mwguy @ mwguy @infosec.pub

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Oh I'm sure there are some people at that point on the Israeli political spectrum. I just don't think the ruling coalition is there.

The hostages are a group that's assumed to be complete. That's like if someone stole your tires off your car and offered to give "your tires" back to you but only 2 of the 4. People assume they offered all the tires if the headline doesn't say otherwise.

If you include the partial hostage release, it essentially robs the story as it's clear why you wouldn't do a deal for some of the hostages. Making any deal for some of the hostages is stupid.

I mean they clearly do. A cheap and WW2 era artillery bombardment of the region could have killed an easy 200k in a week.

The UN believes a modern conflict will kill about 9 civilians for every militant. Hamas' government last I checked reported about 11k casualties, 100% civilians. If that's the IDF would need to have killed 1,200 Hamas fighters to meet that ratio. Given that there's an estimated 20-40k fighters in Gaza we should expect 180k-360k casualties if the IDF nominally completes their goal of eliminating Hamas military.

No. Should? No. But are they on a path to peace if they keep fighting? Yes. A cease fire delays eventual peace if the disagreement between to sides is incurable. And at this point it does seem as if it's incurable.

There was a cease fire in place before that. One side broke the cease fire. That's initiating war. That was an intentional, planned decision to start a war.

750M of aid per year just from the UNWRA. Billions more in aid dedicated to specific tasks (like the EU's water pipeline project). And the government that was planning to execute an offensive war couldn't build even one public bomb shelter?

You absolutely made a mistake scrapping nuclear power. They're highly economical and could bankrupt the entire energy sector. They produce power at like $5-15/kwhr

Can you point to the lie that the IDF told in the past that made you distrust it so?

No choice but to build a future with billions of dollars of yearly aid.

Enough to prove viability for fuel delivery? Yes.

It was delivered by Jerry can, by hand from troops in the area. They coordinated the drop with the hospital and apparently Hamas. Presumably if this worked they could have arranged for a more regular supply. But that's 2 barrels of fuel. You could run quite a bit off that.

The UN believes it to be around 9:1

What everytime they repair something they can't help but execute a little slave raid?

Yes before the government the hospital is in declared war on their neighbor.

I used the auto suggested headline.

The Palestinian side of the border was controlled by the Palestinian Authority, until the 2007 takeover by Hamas.

Wow, I wonder why Egypt, a country that suffered from the evils of the Muslim Brotherhood severely, would be unaccepting of a border controlled by an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood? Must be the Jews fault.

Also, Egypt is not getting enough blame for not letting Gazans out through their border.

Oh how short memories we have. The Muslim Brotherhood did some absolute fucked up shit in Egypt. There's a reason them and their offshoots (like Hamas) are banned there.

You would send all the fuel a catastrophic situation needs.

Even if you knew the aid wouldn't arrive, but instead would be used to extend the cause of the catastrophic situation?

I think the difference is the polling in the region that suggests that if elections were held today, not only would Hamas retain control in the Strip, but they'd gain control of the West Bank from Fatah.

That's not the case on the ground in the Gaza Strip and hasn't been for over a decade now.