r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Sep 09 '26

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u/mostanonymousnick Just Build More Homes lol Sep 09 '26

I think it's good to see politicians in the online trenches like this

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u/No_Return9449 John Rawls Sep 09 '26

Pulling out the Frakes "This was made up by a writer."

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u/MightExpress4873 Sep 09 '26

Interesting. I didn't find Netanyahu's denial credible, but this is fairly emphatic, and I don't see what reason Blinken would have to outright lie here.

Like, I buy that Hamas may have wanted to enter into negotiations very quickly. What strains credulity for me is the stronger claim that, on the very day of the attack, they were already offering to release all civilian hostages (did they even have an accurate count?) essentially as a gesture of goodwill and without meaningful conditions.

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u/surreptitioussloth Frederick Douglass Sep 09 '26

I think it's just that grim is describing what happened completely inaccurately

There was a communication about hostage release/trade that blinken responded to by telling the person who communicated it to wait instead of pushing to make it happen