Oct 14, 2025 10:15 AM
(This post was last modified: Oct 14, 2025 12:01 PM by Zinjanthropos.)
Hope you’re right Yaz. Call me a pessimist if you like.
Just basing my opinion on the conditions set forth, especially the release of 2000 prisoners for 20 hostages. Although happens rarely these days, I can remember many countries having a non negotiation policy re plane hijacking that put more than 20 people at risk each time. I think it may have been an unwise decision to exchange non combatants for combatants and this will eventually result in more than 20 deaths. I realize this doesn’t sound nice but I think it’s true war to Hamas who feels the duty is to completely annihilate their hated enemy. Don’t think one can change that attitude through negotiations.
JNS article:
https://www.jns.org/israel-far-from-vict...erts-warn/
Excerpt:
Damn, forgot to put this Google AI take in original post:
One last thing (AI):
Just basing my opinion on the conditions set forth, especially the release of 2000 prisoners for 20 hostages. Although happens rarely these days, I can remember many countries having a non negotiation policy re plane hijacking that put more than 20 people at risk each time. I think it may have been an unwise decision to exchange non combatants for combatants and this will eventually result in more than 20 deaths. I realize this doesn’t sound nice but I think it’s true war to Hamas who feels the duty is to completely annihilate their hated enemy. Don’t think one can change that attitude through negotiations.
JNS article:
https://www.jns.org/israel-far-from-vict...erts-warn/
Excerpt:
Quote:. “I find it inconceivable that the mighty IDF, with all its air force and navy and tanks and special forces, was unable to destroy a lightly armored militia. If someone told me on Oct. 6 that after two years, Hamas would emerge unvanquished, I would dismiss them as a fool,” Martin Sherman, senior researcher at the Israel Defense and Security Forum, told JNS.
Damn, forgot to put this Google AI take in original post:
Quote: Public perception: In the eyes of many, Hamas has emerged as the "victor" of the recent conflict merely by enduring Israeli military pressure and forcing a ceasefire, validating its strategy of armed resistance. For Hamas and other militant groups, the recent hostage exchange also demonstrated the strategic effectiveness of hostage-taking.
One last thing (AI):
Quote: The Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces violated ceasefires to resupply, reorganize, and position troops more effectively. A key example occurred after the 1973 Paris Peace Accords, when they continued their offensive activities to gain ground against South Vietnam, ultimately leading to the fall of Saigon.
