Excerpts from article:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/126865
Arab Leaders Celebrate Victory: 'Swap Teaches us to Kidnap More'
By Ze’ev Ben-Yechiel (Published: 07/16/08, 3:25 PM)
…Arab leaders and terrorist groups around the Middle East are expressing their joy over what
to them is a resounding victory over Israel and a lesson that kidnapping IDF soldiers works.
…Hamas terrorist leader Ismail Haniyeh encouraged more kidnappings, and another
Gaza terrorist openly expressed what many in Israel already fear: Kidnapping IDF soldiers has
become the most effective way to release terrorists with blood on their hands.
The Hamas leader said that the deal with Hizbullah, which included the return of the dead bodies
of kidnapped soldiers Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser, gave him hope. "This is a precedent,"
Inspired by the results of the kidnappings and the subsequent prisoner release, Haniyeh decided
Wednesday to postpone the talks on the release of Shalit.
Haniyeh is not the only major terrorist leader to express his delight at the proof that
kidnapping Israelis is an effective weapon strategic weapon against Israel. Abu Mujahed, a spokesman
for the umbrella terror group Popular Resistance Committees, told a Ynet reporter on Wednesday that
the completion of the deal "even after the images of the Israeli soldiers' coffins, proves that
kidnapping soldiers will continue to be the most efficient, favored and ideal way to release
Palestinian prisoners, particularly those defined by the enemy as having blood on their hands."…
According to Abu Mujehad, the Lebanese and PA terror infrastructure "will continue to work to kidnap
soldiers in order to release prisoners "and in order to retrieve our rights, after it has been proved
beyond any doubt that no diplomatic negotiations can release prisoners or return rights."