Serious questions that must be addressed before exchanges of prisoners are considered.
The prisoner exchanges harms Israeli deterrence, creates an appalling precedent that encourages further kidnappings, increases the possibility that our captured soldiers will be mistreated or even murdered in custody, and rewards imprisoned terrorists by releasing them early to claim new victims. While the return of the soldiers, regardless of their condition, fulfills an important central value of Israeli society ? that the State of Israel will do its utmost to recover soldiers behind enemy lines ? nonetheless, it poses serious questions that must be addressed before such exchanges are considered in the future. More at : http://israelagainstterror.blogspot.com/2008/07/bargaining-for-living-and-dead.html |
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