The U.S., Israel’s top ally, said it instead hopes to broker a cease-fire and hostage-release agreement between Israel and Hamas, and envisions a wider resolution on the war sparked by the militant group’s Oct. 7 attack. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called Hamas’ demands “delusional.”

Netanyahu also opposes Palestinian statehood, which the U.S. calls a key element in a broader vision for the normalization of relations between Israel and regional heavyweight Saudi Arabia. His Cabinet adopted a declaration Sunday saying Israel “categorically rejects international edicts on a permanent arrangement with the Palestinians” and opposes any unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state.

Netanyahu has vowed to continue the Gaza offensive until Israel achieves a “total victory” over the Hamas militant group and plans to expand it to Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah, where more than half the enclave’s 2.3 million Palestinians have sought refuge.

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          There’s a major difference between attacking armed military targets during a war, and bombing hospitals full of innocent people.

          If you’re going to take all the subtly out of the conversation, then by that same stroke all Palestinians are responsible for the actions of Hamas, which means everything Israel is doing is justifiable, which you and I both know is plain wrong.

          You can’t have your cake and eat it too - either attacking civilians is always wrong or it isn’t - and I’d rather stand on the side of not justifying killing innocent people.

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          I get where you are coming from truly.

          Remember that everyone woke up on 10/8 and kept the innocent hostages that had nothing to do with it.

          They did not.

          At that point they could have uninvolved they innocents and shown everyone their true intentions, and that they only wanted to involve Israel.

          They didn’t.

          Let’s be real, 1 phone call to the US government and you would have an extraction team to get our people out easier than a slick shit.

          They didn’t.

          They chose to keep the innocents.

          Fuck hummus and fuck israel

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          Since you’re ok with war crimes, what are you complaining about? if Oct 7 was ok, then what ever retribution Israel drops on Gaza is ok too. Palestinians are responsible for Palestine’d actions.

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        Yet you’re silent on the 30,000 dead civilians Israel has killed in the last few months, and instead say Palestinians should help Israel.