Comment by Aeolun

1 year ago

Good question, I’m fairly certain that doing exactly nothing, while of course politically untenable, would be preferable to this.

Kind of a “we don’t negotiate with terrorists” kind of deal.

Find the kidnappers and then surgically take them out. If you’ve no clue how to do that get your single big ally to help you out with that, as they have about 20 years of experience doing exactly that thing.

Even better if your lack of response causes a rift/break in the ranks of your opponents, and half of the hostages get released without conflict.

Of course you’ll eventually have to resign and apologize to the public because it’s much easier for them to be bloodthirsty.

And then, Israel’s PM is bloodthirsty themselves, so it’s all an exercise in futility anyway.

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surume  1 year ago

Sorry, but that won't work. Hamas still have 130 hostages, and they shoot mortars, missiles and kamikaze drones into Israel with increasing technology and firepower. They have 20,000 combat soldiers left, so unless we leave several division on their border (which would be insane), they're just break through the fence and slaughter us again. I appreciate your attempt to come up with a solution, but it is not at all connected to reality. Hamas will not just sit in Gaza and wait. They showed us that on October 7th. Either we wipe them out or they will slaughter us again.