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Hamas ‘death culture’ beyond comprehension, says founder’s son

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Twiglets1 · 24/08/2025 07:09

Hamas’s embrace of “death culture” is beyond comprehension for much of the world, Mosab Hassan Yousef, the eldest son of Sheikh Hassan Yousef, the founder of the terrorist group, told JNS on Tuesday.

“It is not just the West, it’s also the East. It is beyond understanding that some people are willing to sacrifice human life for political gains, or worse for financial gains. I am a living example of this. My father had to choose between his eldest son and the cause and he chose the cause,” said Yousef.

“There is no parent in the world that would go into a fight that would put their own children in harm’s way. Hamas did the opposite. They went and dragged Israel in the most brutal fight of our time, knowing children would pay the price. This shows you their hypocrisy,” he continued.

“It’s the same game with pro-Palestinians worldwide. Everybody cries for the children on one hand, and on the other they are pushing Palestinian indoctrination which leads to the death of children. And then when children die, they blame Israel,” he added.

www.jns.org/hamas-death-culture-beyond-comprehension-says-founders-son/

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PinkBobby · 05/09/2025 17:46

CaramelPecan · 05/09/2025 16:27

You seem to be badgering me to know about something I have already said I know nothing about and am not qualified to answer.

I see no logical reason for the GHF to lie about something they can easily get caught out on. The mainstream view of them is very negative because they are undermining the Hamas aid gravy train so anything to further discredit them would have been used by now.

I’m sure that Tony Aguilar ‘whistleblower’ liar liar pants on fire would have said something if he had anything.

Why not think about why you disbelieve them?

Have you bothered to look at their X feed to see how they have been received by Gazans?

https://x.com/GHFUpdates/status/1962177056806146535

Do you believe Hamas maths btw? If so, ask yourself why.

If the UN has 400 aid hubs why the actual fuck is thousands of tonnes of aid not being distributed instead of rotting in depots inside Gaza? Ask yourself that.

John Acree is who I was referring to.

https://x.com/GHFUpdates/status/1957826051393925467

He’s had death threats painted on the driveway of his home.

www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-864063

I’m asking you to just think logically about the numbers they are giving us and how that’s possible with the data they are providing. I’m not asking for any expertise or experience. Just questioning the info you’re being given by a potentially bias source. I don’t need to look at their X PR - their set up is totally inadequate.

And no, I don’t believe Hamas maths. With the amount of propaganda in this conflict, both Hamas and Israel info has to be questioned. So why not work out how many meals they need to hand out a minute to get to 1.5m a week when they’re open for 11mins (June) or maybe 40mins (July/aug) across 4 hubs.

The main stream negative view of them is not because they disrupted systemic looting by Hamas (that has zero evidence). People are against them for valid reasons:

  • militarising aid, putting civilians and workers at risk and setting a terrible precedent for future conflicts
  • deciding to work in Gaza even when the UN refused to work with them. Any decent org would put the needs of the people over their start up.
  • replacing 400+ hubs with 4
  • opening for an average of 11mins a day in July
  • opening for an average of just 40 mins in aug
  • providing less than one meal a day for less than the whole population when there is starvation
  • having zero experience in humanitarian aid (until, as you note JA appeared but not until July. They were given the job with no experience when people needed pros)
  • having a chair whose expertise are in PR not aid and backs Trump’s awful Rivera plan
  • they replaced an imperfect but fairly good system that actually fed people despite no one finding evidence of systemic looting of aid
  • their maths doesn’t add up - providing hundreds of thousands of meals in tiny windows of time.
  • making aid dangerous to access/not ensuring aid is easy and safe to access by placing hubs in evacuation zones

I’m sure there are more reasons others may flag but I do not understand why people don’t have an issue with GHF - they aren’t doing a good enough job and people are dying. I’m not condoning violence or aggression towards any member of the org but I will happily criticise them because they are failing and Palestinians deserve better (a comment I’m sure, based on your other posts, you’ll disagree with but some of us don’t think children at the very least should be starved for any potential crimes adults are committing).

