On October 7, 2023, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh went on Qatari television and called on every Muslim in the world to join Hamas’s war against Israel. Throughout the day, Gazans were pouring into Israel, carrying out barbaric atrocities, taking grandmothers and young girls as hostages, and posting videos for the world to see. From the safety of their underground tunnels, Hamas guys were firing thousands of rockets at Israeli population centers. Nobody in Qatar thought it might be wise at this moment to say: “Hey wait a second, we shouldn’t give a platform to the organization that is burning Israeli families to death in their homes right now. Hamas must stop this. Release all the hostages immediately and without conditions.” That’s because Qatar was thrilled that Hamas was able to execute such an operation. Qatar wanted to help Hamas secure the release of convicted Palestinian terrorists from Israeli prisons AND ensure that the masterminds of the massacre would remain in power and in a position to do it all again. That is always what Qatar had in mind when it used the word “deal.”
Mehdi Hasan’s goal is to delegitimize ANY attempt to physically harm a Hamas member. He does not think it was right for Israel to kill a single Hamas fighter in Gaza. He does not think the October 7 Massacre justified ANY Israeli military response in Gaza. The rest is noise.
Hamas offered to release them on day one, as now know, and Israel refused because they wanted war and vengeance over saving the hostages. This is now well established and proven, despite the lies from shills like you over the past three years