Later Tuesday, the Lebanese government announced that Wednesday will be a national holiday to celebrate the "liberation of prisoners from the jails of the Israeli enemy and the return of the remains of martyrs."
"Your are like brothers to me. You rose swifter than eagles and yet you were cut down, HaShem's annointed ones. May He comfort you all the days of your life and may you dwell in His High Place forever. As for your enemies, may our G-d make a swift end of them and may their memory be blotted out from under Heaven and for the evil that was done to you - my beloved brothers, dearest Ehud and Eldad - may their name be wiped out from remembrance among men and may G-d avenge your blood speedily - but you, the sons of Israel, will live on the hearts of all those who love you forever."
In fact, the PA has already said this emboldens them to kidnap Israeli soldiers, and even if they are killed, they will get what they want from Israel. This deal proves it. Olmert is a traitor to Israel. He is digging Israel’s grave. And he is not finished, just wait, you will see shortly.
I just saw the video of this on the BBC. Hezbollah has declard it a victory, and I have to agree with them.
Exchanging live prisoners for dead. I don’t think that is a good trade.
Israel needs to start releasing every terrorist it holds now—also in coffins.
The fact is Hezbollah could not get away with its depraved atrocities if not for the unstinting support of a large segment of the global media. In some cases, this is indirect, through the usual devices of propaganda and advertising such as selective emphasis, invited inference, and false equivalence.
Others, especially in the UK, are quite open in their love for the demonic cult, praising Hezbollah to the rafters and revelling in its license to commit one barbarous atrocity after another.
This must end.
The Israeli government, and Israel’s friends throughout the world, must understand that there is no point in trying to appease the establishment media. The media are not with the enemy, they ARE the enemy.
I propose the following:
All pro-Hezbollah media to be expelled from Israel at once, the determination of pro-Hezbollah status to be made by a special commission of experts in rhetoric, forensics, and communications theory.
Any assets of pro-Hezbollah media or their principals within Israeli reach to be confiscated and the proceeds distributed to the families of Hezbollah’s victims.
Open Hezbollah propagandists such as Fisk, Pilger and Raven to be arrested if possible and tried under the Julius Streicher precedent.
All Hezbollah and Palestinian prisoners lawfully convicted of murder to be executed immediately, and their remains repatriated in the same condition as the those of Israelis murdered by Hezbollah.
If the Israelis don’t return Kumar in a coffin, you can take it to the bank that they have lost the will to live.
This is sick.
Pray for Israel.
If the U.S. used Olmert’s logic, people like Gacy and Dahmer would walk scott-free in exchange for revealing the locations of people they murdered.
Absolutely disgusting. One of the most shameful episodes in Israel’s history. If those were my son’s remains I would rather they be thrown into the sea then traded for the life of a single terrorist.
Well, Israel’s enemies certainly have no incentive to treat captured Israeli soldiers humanely, or even to keep them alive. When you can get many live prisoners for two murdered soldiers...
I guess Israel did not even require that they be told whether the soldiers were dead or alive before the swap was made?
The Israelies should kill the 5 prisoners and hand them over in coffins.
Mark
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Israel is in a complete state of dishonor.
I’m so baffled by this... I’m speechless. Why did the Israeli cabinet think that trading murders for dead bodies was a good idea? My heart is just so broken that the good guys are SO freaking bent on appeasement. It doesn’t get much worse than this trade. The terrorist get everything they want and Israel gets nothing....
Did they feel like they had no choice or something? Did they think this would make them look good in the international community? What?
Who are the vile bastards who conducted a campaign to make this trade? The families? If so they should be ashamed of themselves. It is just despicable. If this were my son’s remains I would sooner see them tossed into the sea then traded for a vicious murderer and terrorist. SHAME! Israel has sinned a great sin.
I do not have any understanding of Jewishness or Jewish law, but why the f would Israel do something so stupid? I do not mean to sound insensitive, but Mrs. Regev and Mrs. Goldwaser look really selfish.