Comment on Honest question: what was Hamas' long-game with respect to kidnapping Israelis? Did they think Israel would just negotiate rather than retaliate?

DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Ziggurat@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Wouldn’t it be the other way around ? Hostage means that you nced to open some negociation for their release. And that a military intervention would put them at risk.

  Israel used to do prisonner exchanges,

  source

  • DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s not what’s happening though.

    Regardless, hostages require at least negotiation. They could execute a few hostages to provoke israel further.

    source