Posted on 10/11/2011 8:24:02 PM PDT by Nachum
Israel has agreed to swap 1,000 Palestinian prisoners for a lone soldier held by Gaza’s Islamist rulers.
The deal to release Gilad Shalit resolves one of the most emotive issues in the Middle East.
Shalit, then 19, was captured by militants who tunnelled their way out of Gaza and forced him back over the border in 2006.
The pact is virtually certain to improve the climate for restarting peace talks that have been stalled for over a year.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said yesterday that the deal was 'finally summarised and both sides signed'.
In the Gaza Strip, a Hamas spokesman said: 'We are in the process of completing the technical arrangements to complete the deal within days.'
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yes!
my wife’s been praying for him since 2006.
Horrible. How many innocents will die as a result of these freed criminals?
And now, the IDF is printing up those deck of cards with those terrorist pictures on them. Couldn’t shoot them in prison but now that they’re out ... unintended consequences, huh?
I would ask the 1000 prisoners if they believed in arafat so much that would take an injection of his own blood....?
Finally
One Israeli is worth 1,000 Palestinians ? That seems like a reasonable ratio.
I think they should keep that formula whenever an Israeli is killed by a Palestinian — kill 1,000 Palestinians in reprisals. It may be the only logic Muzzies can understand and respect.
I’m sure the 1000 were carefully chosen and their every move will be followed until ‘something happens’ or they ‘lead’ someone somewhere.
Amazing! I thought sure he was not still with us. Hallelujah! Sad about the 1,000 terrorists freed but now at least they are marked men.
Amazing! I thought sure he was not still with us. Hallelujah! Sad about the 1,000 terrorists freed but now at least they are marked men.
Fat chance. These genocidal murderers are not in any danger.
This is why Israel will triumph and Arabs will always fail.
Israel spends 5 years and the efforts of its top leaders to reclaim one captured comrade.
Arabs on the other hand train their citizens to blow themselves to bits with suicide bombs, or treat them like cannon fodder to satisfy the dreams of Arab dictators.
As the IDF says “You don’t know us veddy well, doo youse” (in my best Bugs Bunny voice). They found those Munich guys who gunned down the Israeli Olympic team. Mossad can find anybody any place any time. I would not write life insurance on those guys. That whole area is about the size of Santa Barbara county in California. They may run, but they can’t hide.
It is not the first time Israel has traded huge numbers of criminals for one Israeli.
Probably not the last.
This shows the Israelis have more humanity.
It doesn’t mean they’ll win, however. History is filled with the savages beating the civilized.
How many spies do you think the IDF will have planted in those 1000?
Nachum, have they offered any proof that Shalit is still alive?
Yes, it is horrible. A 1000 to 1 prisoner swap is beyond the wildest dreams of the Palestinian terrorists.
Israel win not win any conflicts by fulfilling the wildest dreams of its enemies.
filled?
its practically a universal truth!!
The only time the more civilized win is if they have the luck of profoundly superior technology and a profoundly pragmatic governing elite that is willing to allow its use.
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