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Gil'ad Shalit – Moment of Decision
This week, the Olmert administration will
probably take its last breathe, as corporal
Gil'ad Shalit will mark a thousand days in
Palestinian captivity in the Gaza strip.
Professor Eyal Zeiser refutes each and every
claim and thought on the alleged Arab
perception of us as weak and submissive
when releasing terrorists for our captive.
Instead, he raises serious internal questions
from which our society and leadership have
been running for two and a half years. It's
been nearly two and a half years since Gil'ad was captured by Hamas.
For nearly a 1,000 days, his family and the entire state of Israel along
with it, are thrown around between the hope for his release and feeling
helpless and despaired from the enormous difficulties and obstacles that
keep reappearing whenever it seems like we are close to reaching a deal
that would bring Gil'ads release from captivity.
In a few days, Ehud Olmert's time as prime minister will come to an end.
It seems that in the final days of their term, the government headed by
him is making enormous efforts to close a deal with Hamas which will
bring the Shalit affair to a successful end. Israel is even being more
flexible than it has ever been regarding the names of the murderous
terrorists who appear on Hamas' list of Palestinian prisoners they want
released.
The claims of those opposing captive deals on the other side's defeat –
are absurd
One claim, which is being repeatedly made in this argument, is the claim
that Israel releasing Palestinian prisoners will be perceived by the other
side as its submission and defeat and will encourage Hamas, as it has
previously encouraged Hizbullah, to keep kidnapping Israelis to be used
as bargaining chips. Some even claim that an Israeli submission to the
enemy's demands will bring an escalation in violence employed by
terrorist organizations against Israel.
But these claims don't necessarily have anything to rely on. It seems then,
that the argument about the expected deal for Gil'ad Shalit's release
reflects different approaches to questions like what are the expected
ramifications of such a deal on the Israeli society from within; on its
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