This Ongoing War..
13 June '13..
When the government of Israel transacted a deal with Hamas via various intermediaries for the release of a young Israeli captive Gilad Shalit in 2011, we felt something seriously wrong was being done.
We were careful in what we said and did throughout the debate about what Israel should do to secure Shalit's freedom. We publicly expressed the deepest revulsion at the idea that one specific woman, the main planner of the massacre that took the life of our fifteen year-old daughter Malki was among the convicted murderers and terrorists to be unjustly freed from Israeli prisons.
We pointed out that she represented less than one tenth of a percent of the people on the list, and that removing her from it was essential to preserving a semblance of dignity for the victims (ourselves among them) and some respect for basic notions of justice.
Taking her off the list would certainly not have endangered the completion of the deal to get back Shalit. The woman was not only an unrepentant murderer convicted in court on her own admission. She was also an outspoken advocate for the idea that the killings she planned and executed were right, that she would do the same again if the opportunity were given to her and that others ought to emulate her actions. In short, the very last sort of person to allow back out onto the streets and airwaves of the jihadist world.
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