We’ve seen this before. In every prior round of fighting — 1. Operation Cast Lead (December 27, 2008 – January 18, 2009) 2. Operation Pillar of Defense (November 14–21, 2012) 3. Operation Protective Edge (July 8 – August 26, 2014) 4. and Operation Guardian of the Walls (May 10–21, 2021)
Hamas used international pressure for ceasefires not to lay down arms, but to regroup, rearm, and dig deeper into Gaza’s civilian infrastructure.
Each ceasefire became a strategic pause, not a step toward peace. October 7 was the result. Whose fault Israeli communities murdered and hostages taken?
Originally Posted by Capri
Failure of policies set by the Netanyahu political leadership and Shin Bet asleep at the wheel despite numerous Red Flags and Warnings by Border spotters IDF colossal failures when October 7 happened utterly unprepared.
Now, with the war approaching a decisive phase and the IDF dismantling the core of Hamas’s operational capacity, the terror group is betting once again that international pressure will save it.
That hostages and humanitarian suffering — deliberately prolonged and manipulated by Hamas — will force Israel to back down. This is not a miscalculation on Hamas’s part. It is their only hope.
Even if Hamas returned every hostage tomorrow but remained the de facto armed leadership in Gaza, it would not change the strategic calculus. In fact, it would mark a Hamas victory.
The group would have proven that taking civilians — children, elderly, women, and foreign nationals — can yield tangible political results — that the international community will pressure a democratic state to halt a war of self-defense in exchange for hostages who should never have been taken.
That leverage can be gained not through negotiation, but through atrocity. No nation can allow hostage-taking to become an accepted currency of warfare. To do so would invite it everywhere.
Whose fault Israeli communities murdered and hostages taken? 
