Remember Entebbe?

Jerusalem Post ^ | 7-9-03 | Michael Freund

[SJackson]

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[Trueblackman]

One of the greatest military operations in history, I have studied it many times.

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[Rebelbase]

I was 16 when that happened. I must have read the newspaper story a 1/2 dozen times the morning it was announced. The Amin double and the Mercedes were brilliant ideas.

[LarryM]

Now they capitulate to a craven George Bush whose idea of fighting terrorism is sending more Jews to their deaths.

[xJones]

Last week Israel released Suleiman Abu Mutlak, deputy head of the Palestinian Preventive Security Service in Gaza, arrested two months ago for his involvement in the November 20, 2000 Kfar Darom bus bombing that killed two Israelis and injured dozens of others.

Among Abu Mutlak's victims were three children from the Cohen family of Kfar Darom, each of whom lost a limb in the attack. Upon hearing the news of Abu Mutlak's release, Noga and Ofir Cohen responded incredulously, "Our children don't have legs, and they release him?" (Yediot Aharonot, July 4, 2003)

It is terrible that Israel has been forced to release such monsters. And let us not forget Jonathan Netanyahu, who was killed in that successful rescue.

[xJones]

The successful rescue at Entebbe, July 4, 1976.

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

Now they capitulate to a craven George Bush whose idea of fighting terrorism is sending more Jews to their deaths.

Clinton had the same plan but with little risk for himself.

Bush put his political capital at risk in Iraq as well as in the so-called peace process!

The Palestinians risk everything if they take Israel's accomodation as weakness or defeat.
If they ignore the carrot, they are destined to get the stick.

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

Clinton released Puerto Rican terrorists to enhance his wife's election prospects in the hispanic community.

Bush only seeks peace and security.

[LarryM]

This is nice propaganda but does not reflect the truth. Clinton never offered a Palestinian State before the end of the conflict. Bush is offering one in advance. Where is the stick in all this? Bush is offering concession after concession to the terrorists and forcing even more from Israel. How is that considered fighting a "war on terror?"

[xJones]

Bush only seeks peace and security.

Yes, but it is Israel that will pay the butcher's bill. Would you seriously bet that the majority of those released Palestinians terrorists won't go back to their terrorism?

[Valin]

FYI
On this day in history: 1976 Uganda asks UN to condemn Israeli hostage rescue raid on Entebbe

[Valin]

The Palestinians risk everything if they take Israel's accomodation as weakness or defeat.
If they ignore the carrot, they are destined to get the stick.


Unfortunately they are seeing Israels willingness to accomoadate as weakness. and so they'll get the stick.
After 30+ years there isn't anyone in the PA leadership that is willing to say Israel has the right to exist, anyone who in the past was willing to say that has been killed.

[xJones]

Unfortunately they are seeing Israels willingness to accomoadate as weakness. and so they'll get the stick.

Wild asses, who see and yet learn nothing. If Yasser and his cronies really loved the mishmash called the Palestinian people, great things could be done. The money, the help is all there, but the overwhelming objective has always been to throw the Jews out, and the Palestinian people are just useful idiots.

[knighthawk]

I can still hear Putin telling the world he will not tolerate terrorism and that Russia will fight it after the suicide bombings.

But at the same time they are urging Israel to talk with terrorists who do the same things as the terrorists in Russia do.

I guess those are the same two different sets of rules again, one set for the world, one set for Israel.

[Valin]

I don't have a problem with talking. The problem is there is nobody in the PA (or any other orginization) that serious about making peace.
For many of these people peace would be a disaster, then they'd have to actually govern a country. And that's no where near as exicting as being a revolutionary.

[yonif]

Unlike today, however, the Israel of back then was not in the habit of yielding to terrorist blackmail. No international summits were convened at Aqaba, no road maps were drawn up and no negotiations with the terrorists were countenanced.

This is a great article.

[Binyamin]

In less than three decades Israel has gone from being a country that frees hostages to one that frees terrorists.
In less than three decades Israel has gone from being a country that frees hostages to one that frees terrorists.
In less than three decades Israel has gone from being a country that frees hostages to one that frees terrorists.
In less than three decades Israel has gone from being a country that frees hostages to one that frees terrorists.
In less than three decades Israel has gone from being a country that frees hostages to one that frees terrorists.