Seems like a bad idea

[jon-nyc]

Hamas know all hell will break loose if they return all the hostages too. So of course they won’t fall for this.

So Israel’s real options are:

(1) play out the existing process, get some more hostages out, then crush them, or

(2) end the cease fire Saturday, get no more hostages, and crush them.

[LuFins Dad]

It was the condition of the hostages just released. That set him off.

[Horace]

It reveals that the captors are legit sadists, and that they'll even reduce the bargaining power the hostages give them in order to indulge that sadism.

[LuFins Dad]

Plus. Hamas announced at noon that they weren’t releasing more prisoners.

[LuFins Dad]

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5ye69ey4pyo

[Renauda]

Then I guess all hell will have to break loose….again.

[jon-nyc]

@LuFins-Dad said in Seems like a bad idea:

It was the condition of the hostages just released. That set him off.

Doesn’t make it any less of a bad idea, unless you disagree with my argument above.

[Copper]

Hamas has until Noon on Saturday

This means they have until noon on Friday.

Remember, he is a big fat liar.

And he is tricky.

[LuFins Dad]

@jon-nyc said in Seems like a bad idea:

@LuFins-Dad said in Seems like a bad idea:

It was the condition of the hostages just released. That set him off.

Doesn’t make it any less of a bad idea, unless you disagree with my argument above.

And again, this is coming about after Hamas announced they aren’t releasing hostages on Saturday and are stating the conditions have been broken.

[jon-nyc]

Yeah probably bluster and it isn’t the first time they’ve threatened a pause.

[Jolly]

I suspect Israel will resume operations. The U.S. will not impede munitions and any electronic or satellite intelligence we have will be at Israel's disposal.

[jon-nyc]

Of course. It’s about timing. The question is do they try to get the rest of this phases hostages out first ir not.

[Jolly]

I'm guessing not.