Report: Biden Admin “Aggressively” Lobbying Senate Against Blocking Arms Sales to Israel
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The administration claimed that blocking arms transfers would embolden Hamas — ignoring Israel’s genocidal slaughter.

The administration claimed that blocking arms transfers would embolden Hamas — ignoring Israel’s genocidal slaughter.

  • anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    5 days ago

    What hostages? Does anyone really think there are any left alive and not either killed by Israeli bombs, starvation or straight up knifed by hamas out of anger/frustration/convenience?

    • xor@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      81·
      5 days ago

      I mean I’m inclined to believe so, given both hamas and Israel claim it’s the case

      Hamas are incentivised to not kill them arbitrarily (or put them at risk of being killed in Israeli strikes) because it’s their primary bargaining chip, and Israel are incentivised to avoid targeting them for political reasons

      • anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        8·
        5 days ago

        Yeah but you’ll notice the first two methods of hostage death I mentioned would not require Israel to have targeted them, but would be natural outcomes for how they are conducting their military actions.

        • xor@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          41·
          5 days ago

          Sure, but you’ll notice I explicitly referenced that when I said hamas is incentivised to minimise risk of them being hit by Israeli strikes, especially by keeping them separately in members’ homes and in tunnels. The same goes for starvation, in that, if at all possible, hamas actively wants to keep them fed enough to survive, where that isn’t at the cost of starving to death themselves.

          You’re right that some/many (maybe even most, I have no data wrt specific numbers) of the hostages have, and will continue to die due to Israel’s actions, but that’s significantly different from your initial claim of “every single hostage is dead”