Israeli Myopia

Schmuel katz ^ | David Isaac

[ventanax5]

Staff Sgt. Gilad Shalit is set to be released on Tuesday. In exchange, Israel will release 1,027 terrorists, among them murderers sentenced to consecutive life sentences. Needless to say, ‘life sentence’ does not carry the same force in Israel as it does in other places.

Those Israelis who have greeted this news with euphoria argue that Shalit has suffered, his family has suffered, and so everything must be done to release him. This myopic view ignores the suffering of those families who seek justice for the death of loved ones murdered by the terrorists about to be released.

Israelis in favor of the deal may plausibly argue that Shalit is still alive and his life takes precedence over those now dead. Nothing can be done to save them, but something can be done to save Shalit. This, too, is myopic, because it ignores those Israelis to be done to death by the unrepentant murderers back on the street.

[sinanju]

Most informative article I’ve yet read on this grim farce.

Like everyone else, the thing to do next time a soldier is kidnapped is to simply start shooting imprisoned terrorists—beginning with the murders—one by one until the hostages are returned or the prisons are empty.

[1st Division guy]

not to worry. i’m sure they will return to apologize for their misdeeds

[seton89]

A modified AVID chip would be useful for tracking the released thugs back to the nest.

[arthurus]

ignores the suffering of those families who seek justice for the death of loved ones murdered

and the suffering and death of the ones who will be maimed and killed by these released murderers when they go back to jihad?

and the soldiers and citizens who will be captured or kidnapped for ransom as a result of the extremely profitable Shalit operation?

[ventanax5]

“To the Arabs, one Jew is worth 1027 Arabs.

To the Jews, one loud homecoming is worth 100 quiet funerals.”

Ben Chorin