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Tuesday, July 1, 2014
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Tuesday, July 1, 2014
Horror at teens’ deaths won’t prevent future exchanges
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleHaviv Rettig Gur offers a cogent analysis of Israel’s history of lopsided prisoner exchanges in light of the country’s unique ethical underpinnings:
Three boys are dead. Eyal Yifrach, Gil-ad Shaar and Naftali Fraenkel were abducted by a clumsy Hamas cell in the West Bank with instructions — generic urging, really — to replicate the “success” of the Gilad Shalit kidnapping that saw over 1,000 Palestinian prisoners, many of them brutal terrorists with blood on their hands, released in exchange for the safe return of one Israeli soldier.
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