Will Israel negotiate to get their people back?

Over the next couple of weeks? Probably nothing good. I’m a little worried about spillover with this to be honest.

Hopefully Israel leaves the illegally occupied territories. Until they do that and make reparations for their ethic cleansing of the Palestinian people, I have little sympathy for the state as a nation. Of course my heart goes out to innocent Israeli civilians and their families who are victims of terror.

What do I think will happen?
They will negotiate after Gaza is turned into a smoking hulk. Hamas will release videos of soldiers and Israeli citizens being tortured. However, every video will further Israel’s resolve to turn the place to rubble.
Every building over 5 stories will be flattened.

~Just my uninformed opinion. You’ll have to go to the conspiracy websites to get “the facts”.~

Israel will SMOKE Hamas !

I don’t think Netanyahu helped matters by saying that Israel is in a state of war, What is the objective of this war? Killing people? Destroying buildings? The death and destruction on both sides is awful. I hope that it will be possible to reach a truce.

@LostInParadise Maybe Netanyahu was saying all Israelis should be ready to be called to serve. All Israelis are basically in military reserves except for most Arab Israelis and the extremely religious Israelis. I didn’t see the statement Netanyahu made, was it a speech or just a statement? I don’t know the full context.

Hamas attacked from all fronts, land, air, sea, they are declaring war basically. My Israeli friend who has been in the US a year, she said she heard Iran is helping Hamas. I don’t know if that’s the case.

I found the video of Netanyahu. https://youtu.be/kZ9hsCQSJSw?si=6jw1Ls7BY1wObSnN

What will happen is what we’re already witnessing.

Israel is carrying out reprisal attacks and collectively punishing Palestinians by destroying residential buildings and civilian infrastructure

As usual, and has been the case for longer than I have been alive, they will make sure to kill and maim far more Palestinians than Hamas could dream of doing to Israel.

Most of the media and various commentators will act like Palestinians are irrational savages who just wake up and decide to attack Israel for no reason and with no prior history.

On the other hand, Israel will be talked about as if it has been under siege from bloodthirsty Arabs and Jew-hating Muslims since its inception, and this is just another episode where it has to “defend itself” and retaliate appropriately with the predictable full moral support of our Western liberal political establishment.

After a few weeks of violence, it’ll subside and we’ll be back to the status quo of Israel ritually humiliating, brutalising, dispossessing, harassing and killing Palestinians with impunity, and with most of our media ignoring it or rationalising it. Until the next time Israel decides to “mow the lawn” or goads Hamas into an attack followed by its own massively disproportionate response.

This will go on indefinitely, and there’s nothing anyone can do about it.

It’s one thing to negotiate with people when they want money in return. These people don’t want money, they want to make a political statement, so will kill their captives. (My guess…)

Hamas will use captured Israelis as human shields, and Israel will do as much damage as possible to Hamas while trying to minimize Israeli casualties. A certain percentage of Israelis will get killed.