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This is why hostage and prisoner exchanges are bad. Period.
The disgraceful Gilad Shalit deal led directly to this catastrophe in more ways than one. Not only was Hamas motivated to attack and take hostages because Israel released over 1,000 terrorists to get back a pathetic coward, but one of those terrorists apparently led the current attack.
The good news is it’s his last attack.
On Saturday, the IDF and the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) eliminated Ali Qadi, the “Nukhba Force” commander who led the Hamas massacre on October 7, which killed around 1,300 Israelis.
IDF aircraft, with the intelligence guidance of the Shin Bet and AMAN (Military Intelligence Directorate), targeted the terrorists. In 2005, Qadi was arrested following the kidnapping and murder of Israelis and was later released as part of the Gilad Shalit exchange deal.
It also eliminated dozens of Hamas terrorists, including many from Qadi’s Nukhba Force.
In addition, it said Saturday morning that the IDF assassinated Merad Abu Merad, who was the head of the Hamas aerial system. He was primarily responsible for directing terrorists during the massacre.
The IDF claims to have killed Billal al-Qedra, a Hamas commander in the Nukhba force who they accuse of directing the attacks on Kibbutz Nirim and Nir Oz, in an airstrike last night. pic.twitter.com/dQ1RSU2Yui
— OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical) October 15, 2023
Great. And hopefully Israel actually finishes the job. Because the alternative is trading hostages for terrorists. And what will those released terrorists do next?
Israel not only over a thousand terrorists for Gilad Shalit, but lost over a thousand lives for him. It would have been far cleaner to clean out Hamas then. It will be far cleaner to finish Hamas now than to release more terrorists and wait for the next atrocity.
It looks like the Israelis are doing things right this time. Just exterminate the rodents.
What gives you that idea? Their boisterous rhetoric? They are more likely to repeat the same disasters that they have perpetrated over the lady 40 years.
We’ll see. I think this time is different.
Israel needs to pound the ground until there’s no ground to pound, just a big smoking hole. Keep the fence up and leave the area as a smoldering reminder to all terrorists who would seek to do harm to a free, independent state.
I was called an antisemite and that I was blaming the Jews when I posted this last week.
Netenyahu? Are you kidding me? Netenyahu has been an appeaser, concessionist, and compromiser with Hamas and the Palestinian Authority his whole career. He talks tough but his actions have been the actions of an appeaser.
“This is Netenyahu’s war. The blood here is on Netenyahu. This is his fault. His responsibility . His disaster. . . . Netenyahu has compromised, sold out, negotiated, refused to win, refused to engage in proper war, appeased Hamas and the Palestinian Authority, over, and over, and over again. Going back to the late 1990s. . . He had plenty of opportunity to go into Gaza and destroy them. . . He refused to do that. . . He negotiated with Hamas every time they took hostages and prisoners.” – Yaron Brook
“Breaking News — Israel Under Attack | Yaron Brook Show” (you can skip to 6:30)
The rules should be is to never make deals with Terrorists they belong in Prison facing Execution for their crimes against the innocent
“The disgraceful Gilad Shalit deal led directly to this catastrophe in more ways than one.”
I was among many who opposed the Shalit deal, warning that Israel would rescue one soldier, but at the cost of many, many lives. And I witnessed how the campaign to “pay the price” for his release, orchestrated by his family (understandable) and the media resulted in that price going ever higher.
The price in lives was not long in coming. Recall that in 2014, terrorists captured and murdered three Israeli teenagers. That operation was orchestrated by one of those freed prisoners, al’ Aruri, who was safely residing in Turkey. Those murders sparked the 2014 war with Gaza, costing many lives on the Israeli side. No matter to Hamas as, typically, once the guns went more or less quiet, the aid started flowing to rebuild Gaza. Gaza was always to be made whole, while Hamas had the respite to rebuild and strengthen for the next round.
Hamas leader in Gaza Sinwar was also released as par tof the Shalit deal.