Hamas forced into 'survival mode' as renewed IDF offensive targets suspected HQ | Frontline

[@user-em2eb6bu6t]

A good interview with someone that knows what is actually happening.

[@Dee78584]

After seeing the condition that the hostages came back in and the sick mind games they played during the ceasefire - I don't think Israel will go any easier. Hamas are medieval

[@d2vid]

I nominate Jordan. They can stay with Queen Rania in some of her palaces.

[@jackdepalma]

GENEVA (25 March 2022) - A UN expert called today on the international community to accept and adopt the findings in his current report, echoing recent findings by Palestinian, Israeli and international human rights organisations, that apartheid is being practiced by Israel in the occupied Palestinian territory. “There is today in the Palestinian territory occupied by Israel since 1967 a deeply discriminatory dual legal and political system that privileges the 700,000 Israeli Jewish settlers living in the 300 illegal Israeli settlements in East Jerusalem and the West Bank,” said Michael Lynk, the UN Special Rapporteur for the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967.

[@fellclaw01]

@@jackdepalmathat’s awesome couldn’t happen to a nicer group of people lol. No one with a brain cares about Palestine after Oct 7

[@jeffible4651]

colonial occupation is wrong

[@Arthur327327]

Hamas is demonic

[@bellyfiore1]

Why aren’t the local people telling the IDF where Hamas is hiding..?

[@adamredwine774]

One of the captives escaped for about a day when he was trying to reach IDF troops. Locals who "have nothing to do with Hamas" captured him and returned him to Hamas.

[@paulmasterson386]

A recent poll showed that 60% of Gazans thought that the October attacks were justified,there’s the answer.

[@yolok3]

and how exactly do you think Israel is pinpointing Hamas commanders and taking them out?

[@downtoearth1950]

Because they are mostly hamas supporters

[@nelaa.7690]

When one of the hostages managed to escape and was hiding for 4 days on the streets of Gaza, the "peaceful civilians" caught him and brought back to H-s. And you're wondering why they don't cooperate with IDF😂

[@jon9625]

War is a calamity, which is why Hamas's provocation is so unforgiveable

[@jackdepalma]

I stand with victims of state financed violence. Ambulance drivers, doctors families , journalists and Basil and Adam...

[@mikeincalifornia]

War isn't always a calamity. Many times wars are fought for good purposes. Such as the war against the Nazis. This war is causing some suffering but when it's over all of the Palestinians will be gone from the areas west of the Jordan, they will have new homes somewhere, and the Jews will finally be safe on their land. It will probably take five to ten years, but good things take time.

[@ekosaptajie1940]

it's not a provocation but a form of resistance against colonialism and cruelty..how can you say it's a provocation are you blind to the oppression that the Palestinian people have experienced for 75 years..or are you just trying to make a justification for a genocide

[@daudmaybach7449]

@@mikeincaliforniaI find it scary how people who were treated like this not longer than 100 years ago are now doing the exact same thing that was done to them. “You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become a villain” - That’s Israel today, it could’ve been something beautiful after the holocaust. But instead has turned out to be the exact same thing they ran away from.

[@soakupthesunman]

@@ekosaptajie1940 🤣🤣🤣😂😂😅😅😅🤣🤣😂😂😂

[@Madman_MS]

@timesradio how about reporting on the civilians being targeted like the UNRWA doctor who held an Israeli hostage stolen by Hamas. He is paid by the UN and he is a civilian who is a combatant holding a hostage stolen by Hamas..makes him Hamas and his 10 children living in his house.

[@dlmsarge8329]

I'm learning that UNRWA has a lot to answer for. Edit: More and more it looks like it's an important funding source for Hamas.

[@patriciakimball8150]

@@dlmsarge8329Definitely.

[@paulmasterson386]

Hamas used Toyota vehicles in the October attacks;I presume that these are the same vehicles that were supplied by the United Nations for “humanitarian “ purposes. The biggest facilitator of Hamas is the UN.

[@elliotcohen2286]

The truth is thst israel is actually being extremely succesful in thr campaign which is why Hamas were begging for a ceasefire. Their breaking of the ceasefire and inviting round 2 is likely to be the nail in their coffin

[@user-zc4yd9ss7h]

You are making little sense. First you say Hamas are desperate for a ceasefire and then say they broke it. In reality, Israel were determined to re-start the war and Bibi N said this openly the day before.

