That tends to happen after a WW2-level mass bombing and starvation campaign, yeah. Of course, the IOF already knew that. This was never about hostages.

[–] FriendBesto@lemmy.ml 30 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Of course it never was. It was about optics positioning, glorified manipulative marketing for the normies and idealogues. To claim to not want to be bombing them back to the stone age and to drive them out.

There was a leaked intelligence paper/memo weeks ago that essentially showed that their entire master plan was to kick them, the Palestinians out of Gaza. Hoping some other country would take them. That is why they were pushing them south too.

[–] lemmyseizethemeans@lemmygrad.ml 17 points 7 months ago

Hannibal doctrine ain't got time for hostages