A lot has been, and more will be, said about freeing Gilad Shalit in exchange for one thousand palestinian prisoners.
Yes, freeing criminals is not such a smart thing to do. Still, they won't make much difference to us, there are plenty of would-be martyrs out there anyway. The pros and the cons are well known, I'm not willing to go into that quicksand.
There is however one argument that has thus far eluded both sides. Israel is about to get back a young man who never did anything wrong, a simple citizen of this country. The palestinians, on the other hand, are going to be flooded with almost one thousand criminals, and good luck building a stable society with that (Hamas could use some stability in light of recent and ongoing events in the region, and even though it won a few points with the Shalit deal, this is not quite what ordinary people need for their daily lives to run smoothly).
One simple citizen for us, one thousand criminals for them. We win.
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That's a good point, Pisa. Except for the soldiers and police who put the criminals in prison and now see their work was in vain.
one is greater than one thousand
1>1000
crazy, genius... S-holes could never tell the difference
Yeah, that sucks. One solution would be death sentence for terrorists. I'm not a fan of death sentences, but I don't see a better way to prevent future kidnappings and swaps.
Oh yes. This is not only about Gilad Shalit - every innocent person in the world is worth more than these one thousand.
Yes Gilad Shalit is more important than all one thousand of those criminals put together. As for punishing terrorists, that is always a problem. Imprisoning them may well result in this situation where they are swapped for hostages their comrades take. While executing terrorists creates matyrs whose bodies are dead but whose spirit inspires others to follow them. Killing terrorists outside the judiciary process, by death squads creates a situation where the authorities may well up being a greater menace than the terrorists they fight against.
What we should do is go straight for the head(s) - in this case Hamas leadership, wherever they are. Terrorize them for a change, like americans do now with al-Qaeda. Not likely though, unless we'll have Kahane Chai as government, but then, as you point out, they'll terrorize us too!
Pisa, what Israel and the US have done in trying to kill the head men of various terrorist groups like Al Qaida by drone strikes, commando raids like the one that got Bin Laden, etec. have been pretty effective in disrupting terrorist groups ability to operate. It is probably the best strategy in fighting against terrorist groups. Often terrorism will not end until there is a political solution that makes the terrorist groups cease operating and enter a political system. The Peace Agreement in Northern Ireland is a good example of this.
Note: If executing people who are terrorists/guerillas/freedom fighters and their supporters is a lasting solution to conflict, the British flag would still fly over all of Ireland and not just the six counties of Northern Ireland that have a Protestan majority.
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