They won’t. They walked into this trap in a trance. They surrendered the momentum. Already the Qataris are pushing to extend the 4 days. 4 will become 7. Seven will become 14. It’s over.
The hostages were taken because Hamas knows damn well it is the West’s mortal and moral weakness to protect the lives of hostages. At any price. A grave strategic error Israel and the West continues to make in the face of attacks by an enemy having a 6th-century rage coupled with access to 21st-century warfare technology, all in service to the goal of world domination, and destruction of the West.
This is a global existentialist war, it is NOT an isolated criminal act to be dealt with using traditional state- sanctioned law enforcement rules and regulations, such as hostage rescue elevated to the highest good, because the West has always valued the sanctity of individual life, above all else.
No. The highest good, in this case, is to protect the viability of an entire nation from the existentialist threat this enemy represents. And western nations must be willing, at the end of the day, to pay the very high price that entails.
If Qatar is now admittedly harboring the head of the Hamas snake amidst a presumably indifferent Muslim population of its very own, it has forfeited the right to peaceful coexistence with the State of Israel and all other Western nations. It has become a belligerent and should be called out on that fact.
Ditto