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Netanyahu: destroying Hamas more important than hostages

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.

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It was NEVER about saving the hostages, just an excuse for genocide.

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Netanyahu: destroying Hamas more important than hostages

Hatred of Bibi, Israel, and Jews aside, that is a completely rational take.

Government negotiation with terrorists
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.
en.wikipedia.org

Buying 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.

#1 | Posted by censored at 2025-05-01 02:02 PM | Reply

"Destroying Hamas"

You will never destroy Islamic Resistance.

Nor would you want to.

Without Hamas, there's no "Security" need to ethnically cleanse Gaza and the West Bank.

#2 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-01 02:08 PM | Reply

"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.

#3 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-01 02:15 PM | Reply

What chutzpah for Beelzebub Smotrich to announce kicking out all the Palestinians while Israel is on trial at the Hague for genocide. And everybody knew that Netanyahu could have released any of the THOUSANDS of Palestinian captives in IDF prisons to get the hostages freed. Likud just want wanted an excuse to exterminate the Gazans and keep Netanyahu's corruption trial in abeyance.

#4 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-05-01 02:45 PM | Reply

Let's play the AIPAC blame game we hear from some Democratic apologists for Israel: "See! They should have voted for Kamala!" or "Is this better for them?" or "They tilted the election for Trump!" Uh-huh, all 2.1 million Arab-Americans did that, 25% of whom are of Lebanese descent, and not all of them are of voting age.

Distract. Deny. Deflect.

The ethnic cleansing of Palestinians was going on for decades regardless of whether a Democrat or a Republican sat in the White House.

#5 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-05-01 03:02 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

[The Muslims are always blameless]
#5 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS

#6 | Posted by censored at 2025-05-01 03:24 PM | Reply

Unless they didn't vote for Harris.

Then it's all their fault.

#7 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-05-01 03:35 PM | Reply

Clearing the beach for resort hotels is more important than human life

#8 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-05-01 03:53 PM | Reply

' Destroying Hamas will tend to reduce the number of hostages the formerly living terrorists will take in the future."
#1 | Posted by censored

Tell me how that's worked out for you Zionist ----- for the past 90 years?

#9 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-05-01 04:03 PM | Reply

Tell me how that's worked out for you Zionist [fudges] for the past 90 years?
#9 | Posted by LegallyYourDead

You seem to be making all sorts of assumptions. But I think most will agree that dead terrorists take fewer hostages than living terrorists.

But allowing Palestinians to have free rein in Israel is an interesting thought experiment. Jew-haters should try to contain their drool as they imagine the results, or mop the floor thereafter.

#10 | Posted by censored at 2025-05-01 04:17 PM | Reply

"But I think most will agree that dead terrorists take fewer hostages than living terrorists."

Oct 7 paints a different picture.
The most Jews killed in a single day since The Holocaust.
And you're taking a Victory Lap with Netanyahu for that failure!

#11 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-01 04:27 PM | Reply

Destroying Hamas= Killing everyone or driving them out as penniless refugees.

---- Bibi. ---- Israel. ---- their "Right to Exist".......

Did Nazi Germany have a "Right to Exist"?

Violence is their "Right". Only that...Successful Violence and Nothing Else.

And by Violence they Will Fall.

#12 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-05-01 05:20 PM | Reply

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