Ofir Braslavski watched as his emaciated son, Rom, writhed in anguish on a dirty mattress somewhere inside the Gaza Strip, in video footage released by Palestinian militants in recent days showing the agony of Israeli hostages.

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    The other way around. “See? Your starvation campaign is affecting them too” is the point, and it’s working. From the article:

    The videos led tens of thousands of Israelis to take to the streets on Saturday night and demand a ceasefire deal, in one of the largest turnouts for the weekly protests in recent months.

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      “See, we are as bad as them !” Is not a marketing strategy I would recommend neither

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          Netanyahu is loosing support and look like the bad guy, so not competing with him on being the worst human being would be a good start

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            It’s “losing”, FYI. Loosing would be, like, untying a guard dog to go after someone.

            Just not releasing anything would have been an option. Islamic Jihad might not have a good read on the Israeli discourse, though, and “show that we literally have no food to give the hostages” would have been smart when dealing with a government that at least cares about their own people.