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Originally Posted by Bluegrassplayer
Even if it literally was "we will release the hostages and you pretend nothing happened", it's a truly depraved offer that seeks to take advantage of the families of the kidnapped and Israel's high regard for Israeli life.
Imagine the incentive structure this creates when someone can commit a terrorist act of this scale and then go away unpunished as long as they take hostages.
Israel has little regard for their own life. if they did, they would have accepted the hostages back and not down an invasion.
if they did, then they wouldnt have gotten all those soldiers killed in worthless non-military terrorism missions like blowing up civilian houses.
and I like how you elide what you mean by "unpunished". what is this punishment? oh you mean beheading children, burying children alive, burning them alive?