Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: non e' una vittoria per Hamas

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=1508
 
 
 
Many Israeli citizens believe that the government's decision to
release the terrorists in exchange for Gilad Shalit derived from
Israel's strength. This perception is based on the realization that
only a strong and solid society, which feels a mutual responsibility
for its soldiers and citizens and a nationalist-family approach to its
children sent on a mission would endanger itself so clearly and so
severely for one soldier.
 
The Palestinians, whose prisoners have spent dozens of years in
Israeli jails, believe the prisoner exchange deal stems from social
weakness which in turn reflects the collective's inability to stand up
to the pressures involved and act with the necessary patience. From
the Palestinians' viewpoint, Israel's self-image as a country with
strong ethical beliefs is not important at all.
 
[...]
 
 
A reasonable number of Palestinians note that while the Islamists are
willing to kill their people and prisoners in the enemy's hands as
part of a religious, instrumental approach, the Jews are willing to
sacrifice their civilian's security for the life of a single Israeli
captive. A brave speaker publicly claimed on TV that the deal is a
disgrace to the Arabs and that if Hamas had the same number of Jewish
prisoners – it would refuse to exchange them for one Palestinian
prisoner. The same speaker, in this context, expressed an open
appreciation for Israel and its treatment of its soldiers and
citizens.
 
[...]
 
What do the Palestinians really think about the release of 1,000
terrorists for one Jew? Within the vocal wave of satisfaction that
generally comes over the Palestinians in situations like the murder of
a young Jewish boy by a woman terrorist, or the release of Hamas
prisoners at this time, you occasionally also hear those who have a
sense of self-criticism, a feeling of humiliation from being exposed
as something cheap. There are not many brave ones in this society,
whose members generally think and act in ways that reflect
characteristics of herd-like repression and hide their real opinions,
in which the individual in most cases plays a small, instrumental and
voiceless part in the collective riding along, mainly raising dust.
 
Critics who dare to criticize or say unpopular things out loud take a
chance and are liable to pay a very high price. And indeed, a critical
minority in this society believes that the Palestinians even have
difficulty analyzing situations to the core and to have an honest and
truthful discussion with themselves about achievements and failures.
This failure leads them to "decorate" today's reality and sometimes
bring it to the level of absurd lies about themselves and leads to
incredible conflict.
 
[...]
 
At the basis of this assumption lies the following sentence which is
said by the leaders over and over: "You cannot do to us what we do to
you." They are right. There is a real difference between the operating
code of Jews and that of Islamic Palestinians. We are not just talking
about the science achievement and Nobel Prizes the Jewish people have
to show for themselves. We are mainly talking about the Jewish way of
life compared to the world's Industry of Death that the radical
Islamists are creating as a counterbalance. Unfortunately there is no
"deal" that can remove Hamas itself from the prison of lies and
conflicts to which they are chained.

 for its soldiers and citizens
 
e la responsabilità per le vittime dei terroristi liberati non esiste?

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conta di piu' l'impegno a salvare una vita umana.