[@elliotcohen2286]

@@user-zc4yd9ss7h they played too many games with the Qatari and Egyptians.. . Israel walked away

[@tariktachefin1888]

Nonsense.. Israel accepted the conditions imposed by Hamas since the 8th of October.. Israel thought that is going to achieve some goals quickly but the reality is different.. IDF is still struggling in the north despite the mass destruction.. hamas still operating from the north and yet they are keeping their best battalions and most trained combatants in the south.. don’t be fooled by Israeli narrative

[@hanadiyousef9005]

Exactly and that's why you will notice they have recently brought females soldiers they felt safer , at the first stages they did not

[@cycleholic58]

@@tariktachefin1888 ...but we observers of the conflict should be 'fooled' by your narrative right? It's as if you're a high ranking IDF officer freely and openly able to report on battle planning and allocation of strategic assets. Apologies, but I think the fool in the room is you sunshine.

[@spacecadet35]

I think Golda Meir stated it best :"Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us. ". It is sad that the Gazan's care so little for their children.

[@fellclaw01]

Palestinians are getting what they have always asked for

[@fellclaw01]

It’s not the arabs it’s Palestinians

[@spacecadet35]

​@@fellclaw01 - There is no difference. There has never been a country called Palestine.

[@nubtube7313]

It is obvious that Hamas' strategy to survive is to play the waiting game and hope that international pressure on Israel is able to save them. The pause was clearly a trade hostages for more time and supplies, but I think the number of hostages Israel was able to get out was well worth it even though it allows Hamas to hang-on longer.

[@psiclops521]

And to get more weapons. Ammo was brought it UNICEF containers. Time to put a stop to ALL humanitarian aid to Gaza unless inspected by the IDF.

[@barbaraschwimmer1338]

@NUBTUBE7313 image over security its a no-brainer

[@gordonspicer]

@@psiclops521 I read only one drone was found in UNICEF lorry. I doubt very much with their well versed Erez crossing technics of there was any ammunition or arms that got through that way. I'm not sure of the status of tunnels to Sinai. They were supposed to have been flooded with a no mans land created some time ago

[@eyemc2450]

Where should the Palestinian escape to? Egypt of course! Their Muslim brothers should take care of them!

[@spacecadet35]

Saudi Arabia has enough refuge camps to take them all. But all of the Arab nations know that if the allow Gazan refugees into their country, then the Gazans will try and overthrow their governments. There are historical examples of this actually happening

[@nelaa.7690]

This will never happen. In 1978, Israel offered Egypt to take Gaza back, it was declined. Egypt also blockaded Gaza for many years and assisted Israel to demolish the smuggling tunnels. They dont beed such a trouble.

[@Kingcarparpeggio]

Palestinians cause trouble wherever they go.They were forced from Jordan and Lebanon because of their behaviour. No Muslim country wants them either.

[@thehigherwhy4210]

Great interview: balanced with informed opinions, and people given time to actually go into details. Better TR.

[@jackdepalma]

Volker Türk Before being appointed Hight Commissioner for Human Rights , Volker Türk served as NHCR’s Assistant High Commissioner for Protection. Fighting resumed on Friday and hundreds of Palestinians have been killed by Israeli bombardments, he said, citing the Gaza Ministry of Health. No aid entered the enclave via the Rafah crossing with Egypt on Friday, and delivery on Saturday was restricted, further impacting humanitarian operations to support millions amid a scarcity of food, water, fuel and other basic essentials. No safe place Mr. Türk feared the renewed and intensified hostilities would lead to even more death, disease, and destruction. “As a result of Israel’s conduct of hostilities and its orders for people to leave the north and parts of the south, hundreds of thousands are being confined into ever smaller areas in southern Gaza without proper sanitation, access to sufficient food, water and health supplies, even as bombs rain down around them,” he said, adding “there is no safe place in Gaza.” He stressed that international law and human rights law uphold the protection of civilians and the facilitation of unimpeded humanitarian access to people in need. Concern for north Gaza The UN human rights chief also highlighted how hundreds of thousands of people remaining in northern Gaza are at renewed risk of bombardment and continue to be deprived of food and other essentials. He said this appalling situation and the orders to move south means people are essentially being forced to move in what appears to be an attempt to empty northern Gaza of Palestinians. “The world bore witness of week upon week of horror since this latest crisis began, marked by extremely grave concerns around wilful killing of civilians, firing of indiscriminate rockets, indiscriminate attacks using explosive weapons with wide-area effects in populated areas, forms of collective punishment, obstruction of humanitarian aid, and hostage-taking - all forbidden under international law,” he said. He added that extremely serious allegations of multiple and grave breaches of international law must be fully investigated and those responsible held to account. In cases where national authorities prove unwilling or unable to carry out such investigations and prosecutions, international investigation is necessary. Change course now He urged Member States to do everything in their power to ensure all parties comply with their obligations under international law and prevent the commission of international crimes.

