Maybe, I mean that would be exactly the sort of data I would expect my intelligence services to acquire. Especially in a place like Egypt that has suffered so much from the crimes of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Given the support in the West, I think it's unlikely that sanctions on Gaza would be politically viable.
But sanctions on Gaza similar to the ones we put on Venezuela to force an election should absolutely be considered.
Actually: why not let memebers of Hamas surrender themselves at the border? If it's a war, accepting voluntary POWs should be a net positive
Members of Hamas are considered part of the Muslim Brotherhood (as they started as an offshoot). And because of the mass murder and shit the Brotherhood has done in Egypt over the years; they've been summarily banned. So Hamas members are not allowed to enter Egypt.
That's part of why Hamas had to supply a list of names before sending them so Egypt could ensure no Hamas members were part of the list.
That's a good point.
Oh no worries. I wrote it.
Oh I'm not really that skeptical of the report. Hamas has done this multiple times before.
Eliminating Israel == calling for a genocide.
Did you read the articles on it? Are you aware of what happened on Oct 7? Advocating for the repeated indiscriminate killing, raping and enslavement of civilians is calling for a genocide.
I don't think we have the same definitions of genocide if mass murder and rape isn't part of yours.
But is it genocide if it's evicting the colonizers? What if it's been 50 years? A hundred?
Yes. To all of them yes.
Like if it was 1946, there's be no question that supporting the partition plan Britian was working on would be a bad idea.
But to call for the return of the land to Israeli would be the equivalent of calling for the return of the Dakotas to the Lakota in 1960/70s (during the AIM movement). Or calling for the eviction of all whites from Oklahoma in the 1970/80s.
That's about the same 70-80 year timeframe from "original sin" to today that we have going on in the West Bank.
Oh they (Hamas leadership) explicitly have called for genocide separately too. In another place in this thread I linked an article where their spokesman said their goal was to continue to do more Oct 7 attacks until all the Jews were killed.
Historically, I know that a big way that the dissemination of these sort of images was stopped was by using copyright law (because they're using the likeness of the subject). I'm worried how that will work if there's no copyright law to fall back in.
There's an estimated 40,000 strong Hamas army in the Gaza strip. That army has leaders and infrastructure on the ground in the Strip and was used to attack Israel on their big attack.
Eliminating the ability for that army to conduct operations is Israel's goal. Just because their (Hamas) top political and military leaders are based in Quatar doesn't mean Hamas isn't in the Gaza Strip.
So no, it's not an organization based outside of Gaza.
But you're not entitled to enter Egypt to get it if your a member of Hamas, as the Muslim Brotherhood and it's offshoots are banned there.