I was just pointing out why your post indicated support to the ongoing genocide being committed in The Gaza Strip by the Nation of Israel.
"If they free the hostages, we will stop murdering innocent children hourly".
How about they stop murdering innocent children, then dialogue can be opened to free the hostages?
Negotiation implies a certain degree of trust in the best of times. It's particularly fraught when the deal is something now (hostages) for something later (security guarantees). It's not a coincidence that the demands of, say, airline hijackers always involved things now (cash, release of prisoners) rather than things later. Everyone concerned knows that, even if the hijacking succeeds, the demands are met and the hijackers release the hostages, the manhunt begins the moment they release the hostages. Their leverage is gone.
The Israelis have now burned their bridges with the Palestinians, bombed them into the river, then hit them with nukes like they were hardened nuclear silos, just to make sure. The only thing the Israelis have to give now is Palestinian prisoners. Hamas will discount the value of any other promises the Israelis make right down to zero, because they will believe the Israelis will always renege, and why not? The Israelis have abrogated all the promises of Oslo and probably half a dozen other major multilateral treaties already. Might as well sign a trade treaty during the Japan Inc. era and expect them to comply with its provisions, while you're at it.
What I see here is the Israeli government writing off a couple hundred citizens as a
casus belli.
