Tropical Soulvangelical (aka "the Heir") had -momentarily- wondered whether a cease fire isn't a bad idea, because pragmatically speaking it'll allow both the transport of relief supplies and negotiators to try to get more hostages freed. But he's now thinking it probably -is- a bad idea judging from the situation at Cooper Union and unanswered questions about the protests in Brooklyn over last weekend. Fireworks set and beer bottles thrown at cops, students feeling unsafe enough to feel like they need to lock themselves inside a school library, unconfirmed reports of people tearing hostage posters off street walls and protestors doing national death chants, and a car covered in swastikas driving on or near a major highway in or near Westchester County pulled over and caught transporting deadly weapons for some unknown purpose, and TSV is wondering, all this for a call for a cease fire??? Putting his previous pragmatic musings aside, TSV is becoming more convinced that a if cease fire is brokered between Netanyahu and Hamas, Hamas will only take privilege and break that cease fire when they think no-one's looking. As in our previous base shares, TSV sees clear CRINK involvement in Hamas's activities, and as such he sees them as encouraging Hamas to act in bad faith. Even if we do get -all- the hostages freed, and -all- relief supplies and repairs put in place and services restored, TSV sees Israel as then morally losing the war. TSV still isn't a Netanyahu person, but he's starting to understand why Netanyahu feels the way he does most of the time. Barring Netanyahu's inexplicable call for the U.N. secretary to resign, TSV sees the current war as yet another proxy front for CRINK like the war in Ukraine is, and the ongoing cultural obsession with tech and continuing personal corruption as there was in the 2010s when TSV lost his job at the software company as a result, despite the fact that the pandemic should have taught people to get back onto the righteous path. This is why TSV lends general support to the survival of Israel in this conflict, and any further Ed Snowden protests that take place until that conflict ends will just cause TSV to dig his heels in even more accordingly. The Ed Snowdens won't change his mind. They'll just make him feel more firmly like he does now.