Historically you've shipped them to a neutral nation (like Switzerland) who negotiated their return to their home country on the condition that they not be allowed to rejoin the war effort either for the duration of the war or for a specific time.
None of these things are solutions that haven't been seen before.
Because now they'll be pursued for the rest of their life. Free a hostage and you have essentially a get out of jail free card.
What is the source or evidence the hostages were executed?
They released an autopsy. What the frack do people want?
"Civilian" hostages. Israel has compulsory military service. And a reasonable chunk of those taken hostage were active or reservist military members.
So no, not all.
I was alive and politically active in 2004/2005. There was a legitimate belief that the pullout would be a blueprint for peace.
The path to zero settlements and zero settlement violence is peace in Gaza. As long as Hamas keeps breaking cease fires, the political factions who are advocating for the end of West Bank Settlements will never gain power and will never be able to implement a pullout.
Did you comprehend this section? There's a faction in Israel that is pro 2 state solution. Unless that faction takes power, Israel will never roll back it's West Bank Settlements. Since that faction is responsible for the pullout in Gaza, the Israeli body-politic is not going to vote them into power until the Gaza Strip is peaceful.
The settlements represent land-grabbing, and land-grabbing and peace-making don’t go together, it is one or the other.
The faction that was against that in Israel implemented the Gaza pullout. You're right it is one of the other. Advocating for Gazan violence is defacto advocating for settlements.
You're just straight up defending Settler Colonialism.
I'm doing the opposite. The path to zero settlements and zero settlement violence is peace in Gaza. As long as Hamas keeps breaking cease fires, the political factions who are advocating for the end of West Bank Settlements will never gain power and will never be able to implement a pullout.
As long as we in the West continue to invest massive dollars into Gaza and just accept that they use it to find their war machine, were perpetuating the settlement situation in the West Bank.
We can deny patterns in human behavior as long as we want to. But Israel's body politic will never accept a two state solution while their two state solution experiment has a hundred hostages and openly says they want to bomb, attack and rape them again. Stop being a child.
They withdrew the Gaza settlers into the West Bank and used the Oslo Accords to justify the ever expanding settlement of the West Bank
Two different leadership coalitions. The coalition responsible for pulling settlers out of Gaza lost power because of the massive failure that was. And the alternative coalition (still in power today btw) who advocated for increased settlements in Gaza and in the West Bank won power.
Look at the numbers between 2000-2005 on this chart. The growth (192k, 226k, 249k) over that 5-year span is congruent with the growth you'd expect from a slightly younger-than-average population and a small ingress of settlers. Over half of that growth occurred in the three biggest West Bank settlements established before the Gaza pullout. So certainly some settlers in Gaza likely relocated to established settlements in the West Bank but not a significant chunk. Additionally, look at the settlements they pull out of in Northern Samaria (in the West Bank). They did that to prove that pullout was a viable option. Yes those settlements were small, but there's like 50 settlements smaller than the largest that they pulled out of.
And if you look at the biggest 10 settlements on that list, it makes up over half of the total population of Israeli settlers. And they're all like 15 miles or less from the '67 border. It's legitimately plausible for Israel to pull 50% of it's settlers out of the West Bank and fully pull out of 85% of the land area of the West Bank in just a couple of months. And more importantly, there is an active political coalition attempting to do that in Israel. But every rocket, every suicide bomber, every organized rape, every hostage prevents them from being able to be a big force again politically in Israel; because they're still seen as being responsible for the boondoggle that is Gaza.
You're mistake (and the HRW's mistake) is believing that the group of Israeli's responsible for pulling out of Gaza is the same group responsible for expanding into the West Bank. They're opposing groups. And as long as Gaza is non-peaceful; the group advocating for expanding into the West Bank is going to continue to win.
Small correction, Israel hasn't occupied the Gaza strip since 2005. Over the course of 2004 & 2005 the withdrew behind the 1967 borders, and evicted several sizeable Jewish settlements and settlers at gunpoint. And ceased their military occupation of Gaza.
And at the same time they withdrew from a handful of small settlements in the West Bank to show that they were serious about following a similar path across that significantly large chunk of territory.
But the point is that this recent war and violence is not caused by an occupation of Gaza.
Undoubtedly Harris is an improvement compared to Biden.
I used M365's' Copilot. And I asked it to bullet point summarize the article's text.
This is a massively false statement. And it's one that should make you reconsider your viewpoint from the ground up.
I don't know if a more incorrect statement could be made about this conflict.