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  • Oh absolutely. Israel's popularity has taken a hit in the US (Down to 58%, source but the Palestinian Authority's support is down to 18% (same source).

    And when you look at specifically questions around Israel & Hamas' handling and justification for conflict it's no-contest (source. Nobody thinks Hamas' actions were justifiable. That pew poll is pretty nuanced and lays it out pretty well. Most of Palestinians support is primarily focused on the human cost of the war; which the US is seen to be mitigating with it's air drops and the port we're building.

    It's not really surprising either. The older you are the more you've experienced Hamas/PA tactics and PR and the less susceptible you are to it. And Hamas is getting fairly good coverage here. There's rarely a news article pointing out that US citizens are still being held hostage, for example.

  • Gaza isn't large. You could legitimately destroy 90% of standing structures with 10-20k tomahawk-esque missiles. You could like do the same thing with 5-10x the number of artillery shells.

  • Because it's wildly unpopular here. The attacks on 10/7 have convinced more people who would normally be supporters if Gaza/Hamas to not be. And the persistent polling that shows supermajority support amongst Palestinians, plus the continued ransom (and likely perpetual rape) of hostages, combine with the consistent pledge of "we love it and we'll do it again", and the fact that Americans are still being held hostage; Palestinians should be glad the US hasn't entered the conflict ourselves.

  • according to who lmao

    It's called proof of life. It's a common thing in hostage taking; because dead hostage aren't worth as much as live ones.

  • "From the River to the Sea"

  • Hamas vocally disagrees with this.

  • I can confidently say that if Israel stops supporting settlers taking Palestinian homes, killing Palestinians indiscriminately, and no longer enforce apartheid Hamas would observe an end to violent hostilities.

    Hamas disagrees with you.

  • Because that's the standard Hostage taking behavior.

  • About the Cartels or Hamas?

  • And what terms do you propose that would be observed by Hamas?

  • For good reason.

  • Hamas won't even confirm the hostages and their status. The Cartels confirm hostages and their status when negotiating.

  • That's objectively untrue. Ukraine has like a dozen Gaza's right now. And Sudan is a worse environment where there's multiple simultaneous genocides happening right now.

  • Egypt and Qatar promised Israel that if it sent a delegation to Doha this week for talks on the humanitarian aspects of the proposed deal, they would bring answers from Hamas on which hostages are still alive and put pressure on the group to be flexible on the number of Palestinians prisoners it demands to be released as part of any agreement.

    From an article that came out today. Hamas won't even attempt to confirm the hostages it has.

  • They're credible because the CIA has no evidence to refute it and Israeli's equivalents didn't share the raw intelligence with them. Turns out spying on Hamas isn't something the US does a lot of. If they had evidence to refute it they'd call the reports conflicting or something similar.

  • "Casts doubt" in the title. Credible in the report from the CIA.

  • Tealc is a goat penguin.