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| Israel approves Hezbollah prisoner swap |
| 2008-06-30 |
| Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert won his cabinetÂ’s approval on Sunday for a prisoner swap with Hezbollah under which two soldiers held by the Lebanese guerrilla group, and believed to be dead, would be recovered. The seizure of army reservists Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev in a July 2006 border ambush triggered a month-long war in Lebanon, with Olmert ruling out talks on their return. He then relented, negotiating through a U.N.-appointed German mediator. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 Olmert is essentially complying with the global media double-standard, not realizing that he can no more win them over than he can the Hezbollah savages. Sadly I have quoted this that it might be seen again in italics. |
| Posted by: .5MT 2008-06-30 15:03 |
| #2 Remember, the loathesome ghouls at Hezbollah have the unstinting support of a large part of the worldÂ’s academic and media elite. Imagine the outcry if Israelis or Americans savagely desecrated dead bodies, then taunted the survivors with the mutilated remains. It is really worse than that: Imagine the outcry if this were done with official sanction and the gleeful support of the leadership and the collaborationist media, as it is with Hezbollah and Hamas. Yet the global elite react only with excuses for the barbarians and condemnation for their victims. This tells us more about the modern, media-based left than it does about their clients like Hamas and Hezbollah. They are a demonic force and the true enemy in the present global war. Olmert is essentially complying with the global media double-standard, not realizing that he can no more win them over than he can the Hezbollah savages. We can only hope that Israel will survive until Netanyahu or someone like him can take charge and initiate corrective action. Covert action along the lines of Operation Gideon is the only appropriate response, revisionist media cowards like Steven Spielberg be damned. The media cult is the enemy, do not try to appease them. |
| Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2008-06-30 13:04 |
| #1 This deal seems stupid to the point of ludicrous. The Israelis are giving up a convicted terrorist, Samir Kuntar (whose murder victims included a 4-year-old child whose head he bashed in with a rifle butt) as just one of the many prisoners to be released and the Israelis are getting back corpses (Olmert has announced that they have information that the captured soldiers were killed). It signals terrorists that they are free to murder prisoners and they will still have similar trading value to live hostages. It validates the original Hizb'Shaitan raid which was mostly for the purpose of having bargaining chips for Kuntar. It ups the amount that Hamas will expect for their presumably alive prisoner. This deal is so ridiculous that it makes it seem that there must be an important hidden aspect. But what could possibly be enough to compensate for all the disadvantages? |
| Posted by: Odysseus 2008-06-30 12:06 |