CaramelPecan · 05/09/2025 16:27

PinkBobby · 05/09/2025 12:12

No - just do some maths and tell me how it’s physically possible to hand out that much food in that amount of time. Think about what info you’re being given.

The UN had, it turns out, over 400 hubs with longer opening hours. Maths adds up for them.

Are we talking about Trump Advisor Johnnie Moore?

You seem to be badgering me to know about something I have already said I know nothing about and am not qualified to answer.

I see no logical reason for the GHF to lie about something they can easily get caught out on. The mainstream view of them is very negative because they are undermining the Hamas aid gravy train so anything to further discredit them would have been used by now.

I’m sure that Tony Aguilar ‘whistleblower’ liar liar pants on fire would have said something if he had anything.

Why not think about why you disbelieve them?

Have you bothered to look at their X feed to see how they have been received by Gazans?

https://x.com/GHFUpdates/status/1962177056806146535

Do you believe Hamas maths btw? If so, ask yourself why.

If the UN has 400 aid hubs why the actual fuck is thousands of tonnes of aid not being distributed instead of rotting in depots inside Gaza? Ask yourself that.

John Acree is who I was referring to.

https://x.com/GHFUpdates/status/1957826051393925467

He’s had death threats painted on the driveway of his home.

www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-864063

https://x.com/GHFUpdates/status/1962177056806146535

PinkBobby · 05/09/2025 12:12

No - just do some maths and tell me how it’s physically possible to hand out that much food in that amount of time. Think about what info you’re being given.

The UN had, it turns out, over 400 hubs with longer opening hours. Maths adds up for them.

Are we talking about Trump Advisor Johnnie Moore?

CaramelPecan · 05/09/2025 12:09

PaxAeterna · 05/09/2025 10:26

Who are these international government donors funding the GHF?

Again GHF has said they don’t want to be identified probably because there will be mass outrage from pro-Palestinians that Palestinians are getting free aid as they should have been all through this war and before!

Crazy, don’t you think?

CaramelPecan · 05/09/2025 12:07

PinkBobby · 05/09/2025 07:57

I’m just asking how that maths adds up - have you actually paused to think about it?

I don’t know the inner workings of how they operate so efficiently at only 4 sites no. I have no experience in aid distribution myself.

Maybe you could contact them and ask them?

Maybe the UN should too.

The Executive Director of GHF has over 20 years experience in international humanitarian operations though and many of their staff are also experienced humanitarians as well.

Sadly their details can’t be published due to death threats and I think there have been attacks on their homes.

PaxAeterna · 05/09/2025 10:26

Who are these international government donors funding the GHF?

PinkBobby · 05/09/2025 07:57

CaramelPecan · 04/09/2025 23:02

Who said they should be praised? Again, they never stated they could feed the whole population.

They are an addition to the UN. How many people are they feeding a day?

I think the work they are doing is pretty fucking amazing though. With their staff risking their lives, their homes being attacked and their Palestinian workers being murdered and wounded and left for dead by international medical organisations.

In addition to finding a child put at massive risk by one of their former workers trying to smear them with an outrageous lie.

God forbid though, they must be lying with their figures. They just pick them out of thin air, no one checks them I’m sure. The international government donors funding them surely don’t care. They probably spend some time deciding every day by how many hundreds of thousands of meals they’re going to inflate their figures.

Must be taking tips from Hamas.

I don’t think there’s ever been a conflict zone like this. Can you think of one?

I think you mean precedent btw, although no doubt there are terrible Presidents in conflict zones.

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I’m just asking how that maths adds up - have you actually paused to think about it?

CaramelPecan · 04/09/2025 23:02

PinkBobby · 04/09/2025 22:36

So across 3 hubs (I believe they recently closed one so this may be the figures for 4 hubs), they’re handing out 1.5 million meals a day? So 375,000 meals a day from each hub. Now I’m struggling to find much data but I can see that the hubs are open from maybe 10mins to 40mins each day (June/July data). So, in that time they’re handing out 375,000 meals? Even if they’re open for the longer time that’s nearly 9,500 meals a minute. Maybe my brain is just really tired but I’m not sure how that’s possible? Please correct my maths if I’ve missed something.

