Yeah, Slow Tony, you might want to re-read the Old Testament. Israel has the obligation to neuter their immediate threats.
“Israelis were dehumanized in the most horrific way on October 7th,” Blinken said. “The hostages have been demonized every day since. But that cannot be a license to dehumanize others.”
This statement deserves to be picked apart a bit. First note the change from “dehumanized” to “demonized”, so that Blinken is not saying the hostages were “dehumanized” after October 7th. And yet we see that Hamas has sold some of the hostages to Muslim warlords thousands of kilometers away from Gaza.
Apparently selling prisoners of war as slaves is within the bounds of humanitarian civility according to the US Secretary of State and any members of the international community that are on board with him.
In addition it might make sense to look into the treatment of the hostages in the months up to the present. This may imply that the hostages, and additionally the Israeli people, are continually being treated in dehumanized fashion by the Hamas terrorist government. To make this case may require additional efforts.