Hamas is treating hostages ‘as currency,’ says fmr. director of U.S. hostage rescue

Chris O’Leary, former director of hostage recovery for the U.S. government, discusses the status of hostage negotiations between Israel and Hamas and how likely future deals could be.
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[@KorilD]

...Not to sound cynical here, but isn't that the *point* of taking hostages? To use their safety as bargaining chips?

[@hannacook859]

Are you saying Israel should start grabbing Palestinian babies? I mean, the Hamas propaganda already says they take children (that is what Hamas call 18 year old men with blood in their hands) Are you suggesting Israel actually do it? I don't think it is a good idea. I think kidnapping civilians is bad.

[@rickyedwards5480]

Yes but you are supposed to claim your enemies are underneath the hostages.🤔

[@therealCombatCarlNY]

How has holding hostages worked for others in the past ??

[@KorilD]

@@therealCombatCarlNY Are you stupid? This video *says* that the use of hostages is effective - Hamas released hostages in exchange for Isreal doing the same. It's also *why the cease-fire happened at all.*

[@drt2555]

Exactly. They might be diabolical, but they have thought it through.

[@Fancy33370]

And let's talk about USA for a second, isn't it dealing with weapons like a currency too!

[@longfellow5276]

More like a shop owner.

[@cecileahkok1466]

A clear and respectable opinion.

[@spacechimp6442]

My sympathy for both Palestinian and Israeli is running thin.

[@mokahooj697]

how about israel

[@Stupiditas-stupido]

America also treat middle east as businesses as well

[@godsfatheramen]

And African , Asian and Hispanic

[@arturogarcia9946]

Money loundry like a cycle

[@youpibrad8609]

The aboriginal palestinians has more than 6000 of their freinds in isreali prisons and they want to free them. That simple math.

[@anastasia.remanova7777]

They aren't all innocents bro

[@smoking_monk3257]

Why can't you just say they stole babies and are selling them for ransom? Don't want to hurt feelings with the truth?

[@rickyedwards5480]

After Israel stole their homes.🤔 Just keeping it real.

[@arturogarcia9946]

Why they yousing heumans and not the government family members 🤔 I Guess

[@hakanali9537]

Free Palestine

[@hannacook859]

You mean the ottoman empire invaders who pretend to be indigenous despite the fact that all evidence points that Israelites and Jews were there for over 4000 years and Palestine has only popped up with the ottoman empire invasion? They are the colonisers, they are the invaders And you are uneducated. And no, Tik Tok and radical lectures from activists supporting jihad don't count. Go educate yourself.

[@Mrs.Deanna_Ember]

​@@hannacook859palestinians consist of Jews, Muslims, and Christians, so your arguement completely falls flat

[@bluemist3115]

from the world

[@hollymoore1495]

💔🍉✊🏼🇵🇸

[@djvirus5741]

why dont u show the real footage ? loool

[@HasaanQurashi-fi9zn]

Ammas falasten and islam zindabad

[@hollymoore1495]

🇵🇸💔✊🏼🍉

[@spacechimp6442]

What does that mean?

[@c.f.okonta8815]

It means support for Palestine

[@spacechimp6442]

@@c.f.okonta8815 I reconize the flag, but what does the watermelon have to do with anything?

[@c.f.okonta8815]

@@spacechimp6442 it a fruit that has the colors of the Palestinian flag

[@proplayer5391]

And IDF treating Palestinian Civilians as Human Animals ❤️❤️.

[@lisabruner7018]

You are brainwashed

[@anastasia.remanova7777]

Because they are honest and they show the truth of what horrible things they did, not like Hamas, always they try to show themselves as good person in front of Camera, but in the same time they killed hundreds of innocents people, men and women, young boys and young girls and teenagers... because they are Arabs... for me the both sides are terrorists, the difference is one is more powerful than the other one, so he do crimes more than his enemy, and the victims are always innocents from the both sides, in one more than the other of course .

[@carlosviajes]

Israel should just relocate all of the Gazans to Egypt. They're just Egyptians anyway.

[@Pascal9004]

They want to but Egypt won't allow it.

[@SK-fp8us]

Why don't we force you relocate you to Europe, you're European anyway....

[@carlosviajes]

@@Pascal9004 no need for permission, just send the Egyptians back to Egypt, the Jordanians back to Jordan and build the temple...

[@Pascal9004]

@@carlosviajes that will happen eventually, the Jews will not be defeated and God will bring forth the third temple.

[@c.f.okonta8815]

Egypt Jordan Lebanon and Saudi Arabia won’t take them

[@eugenef.6143]

Happy Hanukkah!!!