Yep, this action by Israel just serves to encourage their terrorist scum enemies. Very disheartening.
You can view it as appeasement, if those are my soldiers being held by the enemy, I will to bring them home.
If I allowed them to be captured, then that is my mistake.
But deserting them to the enemy forever is destroying their bond to the nation.
Why are US forensics teams still searching the jungles of Vietnam for our MIA/KIA?