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GAZA/TEL AVIV, Nov 22 (Reuters) - Israel's government and Hamas agreed on Wednesday to a four-day pause in fighting to allow the release of 50 hostages held in Gaza in exchange for 150 Palestinians imprisoned in Israel, and the entry of humanitarian aid into the besieged enclave.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I don’t really know what Hamas and Haniyeh and Sinwar want

Are you serious? They want the complete destruction of Israel. Have you never read anything Hamas has put out?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think they might mean "want in an immediate sense". Even Hamas isn't deluded enough to think that they're capable of destroying Israel at this moment.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, but they knew exactly what the Israeli reaction would be, and that said reaction would end up providing a wave of freshly minted fighters.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yeah, but I mean, what is their goal now? Like, in the next few months kind of immediate, the kind of immediate that would cause them to accept a truce? Freshly minted fighters don't mean much if Israel gets away with ethnic cleansing, after all.

[–] Mrkawfee 6 points 1 year ago

Goal now is to get Israel to withdraw and use hostages to extract concessions including the release of kidnapped Palestinians in Israeli jails and humanitarian aid for beleaguered civilians. The military hostages are probably the highest value from a negotiation standpoint and will be kept the longest.

[–] Threeme2189 5 points 1 year ago

Rebuild all of their terror infrastructure and plan the next murder/rape/kidnapping of Israeli citizens.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's a handful of people that really don't want to acknowledge that

[–] jaybone -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

And these 150 prisoners are Hamas terrorists that will be exchanged for 50 innocent civilians.

So hamas will have more terrorists on their side to fan the flames for Netinyahu’s next response.

[–] neeshie 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They're Palestinian women and children, not terrorists. It's a trade of innocents for innocents

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

13 women mostly convicted of stabbings.

Edit: 33 women are on the list of 300 total, I counted the Hebrew source material myself. 15+ is of those with stabbing charges and convictions or general attempted murder.

Overwhelming majority of minors did fucked up shit.

https://www.gov.il/he/Departments/DynamicCollectors/is-db?skip=0

https://www.timesofisrael.com/palestinian-just-convicted-of-stabbing-her-neighbor-may-be-freed-in-hamas-deal/

[–] jaybone -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They are terrorists.

Israel didn’t kidnap them for no reason. Unlike what Hamas does.

Go vote for Trump and believe in fake news.

[–] neeshie 1 points 1 year ago

The over a thousand people held without charges would disagree with you. Are trusted human rights organizations fake news now?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I read the 2017 charter where Hamas says they will accept a 2 state solution

[–] steventhedev 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Do you mean this part:

  1. Hamas believes that no part of the land of Palestine shall be compromised or conceded, irrespective of the causes, the circumstances and the pressures and no matter how long the occupation lasts. Hamas rejects any alternative to the full and complete liberation of Palestine, from the river to the sea.

Or perhaps this part:

  1. Resisting the occupation with all means and methods is a legitimate right guaranteed by divine laws and by international norms and laws. At the heart of these lies armed resistance, which is regarded as the strategic choice for protecting the principles and the rights of the Palestinian people.

Oh wait, there's more:

  1. A real state of Palestine is a state that has been liberated. There is no alternative to a fully sovereign Palestinian State on the entire national Palestinian soil, with Jerusalem as its capital.

They define "Palestinian soil" earlier:

  1. Palestine, which extends from the River Jordan in the east to the Mediterranean in the west and from Ras Al-Naqurah in the north to Umm Al-Rashrash in the south, is an integral territorial unit. It is the land and the home of the Palestinian people. The expulsion and banishment of the Palestinian people from their land and the establishment of the Zionist entity therein do not annul the right of the Palestinian people to their entire land and do not entrench any rights therein for the usurping Zionist entity.

They have only 1 segment that even hints that they might accept a 2 state solution:

However, without compromising its rejection of the Zionist entity and without relinquishing any Palestinian rights, Hamas considers the establishment of a fully sovereign and independent Palestinian state, with Jerusalem as its capital along the lines of the 4th of June 1967, with the return of the refugees and the displaced to their homes from which they were expelled, to be a formula of national consensus.

Which is pretty hard to take at face as an acceptance of a two state solution when it literally says in the sentence before that that they reject any alternative other than "from the river to the sea" and in the sentence after completely reject the Oslo accords.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can you share a link? I've been looking for source documents like this.

[–] steventhedev 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Their 2017 Charter in English, translated and published by Hamas.

Their 1988 Charter is far more violent and basically lays out plans for an Islamic State in the region.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thank you my dude. These peeps are getting brainwashed by theocratic thugs. It's unreal how lefties are falling for this.

[–] Mrkawfee -2 points 1 year ago

Yes Israel paints them as Nazi Isis but it's more accurate to view them as the Viet Cong. They are fighting an anti colonial war.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This is so dumb and reductive, though.

First, that goal is like trying to drink the ocean. It's obviously impossible, so it's not useful as an indicator for what they'll agree to.

Second, we hear this over and over, but the only citation is their founding document over thirty years ago. And in 2006 they went through a moderate rebrand, and then a lot of people in the org died, and Sinwar spent two decades in Israeli prison, so... that doesn't really tell us where they're at in this moment.

Folks act like they're orcs. Just mindlessly evil. They're definitely completely ruthless, but the stuff they do isn't that different from what the IRA did, and they still made peace. So what does Sinwar want? Has anyone thought to ask?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks. I'm excited to hear it.