Comments on: The living hostages are back. But what’s next? https://thenewneo.com/2025/10/13/the-living-hostages-are-back-but-whats-next/ A blog about political change, among other things Tue, 14 Oct 2025 19:45:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Tom Grey https://thenewneo.com/2025/10/13/the-living-hostages-are-back-but-whats-next/#comment-2826026 Tue, 14 Oct 2025 19:45:06 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=144653#comment-2826026 What’s next is what we’re starting to see, Hamas killing non-Hamas rivals, so as to remain able to dominate the Gazans under their rule.

Crappy semi-dictatorship, with the most ruthless among the rivals with weapons likely to murder their way to power.

The big question is how will Israel administer the occupied parts of Gaza? This remains the key issue Bibi hasn’t found an answer to, and Trump providing support doesn’t answer the Q.

]]> By: JohnTyler https://thenewneo.com/2025/10/13/the-living-hostages-are-back-but-whats-next/#comment-2825993 Tue, 14 Oct 2025 13:50:49 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=144653#comment-2825993 Surprise, surprise; NYC mayoral candidate, and its next mayor, Mamdani, has condemned the release of the Israeli hostages and the overall peace agreement.

This should persuade more NYC voters to support Mamdani.

]]> By: Sennacherib https://thenewneo.com/2025/10/13/the-living-hostages-are-back-but-whats-next/#comment-2825987 Tue, 14 Oct 2025 12:18:21 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=144653#comment-2825987 What’s next? We won’t have long to wait for the answer.

]]> By: R2L https://thenewneo.com/2025/10/13/the-living-hostages-are-back-but-whats-next/#comment-2825975 Tue, 14 Oct 2025 03:18:22 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=144653#comment-2825975 huxley on October 13, 2025 at 11:04 pm:
“I suspect Trump put a lot of cherries on top for Arab leaders.”
I certainly hope and want to believe that Trump is fully aware (as much as anyone can be) of the potential for things going awry. But if his pressures and arm twisting does lead to a significant reduction in any funding for Hamas (or other terrorist groups) from either these same leaders in side deals, or the leaders to a better job of controlling contributions to Hamas from their fellow wealthy citizens, then maybe they will “starve” the terrorists of resources.
I remain more on the pessimistic side than the positive one (in part because terrorists don’t really need all that much to cause real trouble).

]]> By: R2L https://thenewneo.com/2025/10/13/the-living-hostages-are-back-but-whats-next/#comment-2825973 Tue, 14 Oct 2025 03:08:55 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=144653#comment-2825973 sdferr on October 13, 2025 at 6:48 pm:
“Just Arabs being executed by Hamas in the street”
I am surprised that the “X” terms and conditions would allow such an execution to be web cast.
Maybe if it leads to some remaining groups taking out Hamas?? We shall see – maybe, even when we should not.

Kate on October 13, 2025 at 7:20 pm:
“Arab Muslim society is very tribal. With the IDF withdrawn from some areas, the clan wars resume.”
Yes, it is a reminder of how the European Dark Age or Middle Age Church managed to implement rules against cousin marriage that reduced the influence of the Germanic tribal and clan social structure. While it was probably done mostly to gain access to the wealth of religiously oriented widows (willing her husband’s property to the church instead of to her son or brother or nephew or brother in law or uncle), it seems to have been instrumental in widening the circles of trust across tribes and society in general, leading to kingdoms and nations as we now understand them.

Even though I have read (and I believe you have commented) that in many Muslim societies today, their is a significant decline in belief in Islam, but the non-believers still keep a low profile. But if they don’t moderate their laws about marriage I suspect their clan/tribal nature will continue to hold them back, and continue to cause problems for the West.

]]> By: huxley https://thenewneo.com/2025/10/13/the-living-hostages-are-back-but-whats-next/#comment-2825971 Tue, 14 Oct 2025 03:04:49 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=144653#comment-2825971 I get the impression that Trump negotiated well to the doubts many Arab leaders have about the Hamas campaign against Israel.

Sure, they don’t like Jews and wouldn’t mind the end of Israel, but if it could have been done, by now it would have been done.

Peter Zeihan (remember him?) says that the younger Arab leaders don’t really care about the Palestinian cause and would rather move on.

I suspect Trump put a lot of cherries on top for Arab leaders.

]]> By: Chuck https://thenewneo.com/2025/10/13/the-living-hostages-are-back-but-whats-next/#comment-2825967 Tue, 14 Oct 2025 02:32:32 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=144653#comment-2825967 I am curious to see what the Palestinian Authority does. They aren’t friends of Hamas.

]]> By: Kate https://thenewneo.com/2025/10/13/the-living-hostages-are-back-but-whats-next/#comment-2825955 Mon, 13 Oct 2025 23:20:09 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=144653#comment-2825955 Arab Muslim society is very tribal. With the IDF withdrawn from some areas, the clan wars resume.

]]> By: sdferr https://thenewneo.com/2025/10/13/the-living-hostages-are-back-but-whats-next/#comment-2825945 Mon, 13 Oct 2025 22:48:25 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=144653#comment-2825945 Mike Doran: “Nothing to see here. Move along.”
https://x.com/Doranimated/status/1977855710315634991

Just Arabs being executed by Hamas in the street

]]> By: sdferr https://thenewneo.com/2025/10/13/the-living-hostages-are-back-but-whats-next/#comment-2825943 Mon, 13 Oct 2025 22:33:38 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=144653#comment-2825943 Think of it sorta like a self-licking ice cream cone and we’re most of the way there. Save for the very real bullets and bombs part.

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