As the war progresses and it becomes clearer this was never about hostages, the talking points are predictably evolving.
If only they had been this honest when they hoodwinked the Israeli and American Jewish public that actually cared about the hostages.
Yeah - I mean, they were fairly clear from the start that they were going to destroy Gaza, I think, with the hostages as a benefit of that process but not a goal.
The thing that's shifted is that they're realizing they can't achieve that.
I think that Bibi and his gov panicked when the US, Qatar and Egypt were negotiating hostage release cease fires successfully.
They needed the material and rhetorical support for war crimes flowing from the US gov and Bibi understood the hostages needed to stay hostages or die to maintain that aid.
