Why would Hamas accept a ceasefire and return all the hostages, if it doesn't mean an end to the war?

Israel has to have some of the most unrealistic unicorn-level diplomacy I have ever seen, holy shit.

Israel: 'I am currently at war with you'

Hamas: 'Yes, can you stop killing our people?'

Israel: 'No, I can only give you a temporary pause. But you have to give me all the political leverage you currently hold'

Hamas: 'So, I give you all the hostages, and you give me...more genocide?'

Israel: 'That's right'

Israel be like:

⚡️🇪🇬 Negotiations between Egypt, Israel, and the U.S fail, Egypt demands that Israel withdraws from the Rafah crossing and to hand it over to the Palestinian Authority so it can be reopened.

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Egypt now openly calling upon Hamas to no longer be in control of Gaza, and for the PA to take over the Rafah crossing.

Following the Israeli narrative step by step.

🇪🇬🤝🇮🇱 Egypt and Israel want the same thing (handing over Rafah to the PA). This should say enough.

The Palestinian Authority is a controled puppet entity, almost fully in service of Israel.

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— 🇪🇬/🇮🇱 Egyptian Foreign Minister: 'We tell everyone strongly and clearly, we reject the Israeli presence at the Rafah crossing'

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'If even one Israeli sets foot on the soil of Iran, it is obligatory for the Iranian people to destroy him' – Imam Khomeini

— 🇮🇷 Many candidates are still registering as candidates, here we see a female member of parliament

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— 🇮🇷 NEW: Mohammad Baqer Ghalibaf registers himself for the election

Ghalibaf is a moderately Conservative politician. He has been Speaker of Parliament since 2020. Before that, he was the longtime Mayor of Tehran from 2005 to 2017. From 2000 to 2005, he was Iran's Chief of Police, and he was Chief of the IRGC Air Force from 1997 to 2000.

Ghalibaf is a real heavyweight candidate, a career politician, very embedded within the echelons of Iran's power structure.

Alongside Saeed Jalili and Ali Larijani, Mohammad Baqer Ghalibaf is one of the most important candidates this election.

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🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Massive firestorms have started in Kiryat Shmona as a consequence of Hezbollah strikes

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Fires in northern Israel after Hezbollah kamikaze drones struck Kiryat Shmona.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Fires have blotted out the sun in Kiryat Shmona, with settler homes now in the crosshairs of the approaching firestorm.

— 🇮🇱 Kiryat Shmona

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An Iranian netizen writes about the Presidential candidate Ghalibaf:

'Don't discount this man. He could become the Putin of Iran.'

Another Iranian netizen replies:

'Not every bald head is a Putin'

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