Hezbolla-Israel Exchange Deal

[abc_123]

Israel, Hezbollah Begin Dramatic Prisoner Exchange
Wednesday, July 16, 2008

ROSH HANIKRA, Israel — Lebanon's Hezbollah guerrillas turned over to Israel two coffins believed to contain the bodies of Israeli soldiers captured two years ago, setting in motion a dramatic prisoner exchange between the bitter enemies Wednesday...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,383441,00.html


Reading the exerpt of this story makes me sick. Hezbollah are animals, yet there are some in this country that think we can talk with them? I feel sorry for Israel who has to try and live amidst the sea of barbarism that surrounds them all while being pressured to "make peace".

[Chris Cram]

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."

[The Reaper]

Dead POW hostage bodies for live terrorists?

Am I missing something?

This is a good deal how?

TR

[danjam]

Closure for the families that did not know if their children/husband were dead or not.

It is not new that Israel swaps hundreds of arabs for a one of ours.

They always rejoice because theirs is a culture of death. (IMO)

There will be other wars with them.

[Chris Cram]

Danjam:

Do you recall the story of Rabbi Maharam from Ruttenberg, who forbad the payment of his ransom. His intent was to insure that kidnapping would not continue as a way of extorting money from the Jewish community.

Clearly the value of this lesson has been lost over time.

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[danjam]

There is a unwritten law that the army will do everything to bring a fallen/injured soldier back. The government are the ones that break this law every time.

I don't know about Rabbis etc.. I know that when I was in Lebanon, or wherever, I would want my mates, my army to come get me, and fXck public opinion. When soldiers know that if you get captured, your life is not worth the effort, I feel motivation will not be as high.

Our punishment for not going after immediately with full force is what we see today. IMO

[Big Daddy]

Originally Posted by The Reaper

Dead POW hostage bodies for live terrorists?

Am I missing something?

This is a good deal how?

TR

Not only that, the bodies were so badly mutilated that it is almost impossible for them to be identified. Savages, every single one of them.