re: Israel–Hamas War Discussion Thread: News Links On First Page

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none of the prisoners the Israelis are releasing are murderers or were involved in acts of terrorism.

This simply isn't true.[/quote]

Of course it's true.

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Alright. You keep it up, buttercup.

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The Jerusalem Post

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"Israel will, in exchange, release 150 Palestinian women and minors under 18 jailed for involvement or suspected involvement in security-related offenses".


None of these Hamas prisoners are involved or suspected of being involved in murder or terrorist related activities. The Israeli Government would certainly know.

These are the sort of people the Israeli Government is swapping for 40 Israeli children and their mothers.

It's a pretty solid deal.

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the more you "talk", the more you prove that your ego exceeds your intelligence...

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But that's not true. Just read up on this exchange for yourself. You'll see.

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Only thing I will say is that you have a strong opinion and don't really have an open mind. It's probably true for most people who have absolutely no concept of what is/was/has/will going on there.

Cliche to say "your privilege" keeps you from understanding, but it is obvious you have a myopic simple view of how things work there.

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Probably not.

There probably aren't 50 live Israeli hostages left to release, hence the obfuscation

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Yes, when it comes to the lives of 40 children and their mothers. I have different values

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Are all your decisions based off of emotion?

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Are all your decisions based off of emotion?

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No and what you've quoted isn't the entire post. And also you're asking the question as if you don't understand what the Israelis are swapping out here. Maybe you don't.

They're trading 150 women and teenage boys who have not engaged in any murderous or terrorist acts. People the Israelis would certainly not kill, for 40 children and their mothers that are being held captive, people Hamas would certainly kill.

The Israelis aren't doing this based off emotion. They're doing it because it's a good deal. They're swapping people that don't matter to them for people who do.

I began this discussion by saying folks in this thread wouldn't like this deal because they would see it as capitulation and that's exactly what's happened.

Acts of civility and morality aren't always emotional in nature and it's these acts that separate the barbaric from the civilized.

You want to know how to handle North Korea? Ask South Korea. You want to know how to handle Palestinians? Ask Israelis. They know what they're doing.

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There probably aren't 50 live Israeli hostages left to release, hence the obfuscation

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Well Hamas leaders don't exactly know where some of them are and they've tacitly admitted recently that there are factions in Gaza that are acting Independently of leadership.

In other words. Some Hamas terrorists on the ground are off the reservation and hiding hostages from their own leadership.

This swap may be the only opportunity to get any of them back alive.

And if you believe Israel is resolute in its goal to destroy Hamas (as so many in this thread are), then these prisoners they exchange will never have the opportunity to join Hamas and commit acts of terror to begin with.

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Security-related offenses = Terrorist related activities

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No it doesn't.

Most of those who are being swapped are repeat offender rock throwers and rioters or people who routinely rebel against security protocols. In other words, chronic shite stirrers. None have been involved in overt terrorism or murder. Or at least that's what the Israeli Government is saying, they would know.

Now if you want to suggest the Israeli Government is lying about who they're releasing, be my guest but we can only go off what's reported.