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“I have ordered a complete siege on the Gaza Strip. There will be no electricity, no food, no water, no fuel, everything is closed,” Gallant said. “We are fighting human animals and we are acting accordingly.”

  • ???OP
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    11 year ago

    Okay, but for the sake of this example, imagine you are Hamas and have changed your mind, what would be step 1?

    • BaroqueInMind
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      1 year ago

      Step 1 is to accept your demise. The West will no longer tolerate your version of your beliefs because they are incompatible with the rest of the world’s status quo; a certain version of Islam that hypocritically hates the West but enjoys all the products they produce (including cultural like Hollywood action films), but also wants to destroy it and have something akin to what the Taliban have.

      Women deserve bodily autonomy and the right to exist as a man or love another woman. Hamas version of Islam hates that way more than regular Islam or even the Catholics and Jews do.

      • ???OP
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        11 year ago

        Okay, but let’s say your step 1 is what you would do if you didn’t want to accept your demise (because I don’t think this choice is one that anyone would really take).

        • BaroqueInMind
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          21 year ago

          If I were Hamas, my existence is at stake. So I would be brutally fighting for my life in the most savage way possible, taking hostages, fighting dirty, and killing indiscriminately so as to demoralize them and destroy them as much as possible.

    • Frigorific
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      11 year ago
      1. Contact Isreal and negotiate a surrender that would involve at minimum releasing all hostages and turning over any and all war criminals involved in the planning and execution of the massacres.

      That is not something Hamas would ever consider though so we are just in the realms of fantasy at this point.

      • ???OP
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        01 year ago

        So if Hamas “surrenders” to Israel, how is this going to stop Israel’s daily oppression of Palestinians? What would Israel have to give back to Hamas?

        • Frigorific
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          11 year ago

          It would stop the ground invasion that is about to happen.

          Isreal is not going to give anything to Hamas after the massacres this week. That is no longer an option.

          • ???OP
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            01 year ago

            Israel has had options for so long and have waited for this moment to say they are out of options so they had to cut water off 2 million people of which one quarter of a million are now homeless and displaced.