There are many people opposed to a prisoner exchange deal that would involve releasing hundreds of heinous terrorists for the return of Gilad Shalit, including some bereaved parents and families, who lost their loved ones to Arab terror.
They are using strong terms to express their opposition, calling any such deal “an ethical and moral failure”. They feel all other avenues must be exhausted before such a costly deal is entertained, and some feel it is simply a non-starter, and the state does not have the right to release hundred of terrorists to bring home a lone soldier.
There is also much criticism being vented regarding the release of 20 terrorists earlier this month to obtain the video of Gilad Shalit, decrying the move, releasing females who were b’chasdei Hashem apprehended on the way to perpetrating a murderous attack, now free to try again in the future.
Parents who lost children, including Yosef Mendelevitch from Haifa whose 13-year-old son was murdered in an attack in 2003 stated there is no justification for the release of these terrorists, who will then be free to act again in the future.
Some of the families insist that the release of terrorists encourages additional terror and this is contrary to what the state’s leaders should be doing and therefore unacceptable.
(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)
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Before I state my opinion I just want to say that B”H I didn’t go through any of these nisyonos that these families went through. But I do want to say that as hard as it is for the families who lost a loved one to an attack Lo Alaynu, they know that their child/spouse/relative/friend will never come back home until Moshiach. However, Gilad Shalit is ALIVE and why should he not come home? May we only hear besuros tovos.
Gut Shabbos
It is a fact that released prisoners have returned to do more acts of terror. Knowing this, what right do we have to release these dangerous prisoners?