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 :(
ReplyDeleteLet's hope goes through smoothly.
ReplyDeleteIsrael faces an impossible moral burden, yet continues to uphold the value of human life even when surrounded by those who glorify its destruction
ReplyDeleteIt's a tense morning here, everything is happening now, seven hostages have already been released, the rest in a few more beats during the day, and then the dead hostages, those who were able to be found, not all of them have been found. Everything is broadcast live on TV, and tens of thousands of people are in the Kidnapped Square in Tel Aviv.
ReplyDeleteIt's good to know that you, although a minority in blogland, understand and support us, we really need it.
It's only because of supporting pressure from the West that Hamas is in the position to make such demands. Left to its own devices, Israel probably would have pursued the attack until Hamas was completely destroyed or surrendered unconditionally. The US and Europe pressured them to back off before the job was fully done. This is what has happened in war after war since Israel was established. Israel has never been allowed to completely win. The conflict has never been allowed to truly end, so it just continues.
ReplyDeleteIf, during World War II, the Allies had been subjected to similar pressure from some other stronger power, and had been forced to negotiate a peace with Nazi Germany and imperialist Japan before they were completely defeated, those regimes would have been able to survive and rebuild and go on causing trouble, and would probably still exist in some form today.
And while one must recognize the freeing of the hostages as a positive, the fact that Israel released so many terrorists in return has just shown the jihadists, once again, that hostage-taking is the way to get what they want. It guarantees more hostage-taking in the future.
Hamas is a terrorist organisation and is definitely NOT supported by the British government.
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