[@macmcleod1188]

And then Hamas broke that cease fire by firing missiles at Israel after they had redeployed.

[@moshinafc9051]

That's according to isreal so it must be true. Just like they said the calendar in shifa hospital had names of hamas fighters lol

[@SohailMirza]

who said Hamas broke the cease fire..you idiot you believe anything

[@Hankblue]

@@moshinafc9051 And yet there were tunnels under the hospital, they literally sent journalists down there to film it. Did you just stop paying attention 3 weeks ago when you heard one soundbyte?

[@moshinafc9051]

@@Hankblue Didn't former isreali prime minister Ehud Barak say live on CNN the tunnels were built by Isreal in the 1980s as part of the hospital contruction🤔

[@evanroberts2771]

@@Hankblue The tunnels did NOT go under the hospital. CNN were taken into a tunnel, Even they questioned where it went as they didn't believe the spokesman. Did you just get the soundbyte and not the full piece? Even the BBC debunked the tunnel under Al Shifa. The evidence of the one with toilets etc? We are shown them going down a 'shaft' covered by 2 wooden pallets. They hid what the entrance actually is then there's an INSTANT cut to being in a tunnel they claim is under Al Shifa. They go in an entrance and go down about 2 meters and are 'suddenly' in a deep tunnel. That's where the cut is.

[@PhilipSalen]

Anshell Pfefer fantastic journalist!

[@jackdepalma]

Hiding Behind Home Schooling WashPo | Peter Jamison. A deep dive into how lax home education laws can enable and conceal child abuse, focused on the case of Roman Lopez, an 11-year-old who was tortured and eventually killed by his stepmom. (Read)

[@arnhem4479]

Clear, concise and informed reporting as alway s from Anshel Pfeffer.

[@jackdepalma]

So bs propaganda is able to inspire anger. The proof of hateful propaganda is missing. Hiding Behind Home Schooling WashPo | Peter Jamison. A deep dive into how lax home education laws can enable and conceal child abuse, focused on the case of Roman Lopez, an 11-year-old who was tortured and eventually killed by his stepmom. (Read)

[@jackdepalma]

Thinking like that you never will be safe.

[@marijuasher]

Hey Frontline. It's the Israel-Hamas conflict, not Israel-Gaza. Undrestanding starts with phrasing, and if you can't get the very start correct, then what good is the rest of the segment?

[@downtoearth1950]

I am amazed that Israel gives advanced warning when others including the USA do not 😡

[@buttyboy100]

They give misleading warnings to maximise casualties. A cynical tactic that is working well for their war crimes portfolio.

[@janesmith506]

Lots of information here. I'll need to listen again.

[@jackdepalma]

Distract from war crimes.

[@NapoleonGelignite]

If by Hamas you mean civilian population.

[@jackie4286]

An impressive interview, very informative.

[@Anna65909]

Absolute brilliant insight, detailed explanations and accurate observations

[@petergroenewoud4051]

Excellent interview and clear analysis

[@latamenon6758]

The setback is within 2million sinwat ,deif and other villisns are hiding in between. What surprise me and to be noted in spite of all these horrific tortures and being like Nomads ,none of the civilians are pinpointing Hamas,which they can easily expose to IDF soldiers Therefore ,all these civilians are so so radical !!!

