• jet@hackertalks.com
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    1 year ago

    It’s not simple. But it does demonstrate hamas is lying about their willingness to release two hostages no strings attached.

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      1 year ago

      again you’re oversimplifying things, with these black and white statements. extremely dangerous, extremely…

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        1 year ago

        How are they not lying? If they want to release two hostages they have a variety of options that don’t involve Israel. They could drop them off at the Egyptian border, they could drop them off at the Red Cross, they could drop them off at any of the UN compounds.

        They’re unwillingness to release two hostages is completely on them. For them to try to blame Israel is disingenuous, and clearly a lie.

        But I’m open to being wrong, how is Hamas prevented from releasing two hostages right now? What prevents them from dropping them off at the Red Cross or any of the UN compounds right now today?

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          I think that trying to rationalize the behavior of two xenophobic, nationalist, religious fundamentalist far right parties it’s just a sterile exercise, often practiced (can’t rightly say if that’s your will, too) to leave out of the discourse one of these two parties, to implicitly side with one of them. that’s all I have to say. have a good day

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            Have a good day.

            I think we’ve demonstrated conclusively hamas’s lying at least about this.

            Israel’s lying about many things as well, but that’s not what the articles about.

            I welcome you to show me where my logic is incorrect any time in the future when you have the bandwidth.

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            1 year ago

            That site blocks my country. So I can’t read the article.

            But yes everything in Gaza has danger. But they could publicize the fact that they’re dropping off at the Red Cross, post a video, live stream it, whatever. It would show the willing and it’s not dependent on Israel

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              That site blocks my country. So I can’t read the article.

              Here’s the first 2 sentences.

              The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) confirmed Wednesday that five staffers were killed in armed hostilities in Israel and the Gaza Strip.

              “Today, in two different incidents, ambulances were hit killing four Palestine Red Crescent paramedics who were helping those in need,” IFRC said in a statement.

              I understand it’s not the whole article but please try to extrapolate with the information given

              Edit: Or like… you could def read enough from that URL that you could google it yourself if you actually cared…

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                Yes. I agree. It’s a war crime. It’s terrible. But it has nothing to do with Hamas releasing hostages. They could release them to the UN, or the Red Cross. The incumbent danger of the war zone doesn’t change. They could get the credit for releasing the hostages even if a bombing later destroys the Red Cross building.

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                  1 year ago

                  They could get the credit for releasing the hostages even if a bombing later destroys the Red Cross building.

                  You’re not giving an honest answer. How can you release a hostage to somewhere that isn’t safe? Why not just release them inside Gaza 2 minutes from the building where their being held? What if they get attacked on the way to release the hostage?

                  Your answer is cute and works for middle school dodgeball but doesn’t work in a world where governments actively engage in disinformation campaigns

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                    1 year ago

                    They have the options of releasing hostages. They could live stream the entire thing. They could bring a reporter along. They could demonstrate their intention.

                    And yes there’s active bombings, but the probability is they would be able to make it to a UN compound, or the Red Cross.

                    The fact that they were able to release two hostages I believe it was yesterday, through the Red Cross, demonstrates they can.

                    I only take issue with the fact that they said they were unable to release hostages without Israeli support. Clearly that’s not true, as they demonstrated yesterday by the release of two hostages to the Red Cross