Big day.
Let’s hope the 20 living hostages will indeed be freed. And not turned into a disgusting circus of death.
And what a price! Nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners are to be “exchanged”, including 250 serving life-sentences.
There are even reports of Hamas trying to negotiate the release Marwan Barghouti. He’s a famous maniac serving 5 life sentences for murder. He masterminded suicide bombings and other attacks on Israelis during the 2nd intifada.
He’s referred to as “the Palestinian Mandela”. I think it’s telling that a majority of Palestinians genuinely seem to admire psychopaths like Sinwar and Barghouti - who seek misery and death, rather than building a semblance of a nation state and a future.
It feels like Israel is playing the losing hand.
At the end of WWII, the Nazi party did not agree to a “ceasefire” with conditions. Nor did the Japanese. It was an unconditional surrender. It’s galling to me that Hamas - with all their global supporters, including the British government - think that they are in a position to make these sorts of demands.
The reality is that Hamas are not “going away”. Their fanatical mission is to destroy Israel and the Jews. That won’t change. Our only hope is that Hamas break the terms (by not disarming/surrendering) so Israel has to finish the job.
This is the price Israel pays for being a civilised society.
Complete inhumane barbarism, and the streets of Western democracies awash with people supporting them.
Poor Mandela :(
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ReplyDeleteIsrael faces an impossible moral burden, yet continues to uphold the value of human life even when surrounded by those who glorify its destruction
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