I’d also like to add that I don’t think a company responsible for aid should be praised for feeding less than the whole population just one meal a day.

The UN refusing to work with them is totally appropriate. Adding armed humanitarian workers to conflict zones is incredibly dangerous for the workers and it increases the risk of civilians being injured (as we’ve seen). It sets a terrible president for future conflict zones.

Who said they should be praised? Again, they never stated they could feed the whole population.

They are an addition to the UN. How many people are they feeding a day?

I think the work they are doing is pretty fucking amazing though. With their staff risking their lives, their homes being attacked and their Palestinian workers being murdered and wounded and left for dead by international medical organisations.

In addition to finding a child put at massive risk by one of their former workers trying to smear them with an outrageous lie.

God forbid though, they must be lying with their figures. They just pick them out of thin air, no one checks them I’m sure. The international government donors funding them surely don’t care. They probably spend some time deciding every day by how many hundreds of thousands of meals they’re going to inflate their figures.

Must be taking tips from Hamas.

I don’t think there’s ever been a conflict zone like this. Can you think of one?

I think you mean precedent btw, although no doubt there are terrible Presidents in conflict zones.

PinkBobby · 04/09/2025 22:36

CaramelPecan · 04/09/2025 22:07

Maybe you’re misinformed.

If you bother to go on the GHF X feed, you will see they are delivering over a million meals everyday (I only went back to 15th August), and over 1.5 million meals everyday for the last week so 10.5 million meals in a week.

Where did you get that they have replaced or ‘taken over’ from the UN? Did they ever say that? The idea was that they would collaborate.

Gee, I wonder why more aid is being looted now UNWRA is not in charge?

Can you think of reason for that?

The 90% is ‘only’ since May? I think it was 93% in July that’s why I rounded it up, Do you not think 90% of aid being ‘diverted’ for THREE MONTHS may be contributing to the current ‘famine’ in Gaza?

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So across 3 hubs (I believe they recently closed one so this may be the figures for 4 hubs), they’re handing out 1.5 million meals a day? So 375,000 meals a day from each hub. Now I’m struggling to find much data but I can see that the hubs are open from maybe 10mins to 40mins each day (June/July data). So, in that time they’re handing out 375,000 meals? Even if they’re open for the longer time that’s nearly 9,500 meals a minute. Maybe my brain is just really tired but I’m not sure how that’s possible? Please correct my maths if I’ve missed something.

I’d also like to add that I don’t think a company responsible for aid should be praised for feeding less than the whole population just one meal a day.

The UN refusing to work with them is totally appropriate. Adding armed humanitarian workers to conflict zones is incredibly dangerous for the workers and it increases the risk of civilians being injured (as we’ve seen). It sets a terrible president for future conflict zones.

CaramelPecan · 04/09/2025 22:07

LoremIpsumCici · 04/09/2025 19:54

You are a bit misinformed.

GHF delivered 1.5m meals on one day, they are not delivering 1.5m meals per day, every day. They deliver on average 2.5m meals per week, or 1 meal per person per week.

In addition, less than 3% of the aid was being diverted/looted when UNWRA was in charge. Some of that 3% would have been looted by the gangs that Israel hired to loot the aid. Which explains why eyewitnesses had been saying they had seen aid looted while IDF was sitting nearby, watching and doing nothing.

The 87% of aid being diverted/looted figure that you have round up to 90% is only since May 2025- which is when GHF took over from the UN.

This is why you suggesting the UN should “ask GHF and IDF for help” is nonsense.

The UN are the only people who were doing and can do the aid correctly. All Israel needs to do is let the UN do their job and also not pay criminal gangs to loot a small fraction of it.

Maybe you’re misinformed.