[@user-cl8lo5lh2n]

They have always been on survival mode.....

[@themcgeachys]

Please stop showing a snippet,before the full interview what's the purpose of it

[@funkyyaya]

Hamas fired their 1st rocket at 5;43 and then fired a salvo of rockets..

[@YoungVeteran2023]

The conflict is Israel vs Hamas not Gaza...

[@Crouchy232323]

The IDF soldiers do not want to be fighting and dying in Gaza. Hamas does want the IDF to be fighting and dying in Gaza. If it was bleak for Hamas, Hizbollah would already have invaded.

[@r3negade47]

No they wouldn’t have. Whether Hamas is doing well or not the US and the IDF are more than capable of completely annihilating Hezbollah. The only reason Hamas are still alive in Gaza today is because they can hide in the civilian population and tunnels. No Arab state is coming to help Gaza. Only political will can do that.

[@soakupthesunman]

Hamass are fighting and dying by the hundreds in Gaza, hezbollah are fighting and dying by the hundreds in Lebanon... a country they are illegally occupying, by the way "palestinians" have made Lebanon a failed state.

[@MissinginMiami]

Smh 🤦🏾‍♂️

[@JanKowalski-gr9ey]

Where there any hostages in tunnels destroyed by idf?

[@sylverbenn7406]

Do not add apostrophe and (s) to a word ending in a , add the apostrophe only

[@fathivessel8107]

American hubris think they can win Vietnam, they lost. American hubris think they can win Afghanistan, they lost. American hubris think they can win Ukraine, they lost. American hubris think they can win Palestine, well, they will lose.

[@nelaa.7690]

There is one small nuance😂 As a state, Palestine does not exist and has never existed. This is the name of land. The war is against H-s, the terroristic organisation, or maybe you wanna state that H-s equals all palestinians?

[@martinoneill5804]

In a military context it’s hardly a fair fight, Hamas against two of the most sophisticated military powers in the world. Israel and USA two nuclear powers. It’s easy to be a bully if you are 100 times more powerful than your enemy. The idea that Hamas is going to wipe out Israel is laughable. Israel fell asleep or did it.

[@MissinginMiami]

If they were Winning I don’t see it smh 🤦🏾‍♂️

[@erdo2005]

I hope there will be peace soon for all people in Israel and Palestine in terms of equality and respect. I hope the Israeli people will manage to get rid of their neo-fascist government and of Hamas. I really hope there will be a fair solution for all religions and ethnicities in Palestine after these brutal events and the brutal war against civilians in Gaza.

[@Omega13_channel]

You appear to have little knowledge of Israel and middle eastern politics.

[@ticthak]

@@Omega13_channel There's no reason to hope for an already existing situation to exist or to continue, it's positive to hope humans might start acting as anything but the destructive psychopaths they continually prove to be by their actions. That MIGHT not be the civilians dying in Gaza, or elsewhere in the world, it CERTAINLY applies to Hamas and the Likud-controlled Israeli government (especially Bibi).

[@Omega13_channel]

@@ticthak how do you know how I feel or what I think. What knowledge do you have about Israel?

[@mesutthegent]

The Palestinians are used to survival mode since 75 years

[@tussoon1390]

If the so-called "Palestinians" had abandoned their painful and only dream of destroying Israel, they would not have to pay for it.

[@FontaineDerby]

