With its increased leverage in this round, Hamas is likely to push harder for concessions on key issues, such as easing the blockade and winning the release of prisoners held by Israel.
What idiot wrote this? What leverage does Hamas have? They will be destroyed in this war.
EDIT: Israel has officially decided to destroy Hamas for good. Article in hebrew: https://www.ynet.co.il/news/article/bjso00d111t
Use google translate to read in English, sadly the direct link to translation does not work
EDIT: Israel has officially decided to destroy Hamas for good.
Fun fact, if the GWOT taught us anything, it’s that you can’t eradicate an ideology through military force unless you do a genocide. Funner fact, Israel has been doing a slow genocide for a while and this is the excuse they have to speed the process up.
Hamas has huge support in palestine, killing them will result in (more) civilian deaths and increase support further.
“unprecedented”
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means…
The territory that they invaded was previously Palestine, does anyone know how long ago?
Since Palestine has bitten back after decades of abuse and thousands of people killed, wiping them off the map is completely and utterly justified now! Three cheers for israel!
Why are they called militant group? They have been and are terrorists.
They are not mutually exclusive.
We all wish “militants” described them better. Israel can wipe out an organized military that attacks them, with minimal impact on civilians. However these terrorists hide among the civilians, forcing the civilian population into the war, whether they want toor not
True, but while a terrorist is also someone who eats, one of the two is describing them better.
Peaceful terrorists struck several major city centers yesterday, according to their social media. Impact, if any, was not noticed.
I have to use the same title as the original article else it gets deleted
Hm okay-ish. Can you add some text below? How is that rule implemented? Do moderators check?
It’s the first rule in the community info section. Mods will check it if it’s reported for not following the guidelines.
This is AP, it’s not their job to have an opinion or adopt a particular nation’s stance on the news they report.
That doesn’t stop you or I from referring to them as a terrorist organisation if that’s what we believe.
Of course. But just because some news outlet is calling it a special operation does not mean that we should accept that. Such things need to be pointed out. Preferably in the TO.
(The other stuff were just genuine questions)
AP isn’t “some news outlet” though, they are the news outlet that other news outlets get their news from You’re implying a political slant that isn’t there. Their job is to report the literal and factual news. Other news outlets then use their articles to create or add political insight to their own articles should they wish to do so.
For example, AP didn’t report that Ukraine was a “special operation”. They did report that Putin was calling it that.
That’s the difference between impartiality and political alignment.
The headline says they are a militant group. Not that they call themselves that it what not.
I generally get your point and that is correct. But I don’t see that here, as per above.
They are a militant terrorist organisation. Putting the terms terrorist and militant at odds with each other is fruitless wordplay in the context of the news outlet reporting this and the rules of the sub.
We both agree that they are a terrorist organisation and we are free to talk about it here. That seems reasonable enough to me.
Some text below. Ok. Zionist nation gets attacked by terrorist group, people on both sides suffer.
Because they are fighting a country doing oppression and apartheid and not “terrorizing citizens”.
they actually do terrorizing citizens right now
Oh man I didn’t realize all those kids at the desert rave which were kidnapped and killed by Hamas terrorists were actually soldiers in disguise.
