I am sick of the comments condemning the US for not wanting a ceasefire. Of course, the US wants a ceasefire, but they know a ceasefire has to be between multiple parties. Hamas won’t agree.

@AlliFlowers People are using “ceasefire” to mean essentially “Israel stops violating the Geneva Conventions” and of course the U.S. won’t use it because it means something very specific, as you said.

Also if the U.S. wants to have any influence on Israel at all, they cannot demand something like that or make ultimatums to Israel, which a lot of people want them to do. It may play well domestically if they do but it won’t help the Palestinians.

@MisuseCase The only thing that will help the Palestinians is to get rid of Hamas. That means the Palestinians have to help.

@AlliFlowers This thing that is happening right now is not encouraging the Palestinians to help. Quite the opposite actually.

Which is fine for Netanyahu and his fellow-travelers, they love having Hamas as a foil.

@MisuseCase Nobody wins. But seriously, when a prisoner gets away from Hamas, and the “good citizens of Gaza” return him to Hamas…they’re hurting themselves.

@AlliFlowers If I were a resident of Gaza right now I would not go anywhere near IDF troops with a prisoner or want to be seen around them because the IDF would probably shoot me on general principles, of course I would give them back to Hamas.

And even if not I wouldn’t get anything by returning them to Israel, I’d still get bombed.

@MisuseCase You’d have made a great collaborator during WWII.

@AlliFlowers I’m Jewish and my great-grandfather’s family was killed by the Nazis so find something more original.