

Releasing the hostages won’t stop anything. The IDF was headshotting children before October 7th.
According to this, Hamas rejected proposition by Israel on march 1. Which then triggered Israel.
Seventeen days later? I don’t think you can call that a “trigger”
Fact is, Israel has been violating the ceasefire since the beginning according to the reports I’ve been reading.
Hamas shouldn’t even have the hostages, but stealing a few hundred people is nothing compared to the way Israel bullies Gaza. Now they’ve got the hostages, they’ve lost any moral high ground anyway, so they’re going to use them to the best tactical, strategic and diplomatic advantage they can. It’s the smart thing to do. It’s not the right thing to do, but I think everyone lost all hope of either side doing something right a long time ago.
I think it’s 50-50, because the Chinese l sound is pronounced with the tongue in the position somewhere between the Latin r and l sounds. So it’s just as likely to be heard as a “wrong” L or a “wrong” R.
The fun part is that the tropes stick to our own way of pronouncing the letter (r becomes l or vice versa) instead of attempting to pronounce the Chinese sound correctly…