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0 pointscroes1y ago0 comments

They agreed to the same terms from last May, so where did the soften anything?

Looks more like the Iranian hostage situation when Carter lost against Reagan.

>if Hamas had realized that the entire world was pressuring them to surrender.

I guess you mean the entire western world. The rest doesn't care or doesn't Israel vs Hamas as good vs evil. Same with Russian vs Ukraine.

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ars1y ago

> so where did the soften anything?

That's not true. Hamas agreed to:

* Allow Israel to patrol the Philadelphi corridor.

* Allow Israel troops to remain in a buffer zone

* Provided an actual list of hostages which they refused originally

* Agreed to a temporary ceasefire with hopes of negotiated a permanent one (they wanted the whole thing in one shot).

Israel on the other hand changed nothing except possible the specifics of who would be released (Israel will releases murderers, which earlier they did not want to do).

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