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From what I understood (I have a few jewish friends who posted about this on facebook) israel will do anything to release their citizens (no one in any country would serve in an army where your country would leave you to rot and die). of the 1000 prisoners released there are hundreds of convicted and admitted terrorists. since i'm too new here, i can't post a link, but there is a list on wikipedia called list of palestinian and israeli arab prisoners exchanged for gilad shalit.
some of the people on teh list include a woman who seduced a 16 year old boy and killed him, a suicide bomber that survived an attack where 22 were killed, a man who planned 2 bombings that killed a total of 21 teenagers at a dance club, 15 people who were having pizza (mostly women and children, but entire families were wiped out), and 30 people having Passover dinner (also men women and children).
it's one thing to attack soldiers in a war, but another to specifically kill civilians, specifically targeting civilians.
I don't agre with everything israel does, but I think they should be admired for caring so much about their living that they would release murderers to give one person a chance at a life.
i'm sure it was really hard for the victims' families though. i like that israel wouldn't leave a soldier out to rot. i don't think anyone in the world would serve in an army where they would be left to rot. at least they didn't go into (gaza? the west bank?) whereever he ws being held to save him, cause a lot of Palestinians and Israelis would have died.
b the way the wikipedia threads say that the prisoners released were from the hamas's list, not randomly chosen by israel.
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