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

Garbanzo@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Hereforpron2@lemmynsfw.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s sorta classic supervillain logic. Doing terrible things just so someone else will have to do them too and in doing so “reveal” that they are “equally” monstrous. Israel has had some super fucked up policy for a long time, and I’m not defending that, but the approach of provoking them by committing your own war crimes knowing that it will lead to this much civilian suffering on all sides is even more fucked up.

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  • Garbanzo@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think it’s more desperation than logic

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  • 520@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Hamas already knows how they're considered elsewhere. They know they're basically a terrorist group. A government that acts like terrorists is what they want the world to see

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• zzzz@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s something I hadn’t thought of.

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