The captured Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit was released today, after five years of imprisonment by Hamas. His ransom? It included the release of 1,027 prisoners, many of them terrorists.
Will some of the released prisoners commit further acts of terror, meaning that Shalit was ransomed with the blood of Jews yet to be murdered? Almost certainly so. Will the Israeli government’s willingness to pay this thousandfold ransom embolden Hamas to commit further abductions? Again, almost certainly so.
Writing in The Jerusalem Post, Caroline Glick makes these points, and more — including another term of Shalit’s ransom you may not have been aware of.
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