Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has described the victory over Hamas as a more important goal in the Gaza war than the return of the hostages, according to Israeli media reports on Thursday.
It was NEVER about saving the hostages, just an excuse for genocide.
Netanyahu: destroying Hamas more important than hostages
Hatred of Bibi, Israel, and Jews aside, that is a completely rational take.
Government negotiation with terroristsBuying the freedom of hostages will only encourage Palestinians to commit more atrocities and kidnap more hostages. Destroying Hamas will tend to reduce the number of hostages the formerly living terrorists will take in the future.
Most Western countries have a stated policy of not negotiating with terrorists. This policy is typically invoked during hostage crises and is limited to paying ransom demands, not other forms of negotiation. Motivations for such policies include a lack of guarantee that terrorists will ensure the safe return of hostages, and worries about the increasing incentive for terrorists to take more hostages in the future.
On June 18, 2013, G8 leaders signed an agreement against paying ransoms to terrorists. However, most Western states have violated this policy on certain occasions.
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"Most Western countries have a stated policy of not negotiating with terrorists."
Israel instead chose to elect the terrorists.
50,000 dead civilians, but it isn't terrorism.
200,000 civilians displaced and told they can never return, but it isn't ethnic cleansing.
We get it.
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich reiterates call for 'hundreds of thousands' of Palestinians to be forcibly displaced from Gaza
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Israel will only stop fighting when "hundreds of thousands" of Palestinians are forcibly displaced from Gaza and Syria is dismembered as a state, Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said on Tuesday.
"With God's help and the valor of your comrades-in-arms who continue to fight even now, we will end this campaign when Syria is dismantled, Hezbollah is severely beaten, Iran is stripped of its nuclear threat, Gaza is cleansed of Hamas and hundreds of thousands of Gazans are on their way out of it to other countries," Smotrich said during a speech in the occupied West Bank.
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