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Originally Posted by Fuzz
That sounds to me like you are maybe coming around. Netanyahu doesn't want the hostages released, because it means releasing Hamas prisoners and losing whatever remaining sympathy there is to continuing. He'd have no choice but to stop once the hostages are out of the picture. And he doesn't want to stop. Which is why the farcical calls for Hamas to "release the hostages" are so silly.
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I am no fan of Netanyahu, but that is a major stretch, IMO. Yes, as politicians go, he is obviously thinking about keeping his power, and he has made many strategic mistakes such as appeasing the Orthodox Jews by focusing on West Bank instead of Hamas, but Obama didn't fund ISIS. He funded what became ISIS.
My opinion is the same it has been since day 1, and the same it has been with every other major conflict in that area involving Israel. There are actors working hard to keep things the way they are because it benefits them financially. Whether that is Hamas using the people in Gaza to suck Israel into a conflict they can't win, Israel politicians using the conflicts to avoid needing to give Palestine anything, Egypt building a massive border wall to keep innocent Palestinians out while allowing Hamas to pass through tunnels underneath, or Saudi Arabia playing both sides to keep Iran weak. Nothing is going to change while everyone works for their own benefit.
The outage here needs to start focusing on all the hypocritical organizations who have been funding this with direct money or with their hypocrisy with words. Start with the UNRWA and those fools at the ICC who all of a sudden woke up and realized Hamas is a terrorist organization while doing jack #### all the past 10+ years.