Comments on: Israel Willing to Discuss Prisoner Swap?

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 09:54:19 +0000

Israel has repeatedly swapped prisioners with extremists. They will again. They should've a month ago.

Israel has also repeatedly lied about civilian massacres.

I do not support Hizbollah, but I do think, as many Israeli's do, that Zionism is a greater threat to the nation of Israel, than Hizbollah or Iran.

By: John Poleshek

John Poleshek — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 04:42:08 +0000

The Israeli,s have no choice but to swap prisoners for their captured soldiers but the swap should only be one for one. Also this is not a perfect world soldiers are human,s and prone to making mistakes so to expect some soldiers not to get captured is ilogical.

In reguards to the death and destruction caused
by Israel three facts repute this statment.1 hizbelloh terrorist do not evacuate civilans from
war zones even though they started the war by firing rockets(which was a seperate issue from kidnapping soldiers)2.hizbelloh terrorist do not wear uniforms(even though they seem to have plenty of funds avaiable for rockets),3hizbelloh
fortifications are not built as military structures rather they are disguised as farmshouses, single family homes, churches, hospitals, schools, etc,etc,ect.

By: Old War Dogs

Old War Dogs — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 00:31:28 +0000

Israel Willing to Discuss Prisoner Swap?...

... James, I couldn't agree more. A prisoner swap at this point or any point in the future is just a guarantee of more kidnappings. I hope the Israelis are smarter than that....

By: Dean Esmay

Dean Esmay — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 15:00:12 +0000

Well they have done prisoner exchanges before. Only this time they had one after being severely punished. So I dunno...

By: Awakened Warrior

Awakened Warrior — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 14:08:35 +0000

If they swap--it's possibly the beginning of the end.

By: Dave Schuler

Dave Schuler — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 13:46:52 +0000

I think I disagree with you here, James.

First, the Hamas and Hezbollah cases are very different. The abduction of an Israeli soldier by Hamas was carefully planned, expensive, and time consuming. You're not going to get a lot more of that with or without a prisoner exchange.

The Hezbollah attack was an attack of opportunity. A small group of Israeli soldiers got isolated from their fellows; Hezbollah seized the opportunity and attacked. The preventive measure for that is don't give them the opportunity.

In my view Israel's response to the Hezbollah attack should have been a) a sharp, brief, harsh punitive strike against Hezbollah facilities in southern Lebanon; b) reform of procedures within the IDF to increase vigilance; c) a quiet prisoner exchange.

Instead they bombed Beirut.

It's not perverse irony that they're negotiating now. It's stupid and pathetic.

Olmert has behaved like a politician rather than a leader throughout. He ratcheted up the use of force as it boosted his approval rating and is ratcheting down when his approval rating started to fall.

By: DC Loser

DC Loser — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 13:09:17 +0000

Not too much else the Israelis have done here makes sense either, militarily wise anyway. So what else is new? BTW, Israel and Hezbollah (as well as the Hamas, and other groups) had prisoner exchanges in the past. And Israel has done its share of "grabbing" people for later exchanges in the past.

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Unpartisan.com Political News and Blog Aggregator — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 12:12:41 +0000

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