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No Prisoners
Three of the six Israeli hostages who were discovered Saturday in a tunnel under Rafah could've been freed in a ceasefire deal negotiated in July.
That's according to an unnamed Israeli official who told Ynet that Israeli-American Hersh Goldberg-Polin was "on a list that Hamas had agreed to return" due apparently to his injured left arm, which was badly maimed by a grenade on October 7. Carmel Gat and Eden Yerushalmi, two Israeli women, were on the same list, the official said. "It could have
Sinwar is the prize kill until the next Sinwar takes his place, then what? This will never end. All I know is you have to give people hope for a better life for themselves and their children. And that is for both sides.
Yeah, Sinwar’s inevitable death isn’t going to bring any sort of closure to anyone.
Nice touch with the MAGA glow and devil’s horns-at-a-glance depiction of Netanyahu on the push notification!
Ha. That actually wasn’t intentional. I generally have two to four different banner images I consider for each article. That one was a vignette with a red-ish overlay. I didn’t mean to choose it for the push notification, but it went out anyway.
Quagmire with no observable end. No party has a path to victory, all victories are temporary. All parties understand this. Temporary peace is a time for licking wounds until the next wave of atrocities. That is is the best possible set of conditions in what passes for ‘normal’ in this region of the world.
No wonder thousands of citizens protest in the streets against non-acceptance of a temporary peace.
Netanyahu’s primary goal is not to rescue hostages. His primary goal is not even Israel’s safety and security.
Netanyahu’s primary goal will make Isreal less secure and the world a scarier place.
I see some green shoots emerging with the latest round of protests in Israel.
It just occurred to me that the single most important thing keeping Israel safe is the presence of Jerusalem and its holy sites. One giant rocket landing on the holy mount would make all three major religions very angry and very sad but it would erase a key symbol protecting the nation. No fixing that.