How Israel Pulled Off a High-Risk Hostage Rescue

[Beastly Boy]

46. If Israel eradicated Gaza, who is holding the hostages? Who is shooting at Israeli soldiers?

Who is firing rockets at Israel? How does the Hamas ministry of health get to issue fake casualty numbers? And why is humanitarian aid for hundreds of thousands of civilians necessary if Gaza had been eradicated? And if Gaza had been eradicated, why the need to work a solution with international partners?

I don't think "eradicated" means what you think it means.

Since their surprise attack, Hamas killed, raped, mutilated and abducted an estimated 1200 Israeli civilians. Hamas has the power to hold civilians, including Americans, hostage, use civilians as human shields, kill Israeli soldiers and civilians, steal humanitarian aid, hide their military assets among civilians, violate international laws and cease-fire agreements, reject a two-state solution and invade Israel again should IDF pull back. I have doubts about Netanyahu's intent to raze all of Gaza: if it was his intent, Gaza would have been razed by November 2023. How can YOU compare 1000 deaths to 30,000? Is this a numbers game for you? Would you have been as outraged if the 6,000 Hamas rockets reached their intended destinations in Israel's civilian centers in the first weeks of the war? By what standards do you have the cojones to call a 5,000 strong invading army that killed 1200 civilians "puny"?

And how do you propose Israel, who had already worked out a solution with international partners, drag Hamas to the negotiating table? I would love to see that happen, but evidently Hamas has other ideas.