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

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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,

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