Hamas official says group is open to discussions over truce with Israel

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Hamas official says group is open to discussions over truce with Israel
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A senior Hamas official said the group is open to discussions over a possible truce with Israel, having "achieved its targets."

Yep, Hamas managed to entrench both sides in their fucking atrocity competition, so Hamas and the Israeli right-wing can both hang onto power by the fear and hatred stirred in their populations. Great. Same time again next year?

Fucking scumsuckers.

After what happened, I don't think Israel is going to allow Hamas to hang on to power. They are not going to allow Gaza to ever again be in a position to attack Israeli citizens, and that's going to come at the cost of a lot of innocent Palestinians.

Sounds just like Putin saying they're open to talks.

Just as a little reality check for all Hamas "fans" (Hamas not Palestine!!) out here which are actually comparing them to Israel or openly defending them. The Hamas is founded on the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, which are a fairytale full of antisemitism and proven, false statements about Jews and how they are responsible for every bad thing that happens during the centuries and their diabolical plot for world domination (of course one of the favorite lecture of the Nazis)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Protocols_of_the_Elders_of_Zion

Those idiots are really believing this fairytale and they use it to justify the murder of innocent people and Jews in general. So the next time you step in in defense of the Hamas or when you compare them to Israel, keep in mind that they are doing this because they believe in some antisemitic fairytale written by a crazy Russian back in the old days...they are basically Scientology only more degenerated and more violent.

You should also be asking the question--are Lemmy developers anti-semtic?

This whole situation has seriously caused me to reconsider a great many things about Lemmy. I can't support lemmy, at all, if they are pro-murdering terrorist (Hamas, ISIS, et al). The lemmy.ml instance (run by the developers) has serious foundational issues and to me, I am wondering who it is that is writing this software, and who is paying them.

Just block lemmy.ml - who cares what the devs think. It's an open source project.

It's a problem for states that are supporting developers who are supporting terrorists.

If you were genuinely curious one of the devs has a massive manifesto. No need to speculate I’m pretty sure it covers every topic known to man.

I don’t recall seeing anything particularly antisemitic but I was honestly so dumbfounded I wouldn’t know where to start looking.

So I went back because I was curious. Again it is a fucking wild ride, I suggest yall search it out. I'm not gonna post it because I don't wanna bring any unnecessary bandwagoning. But I searched for anti-semitism real quick and found this:

It proves absolutely nothing but it would be pretty weird to see the devs of lemmy cite anti-semitism as a reason Orwell was bad if they were also anti-semitic.

crazy, lemmy is dead to me after these posts. people need to know, it is unsupportable imo.

Bro stop crying. The devs don’t profit from this like a private company would. Don’t use their instance, spin up your own, the project is open source and bigger than them. Your political grandstanding means nothing.

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can you elaborate on this? I wonder if the situation is any other on a platform like reddit so I suppose it's the people not the platform

From what I saw, there was one developer spouting some abhorant things, talking about how all Israeli citizens were targets at this point. I haven't seen anything else about other developers sharing these views though so I'm considering it an isolated nutter until we see more

Lemmy has a huge tankie problem and it becomes really apparent when a situation like this comes up

Why tankies/leftists think Palestine is in any way aligned with them is beyond me

Lemmy.ml is run by the developers on lemmy, and if you look at the modlog, it looks like the lemmy developers deleted comments then banned a shit ton of people who were not virulently anti-Israel. It is pretty shocking to me, as the anti-Israel stuff remained. Who are the developers, and who is paying them?

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Beheads babies, kills 250 people at a music festival, rapes and murders women before parading them down a street, then proceeds to beg for a ceasefire when the “find out” phase begins

Edit: the babies claim is not confirmed

They've been living under an Israeli siege for over a decade and had a mature enough intelligence apparatus to plan a highly coordinated assault while living in a surveillance state.. If you don't think this wasn't a calculated informed attack you've got your head up your ass.