If you bother to go on the GHF X feed, you will see they are delivering over a million meals everyday (I only went back to 15th August), and over 1.5 million meals everyday for the last week so 10.5 million meals in a week.

Where did you get that they have replaced or ‘taken over’ from the UN? Did they ever say that? The idea was that they would collaborate.

Gee, I wonder why more aid is being looted now UNWRA is not in charge?

Can you think of reason for that?

The 90% is ‘only’ since May? I think it was 93% in July that’s why I rounded it up, Do you not think 90% of aid being ‘diverted’ for THREE MONTHS may be contributing to the current ‘famine’ in Gaza?

LoremIpsumCici · 04/09/2025 19:54

CaramelPecan · 01/09/2025 13:00

How though, when 90% of aid is being ‘diverted’ and the UN is unable to distribute the thousands of tonnes of aid sitting in Gaza now, and for months?

How can this unfettered flow of aid be facilitated?

Do you think the UN should ask for assistance from GHF (who are successfully delivering 1.5 million meals a day) and the IDF?

You are a bit misinformed.

GHF delivered 1.5m meals on one day, they are not delivering 1.5m meals per day, every day. They deliver on average 2.5m meals per week, or 1 meal per person per week.

In addition, less than 3% of the aid was being diverted/looted when UNWRA was in charge. Some of that 3% would have been looted by the gangs that Israel hired to loot the aid. Which explains why eyewitnesses had been saying they had seen aid looted while IDF was sitting nearby, watching and doing nothing.

The 87% of aid being diverted/looted figure that you have round up to 90% is only since May 2025- which is when GHF took over from the UN.

This is why you suggesting the UN should “ask GHF and IDF for help” is nonsense.

The UN are the only people who were doing and can do the aid correctly. All Israel needs to do is let the UN do their job and also not pay criminal gangs to loot a small fraction of it.

PaxAeterna · 01/09/2025 13:29

CaramelPecan · 01/09/2025 13:00

How though, when 90% of aid is being ‘diverted’ and the UN is unable to distribute the thousands of tonnes of aid sitting in Gaza now, and for months?

How can this unfettered flow of aid be facilitated?

Do you think the UN should ask for assistance from GHF (who are successfully delivering 1.5 million meals a day) and the IDF?

The solution to looting is to flood the place with aid. There is always looting during famine situations or even food scarcity situations.

The rest of your post is based on lies and misinformation. Although surely even you realise that not even a whole meal a day for a population is going to fend off famine. It is possible for the IDF to facilitate the delivery of this aid. Do you really think that the UK, the EU among others are so stupid that they are asking for something that is impossible.

Do you honestly believe that aid delivery cannot be facilitated? Or do you just not care whether people starve? Perhaps you think it is ok because they are Palestinians and you can’t separate civilians and militants in your mind?

I find it completely baffling that anyone would defend the aid restrictions. I really do. I wouldn’t be able to justify anyone starving to death but It is just so shockingly cold hearted to shrug your shoulders while small babies die for want of milk and pregnant and breastfeeding mothers deal with these disastrous situations.

CaramelPecan · 01/09/2025 13:00

PaxAeterna · 01/09/2025 11:03

Well the very first thing that needs to happen is that there needs to be an unfettered flow of aid into Gaza. It will come too late for some, but it is obviously the first, very critical step to avert catastrophic starvation and deaths from illness.

How though, when 90% of aid is being ‘diverted’ and the UN is unable to distribute the thousands of tonnes of aid sitting in Gaza now, and for months?

How can this unfettered flow of aid be facilitated?

Do you think the UN should ask for assistance from GHF (who are successfully delivering 1.5 million meals a day) and the IDF?

PaxAeterna · 01/09/2025 11:03

Well the very first thing that needs to happen is that there needs to be an unfettered flow of aid into Gaza. It will come too late for some, but it is obviously the first, very critical step to avert catastrophic starvation and deaths from illness.

Twiglets1 · 01/09/2025 10:48

dairydebris · 01/09/2025 10:20

I agree as long as BN and his nutjobs are in power. Both him ( mainly cos of his nutjobs ) and Hamas need to go for a way forward.

