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Joe Keysor's avatar

Many thousands of American citizens and POWs were in Japanese prison camps during WW2, yet the main foreign policy goal was not to secure the release of the hostages. It was to defeat imperial Japan. American citizens were suffering and dying in terrible conditions in Japanese camps but, again, the goal was to defeat Japan. When that was accomplished, and only then, the surviving American prisoners were released.

It has been estimated that as many as 13,000 Union soldiers died in Andersonville, the notorious Confederate prison camp. The survivors were freed when the Confederacy was beaten and surrendered.

Israel's first and primary goal should have been to destroy Hamas with as much speed as possible. International complications made that difficult, I have no idea how much more could have been accomplished with a stronger and more determined Israeli leadership.

Allowing Hamas to remain will cause more suffering and more death in the long run, not less. Unless, of course, the terms of the current agreement are broken.

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Just plain Rivka's avatar

Hamas is evil. Pure evil.

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