Comment by tptacek
3 days ago
Yes: until yesterday, Hamas has consistently rejected these terms. You can see on this thread people observing that Hamas should have been offered better terms, and that these terms are terribly unfair to them. Stipulate that, sure. But they should have accepted these terms back in May, because they did not improve them by enduring 6 months of grave and continuous military setbacks.
It's really hard to get out from under the fact that they ultimately had to accept the same terms they were offered 6 months ago.
The current deal is not identical to the May 27th deal, and is worse for Israel. That's why publications across the internet are saying that Israel has been forced into this deal, by Trump.
Can you be specific about how it's worse for Israel? That's not my understanding, but maybe I missed something. This seems like an interesting conversation to have!