Israel has the structure to get rid of BN if thats what the people desire. I see the situation Israel is in as similar to Hungary, the US, India etc. Right wing government. Israel not unique in this way.

I dont agree theres no way back from it now. It hasnt happened yet. There is a positive way forward. Stranger things have happened.

Agreed.

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SharonEllis · 01/09/2025 10:25

dairydebris · 01/09/2025 10:20

I agree as long as BN and his nutjobs are in power. Both him ( mainly cos of his nutjobs ) and Hamas need to go for a way forward.

Israel has the structure to get rid of BN if thats what the people desire. I see the situation Israel is in as similar to Hungary, the US, India etc. Right wing government. Israel not unique in this way.

I dont agree theres no way back from it now. It hasnt happened yet. There is a positive way forward. Stranger things have happened.

Completely agree. There's never (or rarely) no way forward. Humans are resilient. We always focus on the mistakes we make, but rarely the capacity to survive.

dairydebris · 01/09/2025 10:20

PaxAeterna · 01/09/2025 10:13

The situation requires much more action than one party stepping down. It requires more than Israel even stopping the war. It’s very simplistic to say if Hamas stepped down that everything would end. Gaza is destroyed, the population traumatised. It’s unrealistic to wait for a group of radical fundamentalists to tell their militants to give themselves up. But Even if Hamas disarmed and Israel stepped back, thousands of civilians would still die in the conditions that have been created and there are other armed groups waiting to step into power.

It requires an co-ordinated approach by the Arab League, Israel and Israel’s allies. Something that looks like the New York declaration where there is a proper peaceful path laid out for a Palestinian state.

Unfortunately the US and Israel have absolutely no interest in co-ordinating on this. The plan is ethnic cleansing and that’s it and there looks to be no way back from that now.

Even if this US plan doesn’t come to fruition. I don’t see a positive way forward. The main players aren’t interested- and that’s Qatar, Israel, the US and Hamas.

I agree as long as BN and his nutjobs are in power. Both him ( mainly cos of his nutjobs ) and Hamas need to go for a way forward.

Israel has the structure to get rid of BN if thats what the people desire. I see the situation Israel is in as similar to Hungary, the US, India etc. Right wing government. Israel not unique in this way.

I dont agree theres no way back from it now. It hasnt happened yet. There is a positive way forward. Stranger things have happened.

PaxAeterna · 01/09/2025 10:13

dairydebris · 01/09/2025 08:07

All of what you say, Hamas knew, and they still started this war. So yes, I do believe its by their design.

Where BN's desire to defend and protect Israel / himself begins and ends - a huge problem. Neither him nor Hamas give one shit for Palestinian life.

Surely it would be better for a 2ss if Hamas surrendered, taking away BN main reason for war, and hopefully allowing for more moderate parties to come to power? With both gone, theres a chance, no? Thats what we have to hope for?

The situation requires much more action than one party stepping down. It requires more than Israel even stopping the war. It’s very simplistic to say if Hamas stepped down that everything would end. Gaza is destroyed, the population traumatised. It’s unrealistic to wait for a group of radical fundamentalists to tell their militants to give themselves up. But Even if Hamas disarmed and Israel stepped back, thousands of civilians would still die in the conditions that have been created and there are other armed groups waiting to step into power.

It requires an co-ordinated approach by the Arab League, Israel and Israel’s allies. Something that looks like the New York declaration where there is a proper peaceful path laid out for a Palestinian state.

Unfortunately the US and Israel have absolutely no interest in co-ordinating on this. The plan is ethnic cleansing and that’s it and there looks to be no way back from that now.

Even if this US plan doesn’t come to fruition. I don’t see a positive way forward. The main players aren’t interested- and that’s Qatar, Israel, the US and Hamas.

PinkBobby · 01/09/2025 09:07

dairydebris · 01/09/2025 08:55

You could be right, I know.

