Israel agrees to free killer in return for soldiers' bodies
How shameful that Olmert will trade now for two dead bodies, when he could have traded in 2006 for the two soldiers themselves and prevented the deaths of thousands in the Israel-Lebanon war.Israel agreed yesterday to free a notorious Lebanese killer and several other Hizbullah fighters in exchange for the bodies of the two Israeli soldiers whose abduction culminated in the 2006 Lebanon war.
The decision to agree to the UN-brokered deal came after six hours of intense discussion by the Israeli cabinet which voted 22-3 in favour of the exchange even though it was finally revealed that the soldiers were dead.
At the time he was too proud to do so and insisted on launching a war, a war which most of us found puzzling as it was impossible to see an attainable objective. In the end he led Israel to defeat against Hizbullah, he achieved not a single war objective, he got none of his prisoners back, he killed thousands of Lebanese civilians and caused billions of dollars worth of damage to Beirut . And in the last few days of the war, he dropped thousands of cluster bombs, at the very time that he knew that a civilian population would soon be returning to their homes.
In any just society, ruled by international law, he should be in jail for what he did.
After the war, his approval rate in Israel hovered at around 3%, a rate that made George Bush look popular. Now that he has done this deal, a deal which was always open to him at the time, his approval rate deserves to fall even lower.
Thousands died because this man was too proud then to accept the deal that he agreeing to today. That's simply shameful.
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