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Friday, October 21, 2011
Negotiating With Terrorists
The world has just witnessed yet another historic, lopsided prisoner exchange between Israel and a terrorist organization. When Hamas abducted Gilad Shalit back in June of 2006, it followed in the footsteps of Hezbollah and numerous Palestinian groups that had successfully kidnapped and traded Israelis, dead or alive, in return for the fulfillment of their own interests. The Shalit deal resulted in the release of over 1000 Palestinian Arabs, including hundreds with "blood on their hands" that were implicated in some of Israel's worst terrorist attacks. Despite Israeli, American, and other Western claims to the contrary, states regularly engage in negotiations with terrorists.