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Garioshi posted...

If they cared about the hostages, they were handed them on a silver platter.

Again: are you insane? You just casually allow a terrorist cell to kill over a thousand people and walk away without consequences because they took hostages?

There is literally no way you are arguing in good faith. Literally any nation on earth would be in up in revolution if their government accepted a hostage deal like that. You are basically waving a green flag for every rogue faction to do whatever the hell it wants to you as long as they keep some hostages each time. You are also assuming good faith from fucking HAMAS, you know, the terrorist organization that has no political accountability since it's not a national government, with absolutely no history of honoring ceasefires, with a mission statement of annihilating your entire nation.

Israel could viably try to negotiate from that offer towards "We also want total disarmament" (although they'd never get it and thus negotiations would just be a waste of time in an urgent situation), but just taking a hostage deal in exchange for no response to an attack of that scale is so absolutely irresponsible that even the most peace-loving governments would be unable to take it.

Like if this was a hostage negotiation over abducting a bus of people in the West Bank or something, then it's absolutely on the table for Israel to accept demands for their release. But no nation can just not respond after such a massive breach of public safety.