I'm not condoning indiscriminate killing and rape of civilians and taking hostages, I also don't condone the inhumane siege of Gaza that has been happening for decades. 50% of Gaza is under 18. That's not because they're popping out kids, its because you just don't survive that long in that kind of environment, those are also deaths. Not graphic ones that make headlines, but lives were still lost. Its incredibly hypocritical to assume Israel's shit don't stink in this situation either.

I'm also queasy when I read the coverage of the recent attacks by Hamas, I also haven't been living in a police state. Not saying this is the most effective way that they can achieve their objectives, but I can understand how someone growing up seeing violence, sickness and malnutrition for completely preventable reasons dehumanizes the people they see as being the cause of their situation and join or support an organization like Hamas.

I do think that Israel should stop its colonization of the West Bank, cease the blockade, and work towards a two state solution. But my sympathy is with the Palestinian people. I have absolutely no sympathy for hamas after what they have done and they deserve what will happen next.

But my sympathy is with the Palestinian people. I have absolutely no sympathy for hamas after what they have done and they deserve what will happen next.

The Israeli government no longer seems to care about the difference between the two.

There was a time when there was no wall, no blockade, and work towards two state solution. Do remember that Israelis lived inside of Gaza until 2005. Why do you think they raised the wall in west bank and left Gaza in 2005? They left them to self-govern and they elected Hamas and now you think removing walls is going to help solve the issue? What a naive way of thinking.

This is not "you are taking our land" issue, this is "every jew must die" issue to them.

I have sympathy for the Palestinian and Israeli civilians that are being murdered by both sides. Since 2008, Israel has killed significantly more Palestinians than vice versa https://www.ochaopt.org/data/casualties, 6,000 Palestinian deaths to 300 Israeli deaths.

It's the "deserve" part of your comment that I'm having trouble with reconciling when the amount of deaths and violent oppression has been so unbalanced against Palestinians. Yeah, Hamas needs to face consequences, but that's not really what's happening or what's going to be happening. It's going to be civilians that will suffer the most and Hamas will be fine when it's all done.

It's not hard to see, as horrible as Hamas is, how they can get recruits and support for their regime and how this escalated to this point. I don't support what happened in any way, but I can see how things lead up to this.

And I've seen people say that Hamas fucked it up for Palestinians because now they lost the sympathy. Which is hard to not see as flawed when the sympathy hasn't helped Palestinians for over half a century of violent oppression.

I'll just leave this here.

I’ve said this before in this same thread but I will say it again: I think Israel needs to end the blockade of Gaza, withdraw from the West Bank, end the settlement policy, and negotiate with the Palestinian authority. But I have no sympathy for Hamas after what they have done and I hope they are completely destroyed as an organization.

Israel has refused to negotiate. Palestinian leadership has tried.

We took hostages so now you should negotiate rather than genocide the entire Gaza strip.

Yeah, good luck with that.

So you're saying Israel should glass the entire strip? Ok, got it.

Because collective punishment is totally ok and definitely NOT a war crime.

It's not going to be a collective punishment. But also there won't be any negotiation this time. That train has left the station long time ago.

Yup, I do not agree with either side, but I'm pretty sure Israël will be taking the scorched earth approach this time around.

Honestly, I just want this conflict to end. Pragmatically, that seems like the only way to actually end it.

Umm, no.

Is Israel genocides 2 million people, they will draw the ire from the entire Arab world and anyone with a shred of decency.

That would literally be on par with the holocaust.

Not if they give an evaluation warning a few weeks ahead of time

Sure. They would have to do that though and also ensure those in Gaza have the means to evacuate.

It’s not going to be a collective punishment.

What do you think it will be?

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LMAO come on, guess they didn't expect the IDF to fight back 🤷🏽

Taking a shit in the public water supply, getting roughed up as people demand to know why you just shat in the only watersource, and then you tell them to chill and that you "got your point across" lmao.

Yeah sorry Hamas, no takesy backsies when you just murdered a bunch of civilians at a peace festival.