But there's just so many real, logical problems with it.
Where will Gazans go? The world won't abide images of thousands squished into camps. I know you'll say the world abides it now, but for now its under plausible deniabilty of war.
What would happen in the WB? The violence would surely escalate? More war? Then more displacement of those Palestinians too? Where will they go? Would Egypt / Jordan / Syria accept them? Would they with financial incentives from the profit makers of Gaza Rivera?
Who would even want any part of this tech hub anyway? Under constant threat of violence? Profiting those holding rightful owners of the land? Theres plenty more attractive waterfront elsewhere surely?
And what happens when Democrats / moderate Israeli parties get into power? Will they allow this to continue? Who wpuld invest in such a plan?

Anyway, this amounts to verbal diarrhea... this much to say I can't see it happening. But I know I could be wrong.

These are all perfectly reasonable questions: you should send them to Trump’s team as I’m not sure they’ve thought about any of them.

Ultimately, we’ll have to wait and see but I have an awful feeling that what’s planned will lead to more violence, that violence will lead to another war (maybe in the WB), war and collective trauma will keep BN or similar in power and this whole situation will rumble on until the right wing have what they want. I’m not sure how this snowball is stopped at this point because Gaza is so flattened it needs to be rebuilt and I don’t believe America in its current guise is going to ‘give it’ to other Arab nations to rebuild or help rebuild it for the Palestinian people. But I am the resident pessimist!

dairydebris · 01/09/2025 08:55

PinkBobby · 01/09/2025 08:43

By the sounds of things, it’s ’too late’ for the people of Gaza anyway. The US/Israel plans that are being drip fed to us appear to be totally lining up with the hopes of the right wing elements of the Israeli government/disaster capitalism. I think Hamas surrendering now (which, I think realistically, radical Islamist terrorists just aren’t going to do) won’t change the plan to flatten the rest of Gaza and build some version of Dubai … well, that’s how they’ll sell it but it will be on the graves of Palestinians and the ruins of their homes and the Palestinian people who live there will be effectively forced to leave. I imagine at least some of those Palestinians will feel the need to retaliate to what looks scarily like ethnic cleansing and the cycle of terror continues indefinitely. Meanwhile, everyone will focus on the evil of radical islam (fair) but not question why it keeps coming back stronger.

You’d think we’d learn from our ‘successful’ war on terror. The Taliban are ruling Afghanistan and we gained ISIS out of it. But let’s repeat that behaviour and it’ll work out…

You could be right, I know.

But there's just so many real, logical problems with it.
Where will Gazans go? The world won't abide images of thousands squished into camps. I know you'll say the world abides it now, but for now its under plausible deniabilty of war.
What would happen in the WB? The violence would surely escalate? More war? Then more displacement of those Palestinians too? Where will they go? Would Egypt / Jordan / Syria accept them? Would they with financial incentives from the profit makers of Gaza Rivera?
Who would even want any part of this tech hub anyway? Under constant threat of violence? Profiting those holding rightful owners of the land? Theres plenty more attractive waterfront elsewhere surely?
And what happens when Democrats / moderate Israeli parties get into power? Will they allow this to continue? Who wpuld invest in such a plan?

Anyway, this amounts to verbal diarrhea... this much to say I can't see it happening. But I know I could be wrong.

Twiglets1 · 01/09/2025 08:51

dairydebris · 01/09/2025 08:24

Agree. There IS a possible pathway to peace, even though I know its hard to see.

Maybe I'm naive, and I'll accept it on this one occasion- but surely this Kushner / give Palestinians 5k plan can't happen? Surely its another way to apply pressure? Hamas, just fgs let it go and hand over to Fatah, the PA, I know theres huge problems with both, but surely any way to keep Palestinian futures in their own hands, until safer hands come along? Hamas is fucking Gazans over now, and forever more. ( I know Israel is too, but Israel has plausible deniabilty. Hamas has no reason whatsoever to go on. )

I feel like time is running out, but there is a possible pathway.

I don't think this 5k proposal will actually happen.
(But then again, I know I can be naive sometimes).

