This Ongoing War: Remembering Where Terrorists Belong

The likelihood that Israel would be willing to put hundreds of terrorists back in play as the price of Gilad Shalit's freedom from a Hamas dungeon regularly rises and falls. Frimet and Arnold Roth of This Ongoing War think it's rising again now, and felt the need to say something against an awful idea based on some very flawed thinking.

Remembering where terrorists belong
By Frimet and Arnold Roth
Jerusalem

On Remembrance Day, we Israeli families who have experienced terror at first hand are traditionally accorded national commiseration. Though our pain is constant, we are dutifully restrained throughout the year. But today, society, friends, community and nation encourage us to release our grief.

That concession is appreciated this year more than usual. It comes at an especially trying period for terror victims. The Israeli news media are waging a high-intensity campaign to agitate for the release of terrorist murderers in order to secure the release of kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit.

To help win our hearts and minds, journalists and politicians have focused their efforts on minimizing the pain of terror victims and questioning the motives that bring them to oppose the release of murderers.


Just a day ago, the eve of this year’s Remembrance Day, we learned that negotiations with Hamas over the release of terrorist-prisoners in return for Shalit may have progressed after months of stalemate.

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