According to Ha’aretz, Israel is now seriously considering the release of an untold number of “Palestinian” security prisoners in return for the release of IDF Corporal Gilad Shalit.
This after Prime Minister Ehud Olmert had originally vowed no negotiation with the Hamas terrorists who carried out the abduction or with their overlords in the Palestinian Authority, and no “prisoner exchange.”
On the surface it doesn’t look so unreasonable. The report says Israel is only considering the release of those Hamas officials it rounded up over the past several days and a handful of other prisoners without “blood on their hands.”
In other words, no one who has managed to kill a Jew yet will be set free.
But mark my words, before this is over it will turn into a discussion on the release of any and every type of “Palestinian” prisoner, because to everyone but Israel they are just freedom fighters, prisoners of war if you will. And it is legitimate to trade prisoners of war for other prisoners of war.
This is of course ignoring the fact that a worrying number of prisoners without “blood on their hands” that Israel released as part of other agreements over the past few years turned around and immediately participated in deadly terrorist attacks.
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1 Eric Walker // Jul 3, 2006 at 5:56 am
It’s difficult to believe anything that any number of Israeli prime ministers have said over the past decade or so. One “palestinian” atrocity after another is met with claims of red lines never to be crossed. Again and again these lines are crossed and more israelis die. Israel is in full fledged retreat and has become accustomed to pretenses to the contrary. It breaks my heart.
2 Arthur Vincent // Jul 3, 2006 at 6:59 am
1.Do not trust one single word of Mubarak, Hamas, Abbas and PA.
Israel already should be at the end of this nightmare in total
occupation of Gaza in a single NON STOP OPERATION.
No one single Arab/Hamas murderer should be release. All this negotiation is a waisted time ! When the Israeli are going to learn the
lesson ?
This “negotiation” remain me the murder of the athletes of the Israeli 1972 Olympic Team in Munich by Black September Terrorist.
http://www.palestinefacts.org/pf_1967to1991_munich.php
Gilad Shalit, is either murdered or they will murder him
regardless what Olmert/Peretz are going to do !
Any other consideration is a pure dillusion.
Olmert and IDF have to act a.s.a.p. without waisting time on the
what the world opinion is going to say.
Arthur Vincent
Munchen, Germany
P.S.
Yes, you may like it or not, but TRANSFER of ALL HAMAS with Abu Abbas and all his Fatah and associates murderers is the only
answer.
3 Dwain // Jul 3, 2006 at 5:57 pm
It is past time to rid the Homeland of any and all terrorist!
4 John // Jul 4, 2006 at 4:24 am
Oh that good old Slippery Slope where will it lead.
Look the world has a unique way of viewing Israel. Since 1967 all, but a few, have viewed Israel’s presence in Gaza and the WB as occupation. Of course, it isn’t true, but that still is the way most media people and many governments view it. Then you have the legal folks who recognized that these areas are at least disputed lands and that Israel does have a real claim. But they are drowned out or called (naughty) conservatives by the liberal media. Finally you have the Bible believers (Jews and Christians) that say this land was promised to the Jewish People.
For many years the government of Israel has held to the legal claim that the land is at the very least disputed if not part of the original Jewish National Homeland. However, in 1993 the brilliant people that brought Oslo abandoned that claim and sold out to the view that the land was indeed occupied. Since then internationalism has demanded a full pullout. This is spite of the fact that UN resolution 242 limited the withdrawal to safe and secure borders, and then only as a result of a full peace (which is not really being offered).
For years people have been inundated with the concept that these lands are occupied. Since occupation is wrong it goes without saying that people see no linkage between terror and withdrawal. This is how some have come to say that one persons terrorist is another persons freedom fighter. It follows that once the occupier leaves peace will automatically reign.
However this is a false concept since these lands are occupied, and withdrawal will not bring peace. These lands are not legally occupied and the Arab desire is not limited to Gaza and the WB. The terror will continue because the Arabs view all of Israel, even behind the green line, as occupied. The withdrawal simply feeds Arab aggression and makes the existential risks to Israel even greater.
To full appreciate the Muslim mentality one should review early American history related to the Barbary Pirates of the late 1700’s. Shortly after the colonies attained their independence they were attacked by “pirates” living in Libia. Thomas Jefferson asked one of the Arab ambassadors why American ships were being attacked since we were not at war. The ambassador said, you are infitals. This was finally stopped when the US Marines (working with other countries) laid siege on Libia. This is where we get the words, “from the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli.”
The major question for friends of Israel is how to reverse the damage. Limiting further damage or maintaining the current status is no longer enough. My suggestion is that each person makes it his business to speak to 10 other (undecided) people and they should then go out to speak to ten more. Only through a grass roots movement can we hope to make a difference. Of course, this will require a (web)site with helpful advise and links to other sites. It will need a catchy name that people would logically go too even if they didn’t know of such a site (like: israel.com). I think all forms of religion indoctrination should be left out. Only, those things relevant to Jewish ownership of the Holyland should be included. There is a good deal of Biblical as well as historical facts that link the Jewish People to this area. For example, it should be pointed out that Jews have lived there continuously for over 3 thousand years.
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