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A ceasefire is a concession. And my point, which I think is clear, is there's a pretty wide gap between "They have to accept all hamas concessions" and "they have to negotiate".

It's pretty hard for you to argue against the fact that there are, in fact, reasonable concessions that aren't "suicidal".

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The context of this discussion is the idea that war could have been avoided if Israel had been willing to negotiate with Hamas over the hostages.

That is not the context of the discussion. The context is "what should world leaders have done differently".

And, I never said that the war was either avoidable or that Israel was wrong to use force after Oct 7.

What I am saying is that the war could have ended years ago and that Israel has committed genocide. I'm also saying that the pretext that it was about "getting the hostages home" was false.

And with that context, yes there are things world leaders should have done to stop Israel from committing genocide.

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