It is the people of Israel and Palestine who matter, not the leaders who are subjecting the people to untold brutalities before the eyes of the whole world.
Hamas can’t see the hundreds of thousands of Israelis who have condemned their government for the plight of its people who are held in captivity. It is madness for Hamas to announce that those hostages would be subjected to tighter control just to defy the tactics of the Israeli prime minister who wants to justify that razing Gaza to the ground is the best means to rescue the hostages. The character of a leadership is determined by the way it handles the affairs of its hostages. Anybody who kills a hostage in cold blood is a damn right fascist. All those people who are trained in the school of national liberation would treat hostages as brothers and sisters so that when they release them their conscience would compel them to promote the course of national liberation so that they would enjoy peace and happiness with those who were once oppressed and brutalized.
If hostages are killed anytime the Netanyahu government tries to release them, soon there will be no hostages to use as a base for negotiation. Hence to release all the hostages alive is more tactically correct and humane than to be killing them piece meal just to defy the threat of occupation. Killing hostages is a senseless tactic that should be abandoned.
On the other hand, the US Justice Department defies logic by identifying a brutally assassinated Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas, whose two children are also brutally assassinated, as a terrorist who ought to be tried while the US Congress warmly welcomes the leader of an Israeli government whose genocidal action has led to the murder of over 40,000 Palestinians. It would have been best to keep the this US indictment secret until after a two state solution to the Palestinian Israeli conflict has been implemented to prevent anyone whose hand is bloody to emerge as a leader of Israel or Palestine in the future.
A justice system that is not even handed will not help to manage and resolve a crisis that has brought untold suffering to the Israeli and Palestinian people. Both need a voice that even handedly speaks for them and the Harris campaign risks alienating the Palestinians if the US Justice Department continues to use a belligerent language against one group while ignoring the murder of over 40,000 people.
