Concerning should Israel free convicted terrorists, one key argument is mostly ignored

Frimet/Arnold Roth..
This Ongoing War..
21 July '13..

Matters are almost never as clear as they are represented in the news reporting channels to be, but it's more and more clear that a US-brokered deal between Israel and the PA has been reached to start negotiating. And one of the concessions made by Israel to get them started is a promise to free convicted terrorists.

We're hearing about voices that criticize the decision, if a decision was indeed made. Prominent right-wing politician Danny Dayan, for instance, is quoted in Times of Israel ["Releasing Palestinian terrorists ‘immoral and unethical,’ settler leader says"] "lashing out" at minister Yuval Steinitz "for stating that Israel would release Palestinian prisoners in peace talks". Dayan. according to the ToI report, said this would be “immoral and unethical”. Steinitz said on Israel Radio yesterday that

Israel would release Palestinian prisoners but claimed the move was not akin to Israel giving into Palestinian preconditions — a position Israel has categorically rejected. He added that a number of the Palestinian prisoners to be released were “serious” cases, but that a large portion of them had already served many years... Dayan called Steinitz’s announcement a grave mistake. He said Israel’s decision to free “the most serious killers” among the Palestinian terrorists was “immoral and unethical”... [Times of Israel]

Over at Ynet, they are quoting terror victim families who oppose a prisoner release. One of them says "A murderer belongs in jail, no matter if he's a Jew or an Arab. Our family has been ruined and there's no reason for him to go free." And it appears many people agree.

Over recent weeks, 18,000 people signed a petition published by the bereaved families, calling the prime minister not to release prisoners. [Ynet]

Readers of this blog know we tried desperately to prevent our daughter's murderer, a woman called Tamimi, from being set free in the Shalit Transaction of 2011. We failed - and then we failed again (though not for lack of trying) when the murderer sought to be united with her then-fiance and cousin, another unjustly released murderer, a year ago.

Since our daughter Malki was murdered in a Hamas attack on a Jerusalem restaurant in August 2001, the Israeli justice system has acted as if, in the literal sense of these words, we did not exist:

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