It's like your brother just stole your favourite toy and then he's like "ok now we can have a truce".

Also murdered 40 babies in kfar aza, including beheadings.

Atrocity propaganda, the journalist tweeted that they overheard that from a soldiers conversation and reported it as fact.

No evidence yet it is true.

Huh, yeah looking into it, it seems like a rumor for now.

Might be something with a grain of truth but right now there is bodies, and they are starting to pile up fast enough we can't count how many there were at the beginning. It's amazing how quickly this has escalated into what people wanted anyway.

Except the toy was yours to begin with and your brother has been rubbing the fact he was able to steal it with outside support in your face while actively stealing more of your toys and you finally stood up and took it back from him.

Don't commit genocide if you don't want your own people genocided

It is so much more complicated than that. Both sides have done horrible things, but this last provocation was completely offside.

I wonder what other major event happened in the early 40's? That also was Palestine the territory of Egypt and Jordan, not an independent Palestian state.

Misleading on purpose perhaps?

Again, it is so much more complicated than it appears.

No evidence of 250 dead. Only videos of people running away and Israeli eye witnesses saying resistance fighters were kind to them.

Nice atrocity propaganda though.

Hamas fucked around, is finding out, and want to talk "truce?" What does a truce with a bunch of genocidal terrorists look like?

Not carpet bombing the Gaza strip, where 2 and a half million palestinians live I'd imagine.

If Israel was carpet bombing the Gaza Strip, we wouldn't see hundreds dead. We would see hundreds of thousands dead.

Fair enough. They seem poised to try their best, I truly hope the situation de escalates and actual solutions are sought after.

That all depends on whether Hamas starts executing hostages and uploading the videos to the internet, like they're threatening

Good question, should ask Israel the same thing.

Hamas fucked around and innocent arab palestinians are finding out.

Well, Hamas is who those innocent Palestinians chose to be their government

Some did. They don't exactly hold elections, though.

Last time they did, Hamas won

My worry isn't really the voters that were enfranchised then, ya know? It's gonna be mothers with bloody infants that fuck me up. Or young men pressed into 'service'. Or really any young casualties.

I think he mean in the sense of hostage negotiations.

Practically speaking he's right, Hamas got what they wanted by doing a day of raids for some bullet spray kills, a few IDF outposts, and taking hostages for negotiating power.

Whether or not Israel will actually decide to negotiate for anything is another thing lol.

Lol no way; Hamas needs to be wiped out completely. They can never, ever, be trusted and will just do this shit again in the future.

But Israel is allowed to murder men, women and children and steal homes, land for decades right?

Hypocrisy at its finest.

Yeah, what Hamas did is entirely wrong but don’t forget that Israel been oppressing Palestinians for decades.

Hypocrisy at its finest.

Nope. I don't support Israel doing that either. However, Hamas will never tolerate peace. They will never allow a 2-state compromise; they want Israel completely gone. And Israel is allowed to defend it's borders. There is no happy ending here for anyone.

The right-wing party in Israel (the party currently in control even after losing multiple elections) will also never support peaceful co-existence. They will never allow a real two state solution where the other state has control over its borders, air, water, import rights, etc. They want Palestine completely gone, and in fact Bibi was just at the UN arguing that Israel already has complete control and ownership over the Palestinian territories. Palestine is allowed to defend against the longest running occupation in history. There is no happy ending here as long as the Israeli boot is on the Palestinian neck.

Unfortunately for Palestine, Israel will win.

They already have total military control. What does win mean?

Relocate the population from the Gaza strip to the West Bank?

Birth control in the water supply, so the population slowly ages out?

Internment camps for all military aged men?

It will likely mean leveling Gaza to the ground and telling its residents to find somewhere else to live without giving them support. It won't be pleasant for anyone.

The Gaza strip is within Israel's borders. They hold direct power over whether the people who live there have electricity water and food.

Israel is not defending itself. They are using hamas attacks as a pretext to commit mass violence on Palestinians.

