“Why Doesn’t Hamas Release The Hostages?”, And Other Reader Questions (Caitlin’s Newsletter, 2025-08-22)
https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/why-doesnt-hamas-release-the-hostages
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>> … Netanyahu has explicitly said that Israel’s attack will not end until Trump’s ethnic cleansing plan to permanently remove all Palestinians from the Gaza Strip has been accomplished. This is not about freeing hostages, this is about a land grab that Israel has been pursuing for generations.
>> It is of course true that the Israeli government doesn’t care about the hostages, but it’s not accurate to say the hostages aren’t a bargaining chip. Some 2.5 million Israelis are estimated to have filled the streets this past Sunday demanding that their government secure a deal to release the hostages — that’s a quarter of the nation’s population. Numbers like that amount to political pressure, even if the Netanyahu regime itself only cares about the land grab…
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So the answer is because hostages give leverage? And just how effective was that since the start of the conflict? I think releasing them would have been far more valuable in making clear that you want to stop the conflict, shift the blame and simply strip those that want to further the conflict from one of their key arguments. Has Hamas done anything of value for Palestinians or area they exclusively considering their own interests?
Because netenyahu said that he will continue the genocide after the hostage release and it’s no a conflict it is a genocide
As far as I know, all remaining “hostages” were on duty soldiers: unambiguously prisoners of war