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2008-07-16 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

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Posted by tipper 2008-07-16 12:18|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Rubes

Posted by Zenobia Flesing4775 2008-07-16 13:04|| 2008-07-16 13:04|| Front Page Top

#2 They should have flown over the celebration like they were bringing the prisoners, then flung them out of the chopper at a thousand feet up. Right on that cackling bunch of baboons.

Posted by Zenobia Flesing4775 2008-07-16 13:16|| 2008-07-16 13:16|| Front Page Top

#3 Too stupid to live. Unfortunately I've come to expect this self destructive behavior from any nation who becomes used to the American security blanket, not least of all American herself.

Posted by ed 2008-07-16 13:25|| 2008-07-16 13:25|| Front Page Top

#4 Bad Precedent.

Olmert's leadership will be one for the record books.

What should we expect when Hezbollah attacks again?

Posted by DK70 the Scantily Clad7177 2008-07-16 13:30|| 2008-07-16 13:30|| Front Page Top

#5 "Woe betide the people who celebrate the release of a beastly man who bludgeoned the skull of a 4-year-old toddler," Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said in a statement before a private meeting with the families of the soldiers.

Well, you're right.
You're also the guy who let him out...

Posted by tu3031 2008-07-16 13:45|| 2008-07-16 13:45|| Front Page Top

#6 Israel should swap like-for-like. If the Palestinians send back dead bodies, the Israelis should send them dead bodies. If the people that the Paleos want back aren't dead yet, that can be fixed relatively easily.

Posted by Rambler in California">Rambler in California 2008-07-16 14:45|| 2008-07-16 14:45|| Front Page Top

#7 I can not, simply not, understand how Olmert could have allowed this. Or, for that matter, how any of the soldiers/police guarding Kuntar could have refrained from shooting him dead before seeing him go free.

Israel is doomed. It doesn't have the courage to survive. This craven cowering by Olmert, supposedly backed by a majority of the country, is absolute proof of the preceding statement. Of course, Olmert's continuance as PM despite his criminality and gutlessness has also demonstrated that proof for some years now.

I am saddened beyond words to think that I'll live to see the completion of the Holocaust.

Posted by Jomosing Bluetooth8431 2008-07-16 15:38|| 2008-07-16 15:38|| Front Page Top

#8 Is this what is called "negotiations without preconditions"?

Posted by swksvolFF 2008-07-16 16:16|| 2008-07-16 16:16|| Front Page Top

#9 I can't think of the name "Olmert" any more without thinking of the word "Judenrat."

Posted by Abdominal Snowman 2008-07-16 16:21|| 2008-07-16 16:21|| Front Page Top

#10 If there's one country that doesn't need a Neville Chamberlain, it's Israel.

Posted by ryuge 2008-07-16 17:34|| 2008-07-16 17:34|| Front Page Top

#11 Insanity.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-07-16 19:37|| 2008-07-16 19:37|| Front Page Top

#12 From now on, no prisoners.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-07-16 19:40|| 2008-07-16 19:40|| Front Page Top

#13 This would only make sense if a secret clause included location and schematics of Iranian nuclear facilities.

Posted by Odysseus 2008-07-16 22:29|| 2008-07-16 22:29|| Front Page Top

#14 I know it's not right but I hope they drop a MOAB right in the middle of the hizbullah welcome back celebration in Lebanon.

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2008-07-16 23:00|| 2008-07-16 23:00|| Front Page Top

#15 something tells me if my son were to die, God forbid, he wouldn't want to be negotiated for terrorists to be traded back to only have them be able to kill again.
Precedent set, and Israeli's seen as weak.
Makes me sick.

Posted by Jan 2008-07-16 23:34|| 2008-07-16 23:34|| Front Page Top

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