I genuinely do not know who the bad guys are. S lot of my leftist friends are against Israel, but from what I know Israel was attacked and is responding and trying to get their hostages back.

Enlighten me. Am I wrong? Why am I wrong?

And dumb it down for me, because apparently I’m an idiot.

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    Hamas wants to trade those hostages for Palestinian hostages. Which have been imprisoned for decades.

    It is a tale of “Israel started it” and the Palestinians have no other possible way to make demands from Israel than using the same tactics.

    Israel openly says they will continue the destruction. Even if Hamas releases the hostages. Their government does not care about hostages. But the Israeli people do. Hamas would be giving up the only leverage they have against Israel by releasing the hostages.