Well this awkward for the "but the hostages, but the hostages" crowd....
'In October 2023, Hamas offered to release all civilian hostages if Isr*el promised not to invade Gaza. Netanyahu rejected it. Some of us noted this at the time; establishment media did not, being too busy spreading pro-genocide atrocity propaganda about Hamas raping women and beheading babies.
The only open question is whether Hamas asked for anything at all. Qatari PM Mohammed al-Thani says Hamas agreed to free the hostages without conditions. Mossad chief David Barnea insists Hamas "set unacceptable conditions, such as halting the IDF's incursion into Gaza and new rights for worshippers on the Temple Mount."
Correct: because the natives had dared to resist their occupiers, it was unacceptable to stop Isr*el from destroying Gaza, or from denying Palestinians access to one of Islam's holiest sites.
A senior Isr*eli military official now tells Haaretz that when the Hamas offer reached the military, it was ignored: "To be honest, the issue of the hostages was not seriously on the agenda at this stage, and no one at the military or political level was open to discussing the proposal."
Antony Blinken was told of the Hamas offer directly, and rejected it too. "Isr*el is still under attack, and there's no one to talk to," he told the Qatari PM. This is the same Blinken who would soon claim that if Hamas freed the hostages, "this could end tomorrow." That was ghoulish on its own terms, endorsing mass murder as the means to an "end." It also wasn't honest, which for Blinken was the default.
Former CIA chief William Burns now says: "The basic problem was that Hamas was looking for a 'permanent end to the conflict,' as they called it." Yes. And the Biden team pretended Hamas was the obstacle, to help Isr*el put a permanent end to Gaza as a society and to Palestinians as a people seeking self-determination.'
~ Aaron Matė
'In October 2023, Hamas offered to release all civilian hostages if Isr*el promised not to invade Gaza. Netanyahu rejected it. Some of us noted this at the time; establishment media did not, being too busy spreading pro-genocide atrocity propaganda about Hamas raping women and beheading babies.
The only open question is whether Hamas asked for anything at all. Qatari PM Mohammed al-Thani says Hamas agreed to free the hostages without conditions. Mossad chief David Barnea insists Hamas "set unacceptable conditions, such as halting the IDF's incursion into Gaza and new rights for worshippers on the Temple Mount."
Correct: because the natives had dared to resist their occupiers, it was unacceptable to stop Isr*el from destroying Gaza, or from denying Palestinians access to one of Islam's holiest sites.
A senior Isr*eli military official now tells Haaretz that when the Hamas offer reached the military, it was ignored: "To be honest, the issue of the hostages was not seriously on the agenda at this stage, and no one at the military or political level was open to discussing the proposal."
Antony Blinken was told of the Hamas offer directly, and rejected it too. "Isr*el is still under attack, and there's no one to talk to," he told the Qatari PM. This is the same Blinken who would soon claim that if Hamas freed the hostages, "this could end tomorrow." That was ghoulish on its own terms, endorsing mass murder as the means to an "end." It also wasn't honest, which for Blinken was the default.
Former CIA chief William Burns now says: "The basic problem was that Hamas was looking for a 'permanent end to the conflict,' as they called it." Yes. And the Biden team pretended Hamas was the obstacle, to help Isr*el put a permanent end to Gaza as a society and to Palestinians as a people seeking self-determination.'
~ Aaron Matė
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Marilyn Spicer
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