Don't Mess with the Zohan

Sirs: Submission to extortion only leads to further kidnappings. It will never end. Let murderers out to commit further murders? It makes no sense.

b"h priority condition : we want our soldiers to come back home alive... to trade kuntar (y"s) and 200 terrorists for slain soldiers will only bring g"f more ...

both easy to say and hard to do. Yes, there should be prisoner exchanges. The lower the ratio the better. I would push for one for one, but 2 for 1 would be ok. The hard part would be in exchanging live prisoners for live prisoners and dead prisoners for dead prisoners. If the agreement to trade is made for a live prisoner who is found to have been killed, then the designated prisoners to have been traded should also be killed and then 'traded'. This will be hard... but necessary.

The so called "prisoner exchange" is just another attempt at giving the Palestinians what they want, hoping they will give us peace in exchange. When will we learn, appeasment never works.

Only if the ZOHAN feeds the prisoners before they are exchanged. He can propel fresh grilled fish at them like in the movie...wait! Force both sides to watch the movie then exchange them, maybe they will suddenly get how ridiculous war really is. The result will initiate a global level healing process where humor and love are used instead of bombs and bullets... we are in the 21st century and anything is possible right?

But only if the captured soldiers are alive. If we trade terrorists for bodies, there will be no incentive to keep those who are captured alive.

For poster #1, who wrote "yes": How many times?

No, we put murderers back on our streets to kill again when terrorists are released. Many of these men have the blood of infants and babies on thier hands. How many more will they kill if given the chance to indulge their hatred?

I was unable to view the video - can't address its content. However, the question of ceding terrorists recalls my experience last summer. I was in Israel at the time of the prisoner exchange - At a coffee bar in the Ashkelon bus depot, I caught glimpses of the camera fixed expectantly on a vacant road. Later, I heard what had arrived at that vacant spot, and ground my teeth. A day or two later, on Shabbos, I was reading Rabbi Hirsch's commentary on Parashas Pinchas. Addressing those who criticize Pinchas' bold act of murder but perhaps the events of that week as well, Rabbi Hirsch cautions, in part, "One who, for the sake of what he imagines to be peace with his fellow men, cedes the field without protest and allows them to stir up strife with God makes common cause -by his very love of peace- with the enemies of the b'rit shalom on earth." I suggest you look up the whole comment in the Hirsch Chumash.

The exchange of prisoners is a one way street. But Only in their direction. We put terrorists back in action for the return of a few bodies.

yes