For good reason.
So your argument is that they should just ignore the hostages taken?
I hope so! Looking forward to the writeup at the end!
More accurately though the Hamas faction promised to bring an accurate count of still alive hostages to the negotiations and then reneged on that promise.
That's objectively untrue. Ukraine has like a dozen Gaza's right now. And Sudan is a worse environment where there's multiple simultaneous genocides happening right now.
Egypt and Qatar promised Israel that if it sent a delegation to Doha this week for talks on the humanitarian aspects of the proposed deal, they would bring answers from Hamas on which hostages are still alive and put pressure on the group to be flexible on the number of Palestinians prisoners it demands to be released as part of any agreement.
From an article that came out today. Hamas won't even attempt to confirm the hostages it has.
Not necessarily, there is nothing saying that a strong democracy will result in a big government. Just like there is nothing preventing authoritarians from having a big government.
In theory, maybe that's true. But that's not the intention, design or historical reality of the situation.
I will agree though, if you are authoritarian, you probably don’t want a big government, it is just easier to threaten and enact violence against your people to get the outcomes you want.
Maybe but you definitely don't want a heavily Federalized government. Federalization always diminishes the power of a central government.
A "stronger democracy" at least in the context of modern Republics does mean a stronger central government; especially when implemented from a Western "Liberal" party. The thing is, in that these systems the choice isn't (or at least Pre-Trump wasn't) between a dictator and a democracy. It was a decision between federalization and centralization. Between limitations on a legislative branch of government or mob rule.
Strong Democracies gave us things like Jim Crow. Strong power delegation gave us things like Brown vs. Board of Education.
A more powerful democracy leads to more centralization. Because a more powerful democracy is a more powerful government. When you increase the size and scope of the things that a central government can control you by definition increase it's power.
And what terms do you propose that would be observed by Hamas?