An Israeli military spokesperson confirmed that there were “hostage situations” in the southern city of Ofakim and the nearby kibbutz of Beeri.

Hamas said it had taken “dozens” of Israeli soldiers hostage and moved them to the Gaza Strip as footage emerged appearing to show gunmen in military fatigues leading a group of mostly barefoot women down a street in Israel.

The announcement and video verified by NBC News came hours after Hamas launched a deadly land, air and sea attack and fired a huge barrage of rockets at Israel.

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    Note there is no reference to any religious sites, simply to land the others have that they believe should be theirs.

    That’s such a stretch they should call you Mr Incredible.

    I don’t know why I bothered, I knew even as I was typing that you weren’t interested in learning. I knew you were going to pick as many individual parts of that definition as you could and try to force the square peg of Hamas into the round hole of fascism. Because the alternative is that maybe you were wrong about something, and oh no we can’t have that.

    We really need to do a better job funding our schools.

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      He thinks religion isn’t the end goal, but instead a tool used by fascists leaders whose end goal is actually that: fascism.

      You think the people calling the shots are actually devout and that fascism is a tool to achieve some religious goal.

      The former is a safer bet, since it isn’t predicated on needing to buy into the idea that the sort of people who orchestrate these acts are inherently principled and devout people who just have a very unfortunate interpretation of Islam.

      Call it fascist+ with a fancy name if you will, but it’s nothing to get so worked up over.

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        There is no fascism though. Just some similar elements.

        It’s definitely worth getting worked up over the zoomer tendency to call damn near everything fascism. Even the Barbie movie made fun of it. It’s watering the term down to meaninglesness. Which is very dangerous when there are real actual fascists on the rise in the world.

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      We really need to do a better job in teaching better manners.

      When you have no logical response to something a person says to you, do you consider it good form to resort to… well ad hominem sounds too classy for what you wrote… Shit tier elementary school “You dumb I’m smart” asshat behaviour?

      Learn to do better at the conversation stuff mate.