Hamas official says ‘no chance’ hostages
will return to Israel after Netanyahu
rejects deal
Guardian,
by
Guardian Staff
Original Article
Posted By: OhioNick,
1/22/2024 4:02:08 AM
The prospect of a deal to release the remaining hostages held by Hamas appeared to recede on Sunday after a Hamas official said Benjamin Netanyahu’s rejection of their conditions meant there was “no chance” of their return.
Netanyahu had earlier dismissed the militant group’s conditions to end the war, which he said included leaving Hamas in power and Israel’s complete withdrawal from the territory.
A Hamas official, Sami Abu Zuhri, told Reuters the Israeli prime minister’s refusal to end the military offensive in Gaza “means there is no chance for the return of the [Israeli] captives."
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
jayjeti 1/22/2024 4:37:54 AM (No. 1641635)
The political Left in Israel and elsewhere in the world don't like Netanyahu and will play politics, as this article does, because he is conservative, and they will not let a good crisis go to waste.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Rinktum 1/22/2024 4:50:16 AM (No. 1641637)
Love God and the world will hate you. This is the problem Netanyahu has. He loves God and loves his country and for that he is reviled by the wickedness of this world. Whatever Joe Biden’s side is for you can automatically be against and you will be on the right side of the issue. We are in a spiritual battle of good versus evil. Gotta pick a side and good people will stand with Bibi and Israel.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
mifla 1/22/2024 4:57:27 AM (No. 1641639)
Counter offer. Release all hostages and lay down your arms, and you can live.
For every hostage hurt or killed, ten Hamas leaders will be hunted down and killed, along with any bodyguards who get in the way.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
chumley 1/22/2024 5:01:33 AM (No. 1641640)
For strategic purposes they were written off long ago. If you conduct your war based on hostages it just encourages more hostage taking and limits military successes.
The Muslim animals have an advantage in that regard, because they know we value human life, and they dont.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 1/22/2024 7:17:10 AM (No. 1641667)
With that settled now the Israelis can go ahead and do the Hamas genocide that everybody is claiming they already do.
Nothing to stop them nothing to rein them in. Scorched earth.
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They were probably dead long ago, and Hamas wants to make Bibi take the blame for their deaths by refusing their unreasonable demands.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
BarryNo 1/22/2024 7:33:32 AM (No. 1641676)
Kill ALL Hamas.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
skacmar 1/22/2024 7:51:30 AM (No. 1641687)
The hostages are an emotional issue. Wars are not won on emotional issues. Thats how you lose. Netanyahu is looking at protecting the entire nation to of Israel. Does he want to save the hostages? Of course he does. He also wants to save the other 7.2 million Jews in Israel. He is looking at the big picture and not be emotional about the hostages.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Strike3 1/22/2024 7:53:02 AM (No. 1641688)
There never was a chance they would all be returned. Without hostages Hamas has nothing and Gaza would quickly be turned into dust. Finish the job, Bibi, we are behind you.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
nuclearnavymom 1/22/2024 8:00:32 AM (No. 1641692)
This is awful to say, but those poor hostages are not and never were going to be returned.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Daisymay 1/22/2024 8:12:06 AM (No. 1641697)
In that case, I say to Netanyahu, Bomb them into Sunday! Leave no stone unturned! The only way you will ever have peace is to take every last ONE OF THEM out! If you need a BIG ONE to handle that, call us!
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Let us get one thing straight....they are NOT hostages....they are kidnap victims. Their kidnappers should be treated accordingly.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
paral04 1/22/2024 9:57:00 AM (No. 1641772)
I doubt if these poor people are still alive under the torture of these animals disguised as human beings. Israel needs to wipe out Hamas and flood those tunnels since I assume they haven't yet as we have heard no news about that. Stay strong Israel! Unlike our country, you have a leader who loves his.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
hershey 1/22/2024 10:47:21 AM (No. 1641799)
I never did think they would get all of them back...those chicken crap Ham- Ass fighters would keep using them as pawns, alive or dead...I'm thinking collateral damage...just go in and burn Ham-Ass to the ground, fill the tunnels with sea water and bulldoze all the buildings into the sea....fix the problem once and for all....
