Watching all the back and forth diplomacy as though the 134 hostages are just balls in a ping pong game for Hamas and Qatar, and yes, the UN and the US and the EU and our supposed "allies" to play with. Tools to beat Israel with. Weapons of diplomacy to force Israel to choose in a sick trolley problem.
Even if we don't personally know these 134 Israel hostages they are our people, our family. And we want them home now safe and well.
And the message shouldn't be "bring them home", like if only Israel wanted it enough it could happen. Their freedom is a choice of the bad guys who invaded our country and kidnapped our people and are holding them hostage. The message has to be "Let my people go!!" - Hamas and co who kidnapped them have to release them, let them go, no terms.
Hamas are criminals who kidnapped children, women and men, young and old, and carried them off to Gaza like chattel, paraded them in Gaza as booty, as spoils of war, as "things", just because they were Israeli. They poured over the Israeli border and stole vehicles and livestock - and people, living and dead.
It is on Hamas to let the hostages go, and that is the message Hamas should be hearing from Qatar and Egypt and the US, the UN, the EU, the British and every nation in the world which considers itself a decent member of the family of nations. Not that our hostages are pawns to be toyed with. Not that Israel has to give and take. Not that Israel should be forced to choose between letting Hamas regroup to mount another October 7 or getting the hostages released. Let my people go. Now.
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