Would Israel get their hostages back in this cease-fire agreement?
Yes. Hamas wouldn't get all of theirs back.
No.
Wait, which agreement were you looking at? The Qatari proposal releases all the Israeli hostages during the second of three phases.
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It isn't even a realistic effect in the thumbnail
Welcome to the party, pal
Is Israel government and military deranged enough to think they can go forward on their own?
Seems that way
I suspect that in usual fashion, when that approach blows up and they get shit all over them, it'll be everyone else's fault that it happened that way
I'm gonna exit this conversation now
If only there were a process where some third party could vouch for their credentials while keeping them anonymous
Or, with equal validity, I could say they could include Merrick Garland and Jonathan Meyer.
You're implying that they're probably anonymous because they're nobodies, as opposed to because they're doing exactly what's the standard thing to do when you have an issue with what your employer the United States Govt is doing.
You're also comparing them to music professors speaking on climate change, when professors have tenure specifically because of this exact issue, so they can speak publicly on controversial issues without being fired for it if they cross someone powerful. Since these people don't have that protection, I'm inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt that the reason they're anonymous is because they want to be able to tell the truth without being fired, and they're using the exact mechanism built into our society for doing that.
Oh, come on. You know this isn't from the damn music department. They actually went out of their way to indicate what were the credentials of the specific sources they talked to.
a DOJ attorney
a DHS attorney
A State Department staffer with more than two decades of policy experience, including in foreign assistance in the Middle East
There's a long history in journalism of people speaking the truth -- and being willing to identify themselves to the media (as here) -- to prove what they're saying is legit, while still keeping their identity a secret from the public / from their bosses, so they can't be punished. Seems okay to me.
People hating on you, but you're right.
Tesla the company has gotten progressively undermined by Musk in his time leading it, to the point that the cars are now kind of crappy... but it's still a hell of a lot better than driving a gasoline car. "How dare you expand into our forest and make more electric cars" is a fairly non sensible stance for pro-climate people to take.
Also, the car industry hates Tesla and actively works to make life as difficult as possible for them, at least in the US (e.g. making Tesla dealerships de facto illegal in a lot of states). Saying Tesla is just an arm of the auto industry is very weird.
Hamas must be deposed for meaningful safety
Likud materially supports Hamas, in my opinion specifically because of their propensity for violence that was useful to Likud's goals of sabotaging the peace process.
- Increasing the violence and repression as a solution to terrorism hasn't been working for decades in Israel; it's unlikely that doing more of it would suddenly start working now
- Your whole premise that Netanyahu is aiming to increase the safety of the Israelis is totally at odds with his actual behavior
Yeah. It doesn't take this army of super sophisticated technology to overcome Hamas's souped-up mortars and the occasional rock. Diplomatic support and UN vetoes is where the US really can make a difference, and does.