​@tussoon1390 Netanyahu said "Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas … This is part of our strategy - to isolate the Palestinians in Gaza from the Palestinians in the West Bank.” March 2019, Netanyahu told his Likud colleagues the above. Likud Party: Original Party Platform (1977) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; BETWEEN THE SEA AND THE JORDAN THERE WILL ONLY ISRAELI SOVEREIGNTY b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace Brig. Gen. Yitzhak Segev, who was the Israeli military governor in Gaza in the early 1980s. Segev later told a New York Times reporter that he had helped finance the Palestinian Islamist movement as a “counterweight” to the secularists and leftists of the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Fatah party, led by Yasser Arafat (who himself referred to Hamas as “a creature of Israel.”) “The Israeli government gave me a budget,” the retired brigadier general confessed, “and the military government gives to the mosques.” “Hamas, to my great regret, is Israel’s creation,” Avner Cohen, a former Israeli religious affairs official who worked in Gaza for more than two decades, told the Wall Street Journal in 2009. Back in the mid-1980s, Cohen even wrote an official report to his superiors warning them not to play divide-and-rule in the Occupied Territories, by backing Palestinian Islamists against Palestinian secularists. “I … suggest focusing our efforts on finding ways to break up this monster before this reality jumps in our face,” he wrote. Sources: Hansard Israel/Gaza Volume 833: debated on Tuesday 24 October 2023 For years, Netanyahu propped up Hamas. Now it’s blown up in our faces - The premier’s policy of treating the terror group as a partner, at the expense of Abbas and Palestinian statehood, has resulted in wounds that will take Israel years to heal from By TAL SCHNEIDER Times of Israel 8 October 2023, 3:58 pm Netanyahu: Money to Hamas part of strategy to keep Palestinians divided Jerusalem Post 12 March 2019

[@jon9625]

Palestinians watching the present and future pass by while firmly stuck in the past

[@timeames2509]

Stop deleting my comments! They aren't breaking any rules! Got it!

[@Madman_MS]

If only the surrounding Arab nations didn’t hate the Palestinians those 75 years ago and when they attacked Israel. Then again in 56, 63 the Arabs invaded and then again in 73. After each invasion they said they wouldn’t invade. If only they hadn’t invaded the Palestinians could be living in peace then and now but maybe they like this life better.

[@rmzidann]

This guy sounds like an Afrikaner from South Africa, who immigrated to Israel after the fall of apartheid. He’s probably not even a Jew, but converted so he can go and live out his racist fantasies.

[@naomiharbour7841]

You poor desperate man. Seem to know in advance you wouldn't be able to handle the truth, so instead of simply researching, you choose to dream up a background. I bet you do this all the time.

[@dsds173]

How are you going to send text messages to people with no power???

[@adamredwine774]

Go watch the video of hostages being released. Crowds of Gazans were filming it on their cellphones.

[@dsds173]

So everyone is Gaza has a cellphone

[@Omega13_channel]

The IDF dropped leaflets as well

[@adamredwine774]

@@dsds173 no. But enough people do. You don’t get to complain about the density of people in Gaza and then pretend that they are incapable of talking to each other.

[@jackdepalma]

And Dutch debate to send parts for USA JETS to end bombing civilians. And are the Israeli Defense Forces using white phosphorus when they bomb civilian targets in a blockaded Gaza? War crimes need distractions.

[@SupremeSkeptic]

Hamas build such amazing tunnels Why not use the tunnels to Israel's advantage? Why make them unusable?

[@jackdepalma]

Hamas sees Israel but can also return violence. Learning violence from 75 years of treachery. Israel calls its army defensive and hamas terror. But to bomb blockaded civilians with us bombs is not war. It is state terror on civilians with offensive war.

[@philiphorrocks6107]

stop this genocide

[@macmcleod1188]

Only it's not. It's "Horrors of war". The rates don't even get close to ww2 yet. And the people of Gaza are not the IDF's enemy. And the IDF has no *intent* to eliminate them. Go get a dictionary for cripe's sake. Use your brain.

[@macmcleod1188]

Oct 7 was an act of war. It's war now.

[@kopeducati]

Read “bloodlands” and “the fall of berlin” . Learn what war is before ypur cheering on and mistaken solidarity triggers one

[@jon9625]

Use a dictionary for correct meaning

[@Madman_MS]

Yes!! Stop Hamas killing their own!!

[@ekosaptajie1940]

how could hamas lose to soldiers in diapers

[@Nilonam-ze3dd]

The 50 hamas fighters that were obliterated by an all women IDF soldiers tank crew during the October 7 hamas attack would strongly disagree with you.

[@ekosaptajie1940]

@@Nilonam-ze3dd and IDF tanks shot at their own soldiers and citizens because they panicked and showed how incompetent the IDF soldiers were apart from fighting civilians, especially women and babies.. you lying nation.

[@ulfsoderberg2581]

There are 2 dead children,Israel would not take them. The women are Soldiers.