Anonymous sources familiar with the process told The Washington Post that key aspects of the proposal were designed “to make real” US President Donald Trump’s expressed hope to turn Gaza into the “Riviera of the Middle East.”

The plan is based on financial models developed by a DC-based team from the Boston Consulting Group — which also worked with the main American contractor on the US- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.

The White House and State Department declined to comment to the Post, while BCG said the work on the trust plan had not been expressly approved and that two senior partners behind the modeling were subsequently fired.

www.timesofisrael.com/trump-said-weighing-plan-to-pay-gazans-to-leave-put-strip-under-us-run-trusteeship/

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PinkBobby · 01/09/2025 08:43

dairydebris · 01/09/2025 08:07

All of what you say, Hamas knew, and they still started this war. So yes, I do believe its by their design.

Where BN's desire to defend and protect Israel / himself begins and ends - a huge problem. Neither him nor Hamas give one shit for Palestinian life.

Surely it would be better for a 2ss if Hamas surrendered, taking away BN main reason for war, and hopefully allowing for more moderate parties to come to power? With both gone, theres a chance, no? Thats what we have to hope for?

By the sounds of things, it’s ’too late’ for the people of Gaza anyway. The US/Israel plans that are being drip fed to us appear to be totally lining up with the hopes of the right wing elements of the Israeli government/disaster capitalism. I think Hamas surrendering now (which, I think realistically, radical Islamist terrorists just aren’t going to do) won’t change the plan to flatten the rest of Gaza and build some version of Dubai … well, that’s how they’ll sell it but it will be on the graves of Palestinians and the ruins of their homes and the Palestinian people who live there will be effectively forced to leave. I imagine at least some of those Palestinians will feel the need to retaliate to what looks scarily like ethnic cleansing and the cycle of terror continues indefinitely. Meanwhile, everyone will focus on the evil of radical islam (fair) but not question why it keeps coming back stronger.

You’d think we’d learn from our ‘successful’ war on terror. The Taliban are ruling Afghanistan and we gained ISIS out of it. But let’s repeat that behaviour and it’ll work out…

dairydebris · 01/09/2025 08:24

Twiglets1 · 01/09/2025 08:16

I agree. Surely most of us on here should want the same things.

Hamas to surrender & release all hostages so BN no longer has any justification for continuing the war (none that would acceptable to his allies anyway including -surely - Trump who wants to be seen as a peacemaker).

The war to end and a more moderate group to rule Gaza.

BN to be voted out at the elections in 2026 and a more moderate leadership voted in.

These things have to happen first before a 2ss remotely realistic (in my opinion).

Agree. There IS a possible pathway to peace, even though I know its hard to see.

Maybe I'm naive, and I'll accept it on this one occasion- but surely this Kushner / give Palestinians 5k plan can't happen? Surely its another way to apply pressure? Hamas, just fgs let it go and hand over to Fatah, the PA, I know theres huge problems with both, but surely any way to keep Palestinian futures in their own hands, until safer hands come along? Hamas is fucking Gazans over now, and forever more. ( I know Israel is too, but Israel has plausible deniabilty. Hamas has no reason whatsoever to go on. )

I feel like time is running out, but there is a possible pathway.

Twiglets1 · 01/09/2025 08:16

dairydebris · 01/09/2025 08:07

All of what you say, Hamas knew, and they still started this war. So yes, I do believe its by their design.

Where BN's desire to defend and protect Israel / himself begins and ends - a huge problem. Neither him nor Hamas give one shit for Palestinian life.

Surely it would be better for a 2ss if Hamas surrendered, taking away BN main reason for war, and hopefully allowing for more moderate parties to come to power? With both gone, theres a chance, no? Thats what we have to hope for?

I agree. Surely most of us on here should want the same things.

Hamas to surrender & release all hostages so BN no longer has any justification for continuing the war (none that would acceptable to his allies anyway including -surely - Trump who wants to be seen as a peacemaker).

The war to end and a more moderate group to rule Gaza.

