Posted on 10/15/2011 2:38:26 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
The writer, a veteran right wing newsman, analyzes the security aspects of the Shalit deal. They are better than the previous ones, he says, leaving moral and political considerations aside for now.
Haggai Huberman The author is a noted military correspondent, a veteran reporter for Arutz Sheva and regular columnist in the Hebrew weekly BeSheva. ► More from this writer
If I were a cabinet minister, I would vote for the deal to ransom Shalit, not because it is a good one, which it most definitely is not, but because for once, just this once, this is a deal that we can live with – barely.
The choice in this case is not between a good and a bad deal. The cabinet ministers had to choose between a terribly bad deal and one that is the least terrible. And this deal is the least terrible of them all.
I wish to examine the deal from one aspect only – the security aspect, not the moral or the political aspect – as those deserve separate consideration.
Hamas gave in on two significant points – it is important to remember that Hamas has agreed to leave the most hardcore terrorists in jail, such as the commander in chief of terror in Judea and Samaria, Marwan Barghouti, the Hamas commander there, Ibrahim Hamid and his operations officer Abdallah Barghouti.
Abbas al-Sayed who carried out the 2002 Netanya Park Hotel massacre on Passover, Ahmed Sa'adat who was responsible for the murder of MK Rehavam Ze’evi Hy”d [may G-d avenge his blood, an expression used for victims of anti-Semitism ed.], the Hamas chief officer in Gaza Hassan Salameh and others, will remain imprisoned.
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The Palestinians didn’t get all they wanted, but they got enough to make snatching the next Israeli solider worth trying. One swap every five years seems to be the pace.
My deal would be that Israel takes and annexes 1 square km every day until Shalit and ALL other hostages are released unharmed. Make kidnapping harmful to the animals instead of rewarding them.
I think the Israelis expect hostilities in the very near future and have calculated it’s better to have these guys out on the loose where they can be dealt with when the shooting starts instead of safe in prison.
I think the Israelis expect hostilities in the very near future and have calculated it’s better to have these guys out on the loose where they can be dealt with when the shooting starts instead of safe in prison.
"Kahane was right"
If Hamas does not release Shalit, and I kind of expect they won’t, that might be what happens.
Reward criminal acts, and you get more of them.
Prayers for Gilad Shalit and his family.
I suspect he’s dead.
They could grab him in a lightning-fast surprise raid, now that they know where he is (in Egypt). Then there’s an end to it. But wait, Egypt might not like us anymore./s
They could grab him in a lightning-fast surprise raid, now that they know where he is (in Egypt). Then there’s an end to it. But wait, Egypt might not like us anymore./s
I nearly agree.
When the shooting starts, there won’t be any onus on Israel for shooting the released terrorists, because they’ll be fair game.
When the Arabs start the next war, Israel needs to completely empty Gaza (which is already Judenrein), and, if there’s so much as one missile launch from the so-called West Bank, completely remove its entire Arab population.
And instead of moving said deportees to, say, Sinai, deport them into Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan.
If Lebanon joins the war against Israel, the Hizzie-run areas need to be depopulated the old-fashioned way. That’ll mean plenty of room for the deported Arabs.
Do you have any idea what that would all do to the construction industry here? Demand would exceed the supply of experienced workers by about 10:1.
Enough with the expulsion talk. Kahane was wrong. Win the war, and the local Arab population will be cowed. Lose it, and we all die. That’s the reality. Expulsions are a pipe dream built on a premature assumption.
I like your deal better
I hope not, but I suspect you are correct
Say that to the Serbs in Krajina, Christians in Afghanistan and jews in Iraq and Morocco...
Expulsions happen. All that is needed is will and power.
Leave the arabs in place and it will come back to haunt the Israelis in the future. Win the war and the local muslims will go back to biding their time and doing their best to outbreed the jews. And for every decade that passes Israel will be in greater peril.
So what if the muslims are angry? What will they do? Start a campaign of terror and be determined to wipe out Israel once they have the strength?
Here’s a better deal: declare open season on Hamas. Kill every Hamas member you can find, no prisoners. Keep at it until every Israeli prisoner is released.
You’re wrong.
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