[@nenasiek]

Israel dont belive hamas claiming that, they point out that theres already one hostage that they said was dead and was then handed over.

[@ulfsoderberg2581]

@@nenasiek It was the Israeli army that told the poor father that his doughter was killed. You mean the Hand family?

[@nenasiek]

​@@ulfsoderberg2581hamas claimed that the hostage was dead, israel then told the family, hamas then handed her over. Again hamas stated that the hostage was dead when that wasnt the case, this is why israel dobt belive hamas when they say there are no more women and children. I have no idea if that right or not, just pointing out israels argument

[@ulfsoderberg2581]

@@nenasiek Wrong

[@ulfsoderberg2581]

@@nenasiek If it is the way you say. Why didnt Israel accept to take the kids.

[@jackdepalma]

GENEVA (25 March 2022) - A UN expert called today on the international community to accept and adopt the findings in his current report, echoing recent findings by Palestinian, Israeli and international human rights organisations, that apartheid is being practiced by Israel in the occupied Palestinian territory. “There is today in the Palestinian territory occupied by Israel since 1967 a deeply discriminatory dual legal and political system that privileges the 700,000 Israeli Jewish settlers living in the 300 illegal Israeli settlements in East Jerusalem and the West Bank,” said Michael Lynk, the UN Special Rapporteur for the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967.

[@FabulousPepper]

UN is unfortunately totally biased nowadays. Think about which country chairs the committee for Human rights? Iran ! What a joke, isn't it?

[@nelaa.7690]

How many time are you going to copy-paste this piece?😂😂 everybody knows that UN is backing H-s for years

[@jasonl8326]

Looks like you're stuck on repeat lol

[@jackdepalma]

@@jasonl8326 Israel is not a member of the International Criminal Court (ICC), and Israeli authorities have not said whether they intend to prosecute Hamas militants for war crimes. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly condemned ICC investigations of war crimes allegedly perpetrated by Israeli and Palestinian forces in the occupied Palestinian territories. Sounds like propaganda in place of clear compelling evidence.

[@jackdepalma]

@@jasonl8326 looks like genocide from here today but to add to your distractions I repeat...High-profile Republican divisions have emerged over the GOP’s quixotic push to impeach President Biden despite an absence of any direct evidence of presidential wrongdoing. With newly minted House Speaker Mike Johnson pushing full speed ahead with impeachment, moderate Republicans are warning against the dangers of launching what voters will see as a politically motivated sham impeachment in the middle of a presidential campaign. Even Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, not normally known for pulling partisan punches, said the Republican-led House of Representatives should stick to its day job of legislating solutions to everyday American problems.

[@ulfsoderberg2581]

How can you speak half an hour, whitout mention that 16.000 civilians are killed

[@paulmasterson386]

How can you speak without mentioning the 100k plus Muslims who have been killed by Assad and the Houthis? I don’t remember mass protests about their deaths.

[@TauCeti973]

How does it feel to be an ostrich who can post a comment on KZbin?

[@jackdepalma]

​@@TauCeti973propaganda and trolls DO feel like that.

[@FabulousPepper]

Numbers of casualties are provided by Hamas apparatus and not considered as reliable

[@kristinverge9889]

How about the 500,000 Syrians and the 300,000 Iraqi civilians killed in the wars there right now? Don't see anyone protesting for them. Nobody cares when muslims are doing the killing. Sorry forgot about Yemen. 377,000.

[@s6edge706]

For context - america took a month of negotiations before it invaded afghanistan. Russia took months before its started bombing ukraine. Whereas IDF started carpet bombing immediately. It wasnt about hostages, it was about bruised ego.

[@adamredwine774]

Well damn your memory is short. Israel did not enter Gaza for 20 DAYS after Gaza started this war.

[@darkpurpleshadow3240]

@@adamredwine774 You have poor comprehension, he said carpet bombing. That happened immediately in fact it happened prior to October the 7th on many occasions - mowing the lawn(Dahiya) they call it. Israel is a war criminal state.

[@gordonspicer]

and Germany on a pretext went straight in Poland without 5 minutes negotiations. Japan ditto on Pearl Harbour. At least Israel did it to prevent such outrage never likely to happen again! nothing to do with ego. Survival yes !