Why won't Hamas release all the hostages ?

[marble falls]

35. Why won't Netanyahu stop the war and talk to Hamas himself. He certainly wasn't shy around Hamas ...

... in the past.

He made a deal with Hamas and degraded the PLO.


https://www.thenation.com › article › world › why-netanyahu-bolstered-hamas
Why Netanyahu Bolstered Hamas | The Nation
Dec 11, 2023The ongoing Israeli assault on Gaza has been singularly useful to prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu in sidelining popular anger at his government's numerous failings. The massive protests ...

https://www.timesofisrael.com › for-years-netanyahu-propped-up-hamas-now-its-blown-up-in-our-faces
For years, Netanyahu propped up Hamas. Now it's blown up in our faces
Oct 7, 2023Most of the time, Israeli policy was to treat the Palestinian Authority as a burden and Hamas as an asset. Far-right MK Bezalel Smotrich, now the finance minister in the hardline government and ...

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A Brief History of the Netanyahu-Hamas Alliance - Haaretz
Oct 20, 2023Oct 20, 2023. Much ink has been spilled describing the longtime relationship - rather, alliance - between Benjamin Netanyahu and Hamas. And still, the very fact that there has been close cooperation between the Israeli prime minister (with the support of many on the right) and the fundamentalist organization seemingly evaporated from most ...

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The Gaza War Shattered All Assumptions, Leaving Israel ... - Haaretz
1 day agoThe fundamental beliefs that led Israeli policy for years collapsed on October 7 and still haven't been replaced, the result being that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is threatening to spread across the Middle East - and perhaps beyond ... While Netanyahu believed in the power of the schism between the PLO and Hamas and between the ...

https://www.nytimes.com › 2023 › 12 › 10 › world › middleeast › israel-qatar-money-prop-up-hamas.html
How Israel Secretly Propped Up Hamas - The New York Times
Dec 10, 2023Dec. 10, 2023. Leer en español. Just weeks before Hamas launched the deadly Oct. 7 attacks on Israel, the head of Mossad arrived in Doha, Qatar, for a meeting with Qatari officials. For years ...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk › world-news › 2023 › 10 › 16 › how-benjamin-netanyahu-empowered-hamas
How Benjamin Netanyahu empowered Hamas... and broke Israel
Oct 16, 2023This flawed strategy turned Hamas from "a minor terrorist group into an efficient, lethal army with bloodthirsty killers who mercilessly slaughtered innocent Israeli civilians", said Mr