Posted on 03/17/2009 12:15:11 PM PDT by Masti
'Talks hit snag because Hamas insisted all 450 prisoners be freed' Jerusalem Post Palestinian sources on Tuesday told the pan-Arab daily Al Hayat that negotiations for the release of kidnapped IDF soldier Gilad Schalit were discontinued due to Hamas's insistence on freeing all 450 prisoners on the list it presented to Israel.
According to the sources, which the paper termed "reliable," the figure behind Hamas's hardened position was the organization's military chief, Ahmed Jabri, who had led the Hamas delegation to Egypt.
Egyptian sources told the paper that the Israeli envoys to the talks had said that they had given Israel's best offer and that anything further required an executive decision on the part of the government.
Maybe you should read the article again?
It says Hamas offered the Israeli to Israel in exchange for 450 of their own, and Israel refused.
If your country (or family) isnt wiling to meet the ransom, and they have the means to make the ransom, and not meeting the ransom means you never see daylight again, I assure you that your country (or family) is not valuing your life all that much.
compared to what? sounds like a moral equivalency here... we'll release Shalit, so why can you just release 450 of our guys.
Israel values Shalit VERY much, but nevertheless should not release one single pali rat with blood on their hands. Period.
[and besides, I doubt that Shalit is even still alive. If he is, he is no longer the same person. Ideally, to get him back, some special force unit would go in killing every guard on their way to freeing Shalit]
What the hell has happened to you Israel?
In the late 60s you’d have gone and found your soldier and taken him.
Now you’ve turned in to a bunch of sissy boys.
Horse crap. Release 450 killers? How many more Jews and others will be murdered because of this crap?
Give hamas and the palestinians a time frame. If they fail to release your soldier then start taking out whole blocks in the West Bank, Gaza, Damascus, Tehran.
Grow your balls back Israel.
Couldn’t agree with you more. In my opinion, the biggest mistake that we and others have made in the “war on terror” is to refuse to take the necessary action to DESTROY THE ENEMY’S WILL TO FIGHT. How did we get from WWII, where we leveled Germany and vaporized two cities in Japan to get them to stop (successfully), to today where we have lawyers fretting over combatants’ “civil rights”, and where we agonize over launching even a small-scale operation until we can be sure that no civilians will be hurt?
Of course I don’t want innocents harmed, but the reality is that war is a dirty business and muslim fanatics will not suddenly have second thoughts about attacking us because we were careful not to harm their families. The Japanese were just as fanatical as the muslims, yet as Ann Coulter has pointed out (paraphrasing), “...after two well-placed nuclear bombs they became as gentle as little lambs.”
Israel has at times shown the guts necessary to do what is required to survive in their jungle of a neighborhood, such as bulldozing the homes of the families of suicide bombers, but they now appear to be softening. They must resist the temptation to weary of the fight and to instead harbor illusions that they can coexist with the muslims if only they are nice enough to them. The muslim terrorists are so consumed with an ideological blood lust that they can only be deterred by shocking them into submission, much as we did with Japan.
I hope SOMEONE overthere in the holyland listens to YA.
Very well said noiseman.
Have to stop playing nice.
I know many Muslims in fact my next door neighbor is an Iranian Muslim. A gentleman and Architect. And sane as i believe most Muslims are. But they fail to reel in their crazies and eventually many will suffer as a result of that failure.
Releasing a bunch of killers is the opposite of valuing Jewish life.
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Couldn’t the Israelis free all of these 450 Arab Muslims... I mean, how long would it take to implant multiple subcutaneous RF-id tags on all of them?
good point.
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