re: #180 lawhawk

Egypt (or any other country for that matter) could keep a stock ceasefire agreement on hand, since they’re all essentially the same. That Hamas refuses to accept the ceasefire should signal to everyone that they are the ones who are hoping for casualties. They’re the ones who want to inflict damage (on Israel mostly, but also don’t care that Gazans get hit when Israel responds to Hamas attacks).

It’s pretty obvious that Israel also wants to inflict damage on Hamas, and that a side effect of this is also damage to ordinary Gazans. Israel may ‘care’ about this, but the dead remain just as dead.

I don’t think there are any signs that Netanyahu—not Israel, but Bibi and his party—actually wants a working ceasefire before they do a lot more damage (or what they perceive as damage) to Hamas.

There is absolutely no excuse for Hamas’s rocket attacks, but this entire thing started as a response to the kidnap and murder of three people before any real information about whether it was sanctioned by Hamas or not. The mass arrests were not a sensible response to that.

The good news is that Netanyahu’s government is looking more and more shaky and elections may be coming soon.