What do you think world leaders should've done differently?

sdenton4 an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Cut off weapon gifts+sales to Israel, impose sanctions. Same way we dealt with the South African apartheid state.

	▲	dboreham 16 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Israel has both nuclear weapons and the Epstein files, so that's not really an option (granted: SA had nuclear weapons too, but nobody really to drop them on).

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cogman10 41 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

A lot.

Literally on Oct 7, Hamas tried to return civilian hostages, who the IDF killed. This is why Hamas changed policies to only give up hostages through 3rd parties. They reached out to israel to try and return hostages and were ignored. They reached out to the US to return hostages and were ignored. [1]

So for starters, the US could have pressured Israel to negotiate with Hamas to return the hostages.

As Israel started to show genocidal intent (for example, killing aide workers multiple times). The US could have at a minimum threaten to withhold aide. In fact, there are laws on the books that a country such as Israel committing war crimes is ineligible for aide.

Finally, the UN should have deployed peace keepers to gaza specifically to stop the genocide.

Actions could have been taken, but they weren't because our politicians are so bribed by Israeli lobby money as to turn a complete blind eye to it's misdeeds.

[1] https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/israel-politics/2026-09-...

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hamsteredf a minute ago | parent | next [-]

> Hamas tried to return civilian hostages

What a bizarre claim and outright lie. They kept them locked up and starving. They could’ve just dropped them off near the border with Israel or Egypt, or handed them over to the Red Cross (which wasn’t even allowed to visit and check on the hostages).

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bamboozled 19 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

So you feel like after October 7, there should've just been a talk about what happened and some form of negotiation ?

	▲	cogman10 18 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Quote exactly where I even implied that.

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thinkingtoilet 32 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

If you had to guess, what do you think they might do? I feel like questions like this are in bad faith. Think about it for a minute, and try to come up with some things that they might do.

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skywhopper an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

The post you are responding to lists several possible actions. Another good start would be to stop providing the weapons that have done this damage.