the administration’s real priorities are expansion, though luckily I think there’s enough visibility and blowback that they have hopefully walked that back internally.
Going after Hamas as an organization is probably better done with a long term and more refined strategy than short term leveling half of Palestine.
I’m very curious what’s going to happen now that they are raiding the hospital.
That you had US intelligence publicly agree that it’s a center of operations for Hamas, footage of combatants firing RPGs from near the hospital, then a few hours ago Biden is all like “we’re coming for you hostages” and now there’s a very risky ground operation going into the hospital…
While I’m too cynical to hope for actual good news, I do think the next few hours will be very enlightening.
I think that Netanyahu’s rhetoric has been clear that the hostages are not the his primary concern. His focus is on eliminating Hamas entirely. I don’t disagree that releasing the hostages needs to happen if there’s to be any hope of a deescalation, but I think it’s a longer road to the conflict ceasing than Hamas doing what they should’ve done as soon as Israel retaliated.
I mean, I think anyone paying close attention knows that the administration’s real priorities are expansion, though luckily I think there’s enough visibility and blowback that they have hopefully walked that back internally.
Going after Hamas as an organization is probably better done with a long term and more refined strategy than short term leveling half of Palestine.
I’m very curious what’s going to happen now that they are raiding the hospital.
That you had US intelligence publicly agree that it’s a center of operations for Hamas, footage of combatants firing RPGs from near the hospital, then a few hours ago Biden is all like “we’re coming for you hostages” and now there’s a very risky ground operation going into the hospital…
While I’m too cynical to hope for actual good news, I do think the next few hours will be very enlightening.