I pray I am wrong

[boston bean]

But hope for hostages is pretty grim. Israel is going to level Gaza. I do hope they try some extractions prior and are successful.

To think Netanyahu knew about this and let it happen is crazy talk. No way would have he allowed this had he known. He will be weakened by this.

Israeli hostages will most likely die and so won’t his political ambitions.

[onecaliberal]

1. I don't know if he knew either, but there are credible places reporting different countries warned

Netanyahu that something big was coming.

[Marius25]

4. I've seen reports that Egypt warned him and he ignored them, and that Egypt said they didn't.

So who knows what to believe right now.

[BlueCheeseAgain]

15. Most big operations are preceded by warnings.

There were warnings about Pearl Harbor and 9/11, for example. And then conspiracy theories that FDR and GWB knew they were going to happen and then let them. My guess is that in almost every case, it was incompetence and not malice that caused people to ignore them.

[TexasDem69]

2. I think some hostages are American citizens

And maybe German and British as well? I feel like there’s going to be some sort of attempts to rescue them if they can determine locations.

Hamas is threatening to execute them and release videos of the execution, which seems like a rescue attempt is the way to go.

[Irish_Dem]

13. I think this is what Hamas wants.

To broaden the conflict to other countries.

They targeted a festival with people from all over.
Why?

[TexasDem69]

18. Mainly because they are Nazi fucks

But I suppose there could be a broader purpose

[Irish_Dem]

22. Stop and think. This was a big, very well thought out military and intel operation.

Planned to the smallest detail.

Blindsiding the US and Israel who possess the highest rated military and intel services.

They could have chosen any event and crowd to attack.
But they chose the festival with people from all over the world attending.

This is no coincidence. No coincidence at all.

Why do you think they did that?
Who does it benefit and how?

[Lovie777]

3. Miracles do happen...............

I hope for the best everywhere in the world where conflicts are. It's usually the innocent that dies, suffers the most.

[boston bean]

5. Me too. All the innocents. But in reality we know what happens a lot.

[roamer65]

6. Netanyahu is very capable of sacrificing the hostages for his political ambitions.

That’s the kind of human filth that he is.

[boston bean]

7. I am not sure it will be possible. And it's not because Netanyahu will do it

for personal political reasons. Yeah they guy is authoritarian. Bad leader. But loss of hostages does not help him at all.

[roamer65]

8. He's like Dump.

All about him.

[2naSalit]

9. +1

[roamer65]

10. ...

[2naSalit]

12. ...

[Sky Jewels]

14. Yep.

There's probably a video of that fucking criminal Netanyahu on a golf course a la Dubya: "Now watch this drive."

[Progressive dog]

11. Netanyahu traded over one thousand

prisoners for one Israeli soldier.

Hamas military leader Ahmed Jabari was quoted in the Saudi Arabian newspaper Al-Hayat as confirming that the prisoners released under the deal were collectively responsible for the killing of 569 Israelis.[7][8] The agreement came five years and four months after Palestinian militants captured Shalit in southern Israel along the Gaza Strip border.

The deal, brokered by Mossad official David Meidan through a secret back channel run by Gershon Baskin and Hamas Deputy Foreign Minister Dr. Ghazi Hamad authorized by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on one side and Ahmed Jabari, head of Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades on the other side.[9] The list of prisoners to be released (based on previous work conducted by German and Egyptian mediators and coordinated by Bundesnachrichtendienst agent Gerhard Conrad),[10] was signed in Egypt on 11 October 2011. Its first phase was executed on 18 October 2011, with Israel releasing 477 Palestinian prisoners and Hamas transferring Shalit to Cairo.[11] In the second phase, which took place during December 2011, another 550 prisoners were released.[12]

The agreement is, to date, the largest prisoner exchange agreement Israel has ever made and the highest price Israel has ever paid for a single soldier.[13][14] Gilad Shalit was also the first captured Israeli soldier to be released alive in 26 years.[15]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilad_Shalit_prisoner_exchange

[TexasDem69]

19. Whoa whoa whoa!

Don’t come in here with facts to kill the conspiracy theories.

[Walleye]

16. It's reminding me a little bit of the 1972 of Olympics Munich massacre

Not on the same scale, but the same tactic of surprise terror

[Seeking Serenity]

17. Israel may be contemplating its

Endlösung der Gaza Fragen.

[malaise]

20. Bibi is history

Take that to the bank

[milestogo]

21. Netanyahu is an asshole.

He will make things worse.