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Barry Rubin has written about prisoner exchange deal for getting Gilad Schalit returned, noting that:
That said, this was a rather predictably divisive action within Israel itself, as families of terror victims were angry at the news. If the US doesn't negotiate with terrorists, why should Israel?
- Re-arresting A Terrorist
Something to be glad about: a terrorist freed in the Gilad Shalit deal has been recollared: The IDF detained on Thursday one of the prisoners who was released in exchange for Gilad Shalit, the "ministry of prisoners’ affairs" in the Palestinian Authority...
- Hamas Praises Israel’s Strength? Check Your Wallet, But What’s That Overheard In Qom?
Wash Times:JERUSALEM — A senior Hamas official praised the “strength” Israelshowed in a prisoner exchange that swapped more than 1,000 Palestinian convicts for one captured Israeli soldier.“To do what Israel did shows the value Israeli society...
- Gilad Shalit Is Alive
After 3 years of the Hamas shrouding things in secrecy and not revealing any clear signs, a video tape they've presented shows that P.O.W Gilad Shalit is alive: After over three years in which IDF St.-Sgt. Gilad Schalit has been held in Hamas captivity...
- Anti-dhimmitude
h/t Total Rome Gives Gilad Shalit Honorary Citizenship ROME – Rome has given honorary citizenship to an Israeli soldier kidnapped by militants linked to Gaza's militant Islamic Hamas group three years ago. Sgt. Gilad Schalit's father, Noam Schalit...
- Egypt 'enraged' At Hamas, Syria, Iran
On Friday morning, I reported that Hamas is considering firing their Egyptian 'mediators' in the 'negotiations' to trade kidnapped IDF soldier Gilad Shalit for 'hundreds' (if not more) of 'Palestinian' terrorists, and hiring...
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Barry Rubin clears up a few questions about Schalit deal
Barry Rubin has written about prisoner exchange deal for getting Gilad Schalit returned, noting that:
There are some substantial misunderstandings on the nature of the Gilad Shalit exchange deal. I should stress that the list of those Palestinian prisoners being given in exchange for him has not yet been released. But note the following:Yet this is why any deal made might not go through, if Hamas wants the bloodiest barbarians kept in Israeli prisons. Hamas themselves have been making unconfirmed claims of who's to be set free, and only showing their true colors in the process.
–The number 1000 is impressive but most will be chosen by Israel, meaning they will be prisoners with the lightest sentences and crimes — in other words, people who would have been released anyway during the next year or two.
–Israel rejected Hamas’s demand to release those being called “arch-terrorists” who were major organizers of attacks or responsible for a larger loss of life.
That said, this was a rather predictably divisive action within Israel itself, as families of terror victims were angry at the news. If the US doesn't negotiate with terrorists, why should Israel?
- Re-arresting A Terrorist
Something to be glad about: a terrorist freed in the Gilad Shalit deal has been recollared: The IDF detained on Thursday one of the prisoners who was released in exchange for Gilad Shalit, the "ministry of prisoners’ affairs" in the Palestinian Authority...
- Hamas Praises Israel’s Strength? Check Your Wallet, But What’s That Overheard In Qom?
Wash Times:JERUSALEM — A senior Hamas official praised the “strength” Israelshowed in a prisoner exchange that swapped more than 1,000 Palestinian convicts for one captured Israeli soldier.“To do what Israel did shows the value Israeli society...
- Gilad Shalit Is Alive
After 3 years of the Hamas shrouding things in secrecy and not revealing any clear signs, a video tape they've presented shows that P.O.W Gilad Shalit is alive: After over three years in which IDF St.-Sgt. Gilad Schalit has been held in Hamas captivity...
- Anti-dhimmitude
h/t Total Rome Gives Gilad Shalit Honorary Citizenship ROME – Rome has given honorary citizenship to an Israeli soldier kidnapped by militants linked to Gaza's militant Islamic Hamas group three years ago. Sgt. Gilad Schalit's father, Noam Schalit...
- Egypt 'enraged' At Hamas, Syria, Iran
On Friday morning, I reported that Hamas is considering firing their Egyptian 'mediators' in the 'negotiations' to trade kidnapped IDF soldier Gilad Shalit for 'hundreds' (if not more) of 'Palestinian' terrorists, and hiring...