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>>anigbr+(OP)
Coming from Europe and living in the US for the last couple of years, I'm shocked at how society here is clearly pro-israel.

It is very clear that in the US the life of an israel citizen is valued way above the one of a palestinian. It is sad to lose that level of humanity.

all of the discourse also conveniently ignores that Israel created a large-scale open-air prison in Gaza and removed any hope left for people living there.

>>goalon+pL
It seems like Hamas values one Palestinian less than one Israeli. This is based on prisoner exchanges. Hamas gives up one Israeli prisoner for more than one Palestinian. Most recently it was 2:1, but historically it was 100:1 or more.

>>marcel+5X
This is silly right? It isn’t like Hamas demanded this ratio, or that they forced Israel to accept. Should Hamas refuse out of principle if Israel gave them prisoners for free?

On the contrary it seems more like a power play on Israel’s part. “Take our prisoners we will just defeat them again!”

>>timeag+Td1
> It isn’t like Hamas demanded this ratio

thats exactly what its like. If israel wanted their hostages back they needed to give up twice as many palestinian prisoners.