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bamboozled • yesterday at 11:00 PM • 4 replies • view on HN

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


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sdenton4 • yesterday at 11:20 PM

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

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thinkingtoilet • yesterday at 11:35 PM

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.

cogman10 • yesterday at 11:26 PM

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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skywhopper • yesterday at 11:16 PM

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.