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A Jew in the Video is Worth 20 Palestinians in the Bush
By Benjamin L. Hartman / October 3, 2009
In an event already being declared a breakthrough in Arab political identity and self-esteem by media outlets throughout the Middle East, Islamic resistance group Hamas secured the return of 20 Palestinian female prisoners held in Israeli jails, in exchange for a video of a single, emaciated Jew.
Hamas-leader-in-exile Khaled Meshal said during a speech-in-exile in Damascus that the exchange represented the greatest-ever affirmation of the sanctity that the Arab world places upon its prisoners, and the righteousness of their sacrifice.
"Imagine if we send them a fingernail, we could free every prisoner in Israel", Meshal told the crowd at Martyrs’ square in the Martyrs’ Heights neighborhood of Damascus, before mumbling something about "Zionist vampires" hijacking his Twitter feed.
In later statements made to an AP writer in Damascus, Meshal said he had received "unconfirmed proof" that Israeli agents had implanted a GPS tracking device in the left breast of each prisoner, in order to better facilitate future punitive air strikes on their homes and sleeping children.
The Gaza newspaper "Palestine", which secured a choice product placement in the video, reported that all 20 prisoners were currently undergoing reprogramming in UNRWA-run schools in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, in order to expunge the trade school certifications and high school equivalency exams they completed while in the prisons of the Zionist entity.
On Friday, Palestinian families throughout the West Bank rejoiced in the glory of their loved ones’ return home, with many saying it was their happiest day since the last of their regular visits to them in Israeli prison.
Also Friday, relatives of Israel Defense Forces soldier Gilad Shalit celebrated their first view of their son since he was kidnapped in a cross-border raid by Hamas in 2006, saying that the three years without any contact or confirmation of his well-being and Hamas’ refusal to allow Red Cross visits made viewing the 2:42 video all the sweeter.
Benjamin L. Hartman is an editor at Haaretz.com, the English Web site of Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz
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Every time Israel capitulates to the Arabs the way Chamberlain did to Hitler, it only pushes peace further away. When you bow before a wolf, he doesn’t think, "Oh, I owe him one now"; he rather thinks, "Good, he’s subordinated himself to me and made me the alpha; I am now in a stonger dominant position."
The Talmud says we should not pay too much to redeem Jewish captives, because this encourages terrorists to kidnap more Jews; if we refuse to pay exorbitant prices to redeem captives, then there will be no reason to take Jews captive. But Israel still hasn’t figured out that which was written in its own books 1500 years ago.
I’d like to see Gilad Shalit freed, and hope it happens soon.  He looks like such a nice, intelligent young man.  I’m a little disappointed that Mr. Hartman didn’t put Mr. Meshal’s "fingernail" comment in its proper context, however.  At Baruch Goldstein’s funeral in 1994, after he died in the process of murdering over 40 Palestinians, Rabbi Yaacov Perin stated "One million Arabs are not worth a Jewish fingernail."  Certainly we modern humans can take exception to that repugnant, ill-serving, and dangerous sentiment, as we seek Gilad Shalit’s freedom.
Source of aforementioned quote (NYTimes):
http://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/01/opinion/hatred-stalks-the-settlements.htmlÂ
Why are these women getting degrees in Israeli jails? I thought women were not to be educated according to HAMAS-style Islam? HAMAS uses Arab women as shahid factories and cannon fodder and the Israelis are giving them an education? The Zionsit Occupiers are violating the culture of these women! This is "sociocide"!
Unless Israelis grow some they will be swallowed up by the degenerate filth that pervades the modern Middle East. What happened to kidnapping Meshal and then trading him for Shalit? How about assasinating the most prominent members of the Al-Aqsa brigade, and then offering to stop only in exchange for Shalit? It worked before. Let’s try it again!
Thank you for putting into words what so far I have only managed to express as ‘grrr’. For people so keen to use the words ‘Israel’ and ‘disproportionate’ in the same sentence here is your chance to do so legitimately.
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