[Jonty30]

They will let the hostages die when that happens.

[Ancesthntr]

“They will let the hostages die when that happens.”

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First, we don’t know how many are alive right now - though the Israelis are probably within a few in terms of knowing how many were kidnapped.

Second, those there are undoubtedly being raped, tortured, not fed very much, etc. IOW, they are suffering.

Third, Hamas NEVER had any intent to return them. They took them to use as leverage to get their own prisoners released, but with Bibi in charge they had to know that this wasn’t going to happen.

Sadly, tragically, those hostages are effectively dead already - though all reasonable efforts should be made to rescue as many as can be located. But the destruction of Hamas must continue apace. They CANNOT be allowed to survive as an intact organization, just as the Nazis, Fascists and militaristic Tojo regime could not be allowed to survive WW2...and that conflict involved a lot of civilian casualties, even putting aside the purposeful atrocities of those regimes. To fail to fight evil tyrannies because they could kill more people is to guarantee not merely their success, but MUCH more death because they remain in power.

Hamas delenda est!

[frank ballenger]

RE: They will let the hostages die when that happens.

My first thought. One of the many technothrillers I’ve read had a scene of some abandoned WWII tunnels uncovered in the 1980s with corpses of American POWS who had been tortured by the Japanese.