Posted on 04/21/2024 10:03:06 AM PDT by Freeleesy
What else do you remember from that day? Where were you? What did you talk about?
I was with them, I walked around with them – they were on a high. Ketziot is an open-air facility. That particular wing is surrounded by a wall and there's netting above it but you see the sky. The prisoners who had arrived there to be freed hadn't seen the sky for 20 years. In the prisons they had come from, they'd spend the entire day in their cells, maybe going out for an hour or two. Suddenly they see the horizon. They're happy. Euphoric. "We beat you," they said.
What did you tell them?
I felt a twinge in my heart, because I knew the price was steep. And I said, "We are defeating you, not the opposite. Because we are more ethical than you. We are ready to pay this price for a single soldier. You would not have been willing to pay that price if the situation were reversed. We are willing to do it, because we have values and morality – but don't interpret that as weakness." By the way, I truly believe that.
What happened as they left? Did they sing? Applaud?
They didn't dare. They knew that as along as they were still being held by the Shin Bet, they couldn't do that. Only when they had been driven a distance away, I saw them opening windows and making the victory sign. Look, during all those years they would tell me, "We will be freed," and I would say, "There's no way," in order to suppress their motivation. And yet now they were finally being freed, as they had believed. They think differently from us. When Gilad Shalit was abducted, Israel entered the Gaza Strip, eliminated a few hundred terrorists and destroyed buildings; of course, another few thousand civilians paid the price.
I said to Sinwar, "Tell me, is it worth it for 10,000 innocent people to die, in order to free 100 prisoners?" The reply was, "Even 100,000 is worth it." Their notion of time is different, and the price in blood they are ready to pay in order to achieve their goal is different. Because each person who dies is a shahid [martyr]. It's warfare in the name of God [ALLLAH].
Read more at: rsn...
The investigator of Hamas’ Yahya Sinwar recalls 2010...
Haaretz again
I especially chose the rsn link...b/c Haaretz is a terrible site most of the time.
Have we reached the point where a Carthaginian solution is the best option?
The twentieth century saw state-sponsored murder and industrialized murder like never before in history. I wonder if the twenty-first will eventually prove even worse in that regard.
I said during the covid and election scam of 2020 that the world will be very different in 2030 then it was in 2020.
The 2020’s have potential to be the most world altering decade since the 1940’s
Also, the world only sustains 9+ billion people because of a robust supply chain and energy production — take that away and you can deduct a few billion people as they simply cant survive.
The Gazans aren’t innocent. They celebrated Oct. 7, and participated in it.
If you include medical dishonesty/corruption, psychological deviancy now normalized (an action required, climate change pathology to limit food production/human procreation.
Yes
As Bill Maher said - it’s killing babies and I’m OK with that
Message to Gaza: If you dish it out, be prepared to take it.
It is Islam’s m.o. since the 7th century. Nothing has changed.
I’m for all of them dying...
“Also, the world only sustains 9+ billion people because of a robust supply chain and energy production — take that away and you can deduct a few billion people as they simply cant survive.”
Our elitist “betters” are more ambitious. They want only a half billion to remain.
I agree with your points. I think that - as in the 1940s - there are elite plans and multi-national institutions in place, who don’t tell us what they are up to.
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