It took a UN resolution to get Hamas to budge. I wouldn't call this reasonable.

Or maybe we just take their word for it.



Until someone can identify the major global player (or wannabe player) who can put and maintain pressure on Hamas to commit and adhere to those commitments…this is rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.

That would ensure their total annohilation. I believe they want to avoid that.

But Bibi has already stated the war will go on until Hamas is wiped out, after the ceasefire. So, essentially saying Phase Ii will not happen. Kind of a deal-killer if you ask me. Why would he do that? Because he has a lot to gain.

As for the US. underwriting the deal. What will it do if Netanyahu breaks it? I haven't seen much push-back to Netanyahu. Even with the hampering of aid, the US. has not been able to convince Netanyahu to stop it. People are starving, yet distribution of aid is still slowed and prevented. Why is Bibi allowed to break humanitarian laws and laws of war?

Why would anyone trust a man who has been found to have committed war crimes and crimes against humanity? See the UN report that came out yesterday.

I agree with you 100%.

But these are guys who see martyrdom as the express train to paradise. And it’s not just for themselves. Their logic is that that have done every one of those 38-39,000 citizens a favor by getting them a ticket on that express train too.

IMHO, I think they’re ready to do (and sacrifice) whatever it takes to stay at the top of the western world news cycle and keep the global spotlight on Israel, no matter the apparent cost to their people.

It's more complex than a desire for martyrdom. If that were the case, they could all gather in a HQ somewhere and all be martys within a few minutes.

Also remember they hide in tunnels and behind civilians! What self-respecting would-be martyr would delay gratification in such a manner? You'd also think they'd have caught on by now that civilians won't protect them, Israel is going to bomb them anyway. And yet the claims of human shields persist among some.

No, I think it's too cavalier and illogical to blame the 37,000 deaths on their Islamist beliefs.

It's more likely they actually want freedom and liberation for their people. And they're willing to fight to the last man to get it. Which is very likely, the last man I mean. Just hope they won't take many more innocents down with them.

Freedom and liberation, self-determination for Palestinians? Not many care about that in the corridors of power, or even here sadly.

Bibi tends to find a way to blow up any deal.