Of course Israel is defending itself against a homicidal organization. The fact it's in Israel's borders is irrelevant.

Its very relevant. Is depriving all 2 and a half million palestinians of food water and electricity self defense? Is bombing palestinian homes an act of self defense? Is depriving palestinians of human rights an act of self defense?

Self defense is not murdering innocent people. It never is no matter what. They're using the attack from hamas as a pretext to commit mass acts of violence against innocent Palestinians.

Maybe I'm ignorant, but isn't hammas a terrorist group? If so fuck them, but keep Palestine alone.

Hamas is a response to a repressive Israeli regime. Even if you "wipe out" Hamas, another group will just fill its place.

It's not a matter of just getting rid of the "bad guys" and hoping the forces of good win the day... It requires a monumental shift not only in the treatment of the Palestinians, but in the entire political structure of the area. Which is neither happening easily nor quickly. And sadly, there's not a whole lot we can do to help the situation.

The Palestinian people have to see a better option than extremist violence. People will take what they think is their best incentive. If they have no hope, if they feel like they have no representation, then they choose violence. So we have to give the people a better option than Hamas

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I don’t know if you know this but Hamas is controlling the administration of the Gaza Strip. They are a terrorist organisation but also the de facto local government.

Ok, but destroying Gaza and killing all the inhabitants is still genocide and a war crime.

Hamas really killed themselves with their murders, Israels response will be brutal and long. But they will not kill “everyone” as you say, they are bombing Hamas targets and many of them are located in civilian spots. It will not stop Israel after these terror attacks and everyone knew this beforehand. Israels actions before have been exactly the same.

Hopefully Hamas will be completely eradicated and the Palestinians will reject these fascist leaders from now on, for betraying their trust and leading their people to even more suffering.

It is all just tragic and awful.

Majority of Palenstinians support Hamas.

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I mean yeah it'd be great if you could just do that. But how would you? And more importantly, how is the state of Israel proposing to get rid of Hamas? What actions are they taking right now with that aim? They're bombing palestinians. Just random indiscriminate bombing. How exactly would that eliminate Hamas? Their plan is just to kill as many palestinians as they can, Netanyahu has said himself he plans to "turn Gaza into a desert island" and his defense minister has said "our enemies are human animals". It's plain as day what they plan to do.

Yes I'm aware of what Israel is doing. No, I don't know of any better ways to get rid of Hamas.

At least you're honest. I don't see mass murder of innocent Palestinian men women and children as acceptable as a kind of attack on Hamas. Palestinians have as much right to life as Israelis do, and we should be as outraged at their senseless deaths as we have been about the festival goers.

Wipe them away. Fucking monsters.

Have you seen the videos of abducted children in cages? Hamas must be removed.

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Exchange prisoners for Hamas leaders, make Hamas say outright that they see Palestinian lives as lesser than their own.

If they actually have enough spine to take the deal, start a whole new Nuremberg trial and purge everyone down to the "just following orders" grunts and rebuild from there.

Let's try this conversation again in 2 weeks.

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Oct 9 (Reuters) - A senior Hamas official said the group is open to discussions over a possible truce with Israel, having "achieved its targets."

Moussa Abu Marzouk told Al Jazeera in a phone interview that Hamas was open to "something of that sort" and "all political dialogues" when asked whether the Islamist group is willing to discuss a possible ceasefire.


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This is the best summary I could come up with:


Oct 9 (Reuters) - A senior said Israel achieved its targets in a phone interview.


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Oh man, look I don’t want to get into picking sides or whatever and it’s extremely cold hearted to look at is so frankly… but.

Israel is going to completely annex all of Palestine by force and fully occupy them even more than before…

They are already fully mobilising everything and looking steamroll anything that can’t get out of the way or that stands and fights.

The general vibe I’m seeing is they will do their best to straight up crush everything once and for all, while they feel they have the geo political cover to probably get away with it.

So many people are going to die.

I hope every piece of shit Hamas son of a bitch feels every rocket blast, every bullet, and every knife that's coming for them.