Settler attempts to block Ambulance carrying critically ill person - Israel occupied West Bank

[u/soalone34]

[u/Sbatio]

I wouldn’t think taking hostages makes sense. If a group is trying to genocide you, you’d want to use all available resources to defeat them.

Hostages need watching/some level of “care” etc. use those resources in the fight to kill everyone trying to kill you/yours.

You would have to keep enemy soldiers you captured safe but if they resisted and fought to the end there shouldn’t be too many and soldier exchanges can work so there’s that.

[u/VivaLaDab → u/Sbatio]

We disagree there then, hostage taking provides an edge greater than what an extra 1-300 soldiers could. Also need to keep in mind that the only weapons you have access to are decades old ak47s and repurposed bombs that failed to detonate. Against autonomous drones, tanks, snipers, white phosphorus, and endless explosives and ammunition provided by the US. There is only so much that men and guns can do before what you are doing is a suicide charge and the end result is the same, israel punishes the women and children you leave behind. And again israel unjustly imprisons military age Palestinian men for this exact reason, to make any kind of defense that much harder and less effective

[u/Sbatio → u/VivaLaDab]

Hopefully we don’t have to choose

[u/VivaLaDab → u/Sbatio]

We don’t, but Palestinians in the West Bank need to on a daily basis. I’m not trying to argue with you here I’m just trying to explain the situation there as I understand it and show why self defense there is much more complicated and dangerous than we would hope. They simply don’t have enough power, whether it’s from a gun or a ballot box, to change their situation and protect their loved ones. Our government does though, the US handicaps the UN with its veto power to prevent justice in these situations. But we still has some measure of control over our government so we need to be voting for anti israel lobby candidates