Comments on: A Bit of Perspective on Prisoner Trades?

By: Shabbat Surfing: Fashion, Turn to the Left « The Blog at 16th and Q

Shabbat Surfing: Fashion, Turn to the Left « The Blog at 16th and Q — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:56:15 +0000

[...] Posted on July 18, 2008 by CPO In a depressing week dominated by posts about the prisoner swap deal with Hezbollah, where can one find solace? [...]

By: grandmuffti

grandmuffti — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:35:09 +0000

Next time Muffti does that, his colleagues and students will ask him what it has to do with truth conditional semantics!

But if Muffti had to guess, good ol Friedrich would have ultimately said Hizbullah 1, Israel 0 on this one. Olmert is no ubermensch.

By: Haim Watzman

Haim Watzman — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:27:01 +0000

We’re all sad and frustrated, but in the end this is a price we pay for having a democracy in which soldiers’ parents and buddies can lobby the government to make trades like these. And who would want to live in a country that silences them?

By: Meir Einayim

Meir Einayim — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:27:06 +0000

masorti.org/Re...

This url gives liturgical expression in both Hebrew and in English to yesterday’s event.

By: Tom Morrissey

Tom Morrissey — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:42:13 +0000

Next time Muffti teaches a class on Nietzsche’s theory of the revaluation of values, he should show this video.

By: xisnotx

xisnotx — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:07:41 +0000

TM, I read that Rabin quote w/out looking at its context. So, I take back my comment.

By: ck

ck — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:10:12 +0000

World cup of terrorism?

By: themiddle

themiddle — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:38:45 +0000

Of course, Xisnotx, when somebody lays an UNPROVOKED ambush on your territory, kills and maims your soldiers and kidnaps those it can, you immediately bow your head and negotiate a price. Who would ever even think of, you know, fighting back.

By: Ephraim

Ephraim — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 04:28:31 +0000

It’s pretty obvious the evil Zionazis starved and tortured Kuntar while he was in prison. He’s so emaciated and horribly scarred, a pitiful shell of a man.

By: Tom Morrissey

Tom Morrissey — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 02:26:12 +0000

That video…. It’s like they’ve won the World Cup of terrorism.

By: xisnotx

xisnotx — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 01:47:38 +0000

Rabin’s got it backwards.

By: BrazilianJew

BrazilianJew — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 01:14:27 +0000

youtube.com/wa...

This video should be watched by all Jews.

By: Tom Morrissey

Tom Morrissey — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:34:33 +0000

Here’s hoping Israel can find someone, somewhere, to take a serious whack at, and soon.

By: grandmuffti

grandmuffti — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:32:34 +0000

Ah Muffti sees. that’s the difference.

By: Ephraim

Ephraim — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:29:33 +0000

Totally.

When a bully knows he can slap you around, that’s usually exactly what he does.

By: Tom Morrissey

Tom Morrissey — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:08:42 +0000

Wasn’t it Israeli policy not to give up captives with ‘blood on their hands’? Isn’t this is the threshold Israel’s clearly crossed in freeing Kuntar?

Per the jpost:

“Hamas’s representative in Lebanon, Osama Hamdan, said that the release of Kuntar, ‘who killed Israelis,’ was a significant precedent that would be used in the negotiations over the release of Schalit.”

Then, too, this trade occurs in the context of a string of military and political reversals for Israel, in which the state seems powerless, e.g. the attacks on Sderot. When even Abbas gratuitously piles on, praising Kuntar while making nice with Olmert in Paris, it’s an ominous sign that Israel has lost the respect of its enemies. And that may be the biggest cost of all in this debacle.