Posted on 10/14/2011 4:14:21 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
Hamas leaders are telling Arabic media that Israel agreed to release terrorists in exchange for Gilad Shalit without a commitment from the terrorist group to stop kidnapping soldiers. Israel tried to get a commitment, but agreed to go ahead without one, according to sources quoted by the pan-Arabic paper Al-Hayat.
Hamas also claimed that they managed to extract a promise from Israel not to harm the more than 1,000 terrorists to be released in exchange for Shalit in any way.
The report contradicts what Shin Bet head Yoram Cohen said about the planned prisoner release. Cohen told journalists that the exchange deal does not include any Israeli commitment regarding released terrorists’ future.
Hamas has portrayed the Shalit prisoner exchange as a victory, and has openly vowed to kidnap more Israelis in order to free more prisoners. Among those who will be released are terrorists who have committed murder, although several senior terrorists will remain in prison.
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When is this exchange to be made.
IMO Israel has made a bad deal, as far as I know they have not yet even seen a live Shalit, and yet they are turning loose 1,000 prisoners.
Hamas vows to take more prisoners, Israel should vow to go to wherever they keep their prisoners and stop playing if they do.Take any hostage back if they have to scour the whole of Hamas occupied territory to do it.
Hostages, smostages. Mass troops in Ashkelon, swing into Ghaza from the sea to the West and the desert to the East, let both assaults join hands in the South, cutting off their supplies, and then scour all of Ghaza for anyone with anything to do with Hamas, and give them a one way ticket to someplace hot and sticky. Later, look for hostages.
That’s an easy question to solve. Simply stop taking terrorist as prisoners. Instead, just shoot them dead before they have a chance to surrender
If Israel will not kill islamists, then - like us - they´re done too.
I like the way you think, but unfortunately we are thought of as radicals.
Palestinians are such a crappy gang of thieves and ne-er do wells that even the rest of the Middle East want nothing to do with them.
A refugeee camp that survives for 50 years isn’t a refugee camp it is housing for a worthless gang that wouldn’t work in a pie shop.
Wouldn’t surprise me if all they get in return is Shalat’s corpse.
Lawrence, no! Damascus, Lawrence.
No prisoners.
Sounds good.
It would surprise me if they get anything else. This is insanity. This is a death wish.
Shalit was a soldier. His job was to go into harm’s way to protect his country. Sometimes soldiers don’t come back. The entire country shouldn’t get inundated once again with cut throats just so one soldier can come back. That endangers more soldiers, and more civilians, too.
Once upon a time, so was John Adams. I’m not him, nor am I Menahem Begin, nor MK Ghandhi. But being thought of as a radical puts us in good company.
I also think its madness when the Army risks live soldiers to recover the bodies of dead ones. Yet...a lot of soliders stongly support this policy. Go figure.
Rescue, sure. But ransoms are different. There is a clear rule. Do not pay excessive ransoms, because that merely encourages more kidnappings. This ransom is excessive.
It isn’t risking the lives of soldiers going in to save one of their own; it is a surefire sacrifice of untold numbers of soldiers and civilians. No corpse is worth that. No live person is worth that.
Thanks Eleutheria5.
Israel should have let the United Nations or International Red Cross obtain Shalit’s release. /s
An elegant solution would be to place remote control suicide belts with anti removal fail safes on the terrorists that would go off whenever they act up...
An elegant solution would be to place remote control suicide belts with anti removal fail safes on the terrorists that would go off whenever they act up...
Or at the next Nuremberg rally they have in Ghaza.
Amen, achi.
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