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
DVC 1/22/2024 10:52:15 AM (No. 1641802)
Most, or possibly all the hostages have already been murdered.
Kill all Hamas. 100%. Don't stop till they are extinct.
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"no chance"..... to which I respond, proceed with turning Gaza into a parkiing lot.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
mc squared 1/22/2024 12:28:11 PM (No. 1641873)
We don't even know if they're still alive. No matter what Bibi does, he will be criticized. He should kill all the roaches at once and blast the hell of of Gaza.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
red1066 1/22/2024 1:05:51 PM (No. 1641894)
Were these Hamas statements made from Qatar while staying in multimillion dollar home?
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
SALady 1/22/2024 1:21:45 PM (No. 1641901)
I hope Israel quadruples their efforts to exterminate the vermin of hamas off the face of the Earth!!!!!
Gaza needs to be a "no man's land". A buffer between the evil is islam and the good of Israel!!!!! If that wasn't clear before, it needs to be crystal clear now!!!
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
zoidberg 1/22/2024 1:53:07 PM (No. 1641920)
"Kill All Hamas" includes sending Mossad to Qatar and killing their leaders.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Alecto2 1/23/2024 8:24:23 AM (No. 1642435)
So much hate. There seems to be a consensus for killing all the Palestinians. What should we name that? "The Final Solution" perhaps because it's worked so well in the past?
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
marbles 1/23/2024 8:42:09 AM (No. 1642448)
The left wants Netanyahu out, this is one way for them to manipulate the situation with the rent a mob protesters.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Right Time 1/23/2024 9:44:48 AM (No. 1642492)
Gaza should get the "Dresden Bombardment" treatment that was used in WWII. Not a building or wall left standing.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
rikkitikki 1/23/2024 9:47:00 AM (No. 1642494)
Such an admission (that the hostages will not be returned) is a de-facto admission of pre-meditated murder, in advance of the fact...since no one expects Hamas to keep the hostages alive much longer under any scenario.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Zigrid 1/23/2024 10:44:12 AM (No. 1642546)
So...hamas is holding a one year old baby hostage and refuses to release the baby to the parents....and they think Bibi will let them have power to attack Israel again and kill thousands....I think not!!...WE the people of America will stand with you...go IDF and Mossad!!
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
cor-vet 1/23/2024 10:46:11 AM (No. 1642548)
Hamas has already set the ratio, 1500 hamas terrorists are equal to one Israeli citizen, so for every hostage determined to be dead, delete 1500 terrorists.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Trapper 1/23/2024 10:46:56 AM (No. 1642550)
Legitimate political and military groups do not murder and mutilate women and dhildren or take civilian non-combatant hostages. Savages do. The people of Gaza should be told that the fastest way for them to bring and end to the war there is for them to begin pointing out and turning in Hamas members to the IDF. If they refuse, they leave Israel no choicce but to pound them into total submission and unconditional surrender. Most oif the world has had it with their crap. Join the 21st Century or get out of the way.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Kafka2 1/23/2024 2:40:06 PM (No. 1642711)
If the truth be told, at least half those held by Hamas are already dead. Hamas wants all of those held by Israel returned before Israel starts getting bodies back.
At least seven times before Israel has been pressured into a truce and each time Hamas has broken that truce. Now, Biden and Blinken and are trying to force Israel to agree to a truce giving back everything that Hamas has lost. This is being used to throw Israel under the bus.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
paral04 1/23/2024 4:23:50 PM (No. 1642783)
They can't release them as the hostages are probably dead. Israel needs to level the West Bank and plow salt into the soil like the Carthaginians did to Egypt a few thousand years ago.
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