BN to be voted out at the elections in 2026 and a more moderate leadership voted in.

These things have to happen first before a 2ss remotely realistic (in my opinion).

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dairydebris · 01/09/2025 08:07

LoremIpsumCici · 01/09/2025 06:01

Its hardly Israels fault that Hamas embeds itself into civilian infrastructure. Its by Hamas' design that civilians die.

Israel is partly at fault for building a massive wall around Gaza manned with machine guns so that no one can leave except a few on work permits (all cancelled on 7 Oct), sending Palestinians displaced from the West Bank and E Jerusalem there for generations such that it was the most densely populated region on Earth consisting of a few cities linked by sprawling refugee camps.

There is no space for Hamas (or anyone) to build military type infrastructure anywhere but underground.

Then once the bombing and siege of Gaza began, the army’s orders were to kill on sight any man, woman or child approaching the buffer zone inside the Gaza wall. Israel hasn’t let any of the civilians out. Even the thousands of people we have detained, taken out of Gaza for questioning and found to be uninvolved civilians with no links to Hamas, we have then sent them back into Gaza all during the war. Even the few thousand children allowed out for medical care, we require be returned to Gaza once well enough before we allow the next group of children out that need life saving care. The complaints that Egypt or Jordan won’t allow these children to stay after hospital discharge is because Israel requires their return before letting out more injured children.

Then we used 2,000lb bombs on these dense urban areas which is an illegal use of these heavy bombs as they are the polar opposite of precision targeting to minimise civilian casualties.

So, forgive me but I do think it’s a bit hypocritical of us to pretend that the civilian deaths are all by design of Hamas when we actively put uninvolved civilians (even children) in the war zone that is Gaza, prevent them from leaving by the use of lethal force, and then use heavy bombs that have a kill radius of three football fields. To me, it is a complete disregard for innocent human life in the pursuit of terrorists.

According to the news yesterday, some 83% of the dead were innocent civilians. That’s not totally by Hamas design, that is also due to the way Israel is fighting this war. In the news today, once Netanyahu feels like he can declare victory, Gazans will be forced to leave by a combination of Gaza being an uninhabitable pile of rubble in a pool of sewage and a pittance payment of $5k which would just about cover airfare somewhere…so they’ll be destitute and homeless but the objective of the far right will be met another step towards a cleansed Eretz Yisrael.

Even when Gaza winds up, I fear that Netanyahu will have already restarted a war with Lebanon or Syria or Iran by then. Israel and the US have pushed a motion through the UN to withdraw the peacekeepers in Lebanon by December 2026 leaving Lebanon vulnerable. We have not stopped bombing Lebanon nor have we fully withdrawn in violation of the ceasefire. In addition, we have occupied parts of Syria and have been bombing even close to the capital of Damascus. Iran is being sanctioned as we speak and that’s going to cause a reprisal which will be another excuse to attack them again. Or maybe I am feeling too cynical and disheartened this morning.

Forever war is the proven way to keep him in power and he is happy to sacrifice not just our hostages but also generations of the youth of Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria and Iran to satisfy his personal ambitions.

Just like we all knew there can be no peace with the leaders of Hamas- who are mostly dead at this point. I also think there can be no peace with the current leaders of Israel and I am bizarrely hoping for the IDF to coup Netanyahu and send him to a prison cell in The Hague to face justice for his crimes against humanity. And I have my whole life always thought of military coups as terrible actions always leading to a dictatorship. But honestly, unless certain politicians suffer heart attacks or strokes, arrest and trial are the only way I see this cycle of war ending.

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All of what you say, Hamas knew, and they still started this war. So yes, I do believe its by their design.

Where BN's desire to defend and protect Israel / himself begins and ends - a huge problem. Neither him nor Hamas give one shit for Palestinian life.

Surely it would be better for a 2ss if Hamas surrendered, taking away BN main reason for war, and hopefully allowing for more moderate parties to come to power? With both gone, theres a chance, no? Thats what we have to hope for?

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