A top Hamas political official told The Associated Press the Islamic militant group is willing to agree to a truce of five years or more with Israel and that it would lay down its weapons and convert into a political party if an independent Palestinian state is established along pre-1967 borders.

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      What is it with your constant attempts at whitewashing Hamas? There were four alerts in Israel due to rockets launched from Gaza on that same day.

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        That day was at the start of the ceasefire.

        The Hamas rockets were after the ceasefire.

        Notice the week in between?

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        He needs it as background for his “Voting for Biden is voting for genocide”-LARPing. In my opinion he’s a rightwinger trying to muddy the waters (as if Trump would do fuck all about Gaza)

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      There was an effective ceasefire before 7th October (apart from the random rockets fired Israel’s way) that was broken pretty badly. Making a ceasefire deal with terrorists that attacked you and took hostages and will never stop attacking you makes no sense.

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          Nobody fights back? You’re having a laugh. They attack Israel constantly. That’s their faith and their purpose to get to paradise. Stop ignoring what they actually say

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            Israel just “defended themselves” onto Palestinian land and those Untermensch in their concentration camp should shut up and do nothing back for the rest of their lives! How dare Palestinians resist against their brutal oppressors! They should roll over and die in without fighting back like PA does in the West Bank!

            But anyways, what was that about a ‘ceasefire’ before oct7?

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              You’re a terrorist sympathiser. They are not fighting in resistance because they’re oppressed. They’re trying to wipe out Israel because their holy book tells them to.

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                Oh look your entire argument got destroyed now it’s over to ad-hominems and verbatim Hasbara.

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          Effective ceasefire = israel commits Genocide and nobody fights back?

          Keep moving those goalposts.

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            Did you read the date before jumping in to defend israel? Not a single goalpost has been moved here.

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              From “Holsum Hamas would never break ceasefires!” to “Well the so-called ‘ceasefires’ are just cover for Israeli genocide anyway”

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                Except Hamas did not break the ceasefire only israel did.

                There was no ceasefire extension because israel didn’t want to.