Israel proves that they can fight and also that they can listen and hear.
Will Hamas be as accomodating and return the hostages they took from Israel?
Will the hearts of those that insist Israel must play by all the rules while Hamas need play by none change for Israel?
“Will Hamas be as accomodating and return the hostages they took from Israel?”
People in the West like to call it Hamas, meaning we view it as a hierarchical organization with a leader. There may be an org chart. There might be someone who is called the leader. But Hamas is a word meaning a crowd-sourced organization that has some overarching funding and supply apparatus. The guy called the leader can say this or that, but he generally can’t force anyone to do what he says. At most he can choose to supply someone or fund someone, but they don’t consider him a leader unless it’s to their temporary advantage. Given this, it’s really not possible for someone in the Hamas apparatus to force anyone to give up their hostages. The West doesn’t want to grasp this because it means letting even one Palestinian into their country as they are wont to do, means they are importing a crowd sourced terrorist or a terrorist supporter.