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| Troops from the IDF’s Golani Brigade inside Gaza’s parliament building in Gaza City, November 13, 2023 |
From The Times of Israel comes this story about hostage negotiations:
Hostage deal, even if it fails, shows Hamas’s desperation by Haviv Rettig Gur
This line caught my eye:
As any aspiring gangster knows, there’s a tipping point to extortion when the cost of avoiding violence rises past the cost of the violence itself, when the victim’s incentives flip from payment to vengeful defiance.
I hope Israel follows through with their plan to eliminate Hamas.
OK eliminate Hamas, then what? bring back the old Palestinian authority?
ReplyDeleteAfter living in what's basically a concentration camp for 20 years with shaky water, food and electricity supplies. Plus not being able to travel or access the ocean. A million people jammed in that small area with only something like 50,000 or so work permits, it's easy to see why they will follow anyone showing strength even knowing it won't end well.
Same as the Indians in North America, they fought a losing battle but they prefered to lose everything in battle as opposed to let it be taken away.
In my wildest imagination I can't see solution other than a divorce or making them sit in separate corners.