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anything I said implies keeping the hostages?

Once again, you are asking me about something you think I said, while completely ignoring what I said immediately after quoting what I said.

No, keeping the hostages is not acceptable under any circumstances, total victory or not. It does not figure into the calculus of total victory. This is what "return of hostages is woefully insufficient for "total victory" means.

Obviously, this doesn't mean that if they kept the hostages but everything else happened would be a total victory for Israel. It is literally the exact opposite. It means that the condition you are proposing and falsely ascribing to what I said or implied is WOEFULLY INSUFFICIENT to achieve total victory. It means that if this condition is not met, there can be no further talk of total victory.

This is quite self-evident. Understanding this is not such an insurmountable intellectual undertaking. Why then does the question that presumes Hamas keeping the hostages even enter your mind? It never entered mine, no matter what you think I think.

I am tired of explaining every fallacious argument you concoct. Give it a rest already.