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Israeli victims of terrorism versus PM Netanyahu

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NY Israel Conflict Examiner

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If Israeli PM Netanyahu releases 1,000 terrorists in exchange for one Israeli, parents of Israeli victims of Arab terrorism threaten to depose him.  

In this struggle, the personal interest of many bereaved parents, who evoke a national interest, are ranged against the parents of the one Israeli captive and the Prime Minister of a country that was unable to find other means to free him.

In the bereaved parents’ own words, “From the minute that the Bibi government abandons us and our children to the mercy of more than 1,000 murderers who will be set free; from the moment that the Bibi government betrays the memory of our murdered children; from the moment we see that all principles and all precedents have been shattered and that Bibi who vowed to fight terror betrays his principles and breaks his promises – we will work to topple the Bibi government.”  (http://www.israelnationalnews.com/  Arutz-7, 11/22).

Aside from the injustice, which contravenes Jewish law, experience shows that the proposed exchange would lead to more Israeli victims than the release of one would spare.  The exchange would give terrorism a triumph over Israeli security personnel who risked their lives to capture the 1,000, only to see the 1,000 freed.


 

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, NY Israel Conflict Examiner

Richard Shulman has written 17,000 articles for Internet sites, over 12 years. He was a reporter for "Our Town," Manhattan's largest weekly. He wrote nine articles in the "Jewish Political Chronicle" and had had about 250 Letters to the Editor published.Richard condenses news reports into their...

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