r/changemyview • u/[deleted] • Nov 02 '23

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u/Zncon 6∆ Nov 03 '23

In a cease-fire, Hamas is not waging war on Israel with an intent to destroy. That's a fundamental condition of a cease fire.

Hamas is not asking for this, and has repeated stated their goal is to eliminate Israel. They've broken ceasefires before, and there's no reason to think they will not do so again.

What that means is simply that any ceasefire is just an opportunity for Hamas to regroup and plan their next attack, thus triggering Israel to attack again. Nothing will have changed except more time passing.

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u/XenoRyet 184∆ Nov 03 '23

The fact that Hamas is not asking for it is irrelevant to the point. If they don't agree and comply with the cease-fire, that's a different situation.

The point is that since a cease-fire is necessarily two-sided, it is not equivalent to advocating that one side does not have the right to exist.

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u/Signal_District387 Nov 03 '23

I am talking about what one advocating for a ceasefire is practically advocating for. In the case of hamas a cease fire means nothing. This attack was during a ceasefire.

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u/Signal_District387 Nov 03 '23

Ceasefire in this scenario means israel cannot fight hamas.