Making the tough choices
- Author: Uriel Heilman
- Filed under: Arab-Israeli Conflict, Israel
Jul 22,2008
Shlomo Avineri, a former director general of Israel’s Foreign Ministry and now a professor of political science at Hebrew University, writes in Ha’aretz that it’s time to restore sanity to Israel’s negotiations over its captive soldiers:
Anyone looking in from the outside at the emotional turmoil and media circus surrounding the return of the bodies of Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser would likely have concluded that Israel is run not by the government but by families worried about the fate of their loved ones. Since the matter of Gilad Shalit has still not been solved, it is worth returning some sanity to the public debate, and not to repeat our mistakes.
He made the same argument in Ha’aretz last week.
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3 Responses for "Making the tough choices"
If Israel had a death penalty there would not be the kind of hostage taking there is now. Murderers wouldn’t be available for exchange. Death is something Arabs understand. Releasing Kantar is regarded as an Arab victory. I fail to understand how it is more humane to let a murderer live so that he can kill again than to dispose of him and possibly stop hostage taking.
I could not agree more that the death penalty needs to be revived. It has lanquished in the spiritual wasteland created by rampant liberalism. This is true not only in Israel but in the US too. When I was young murderers KNEW they will be held to account for their crimes by paying the Final Price. As a result, there was way less murder.
There is NO evidence the death penalty was ever an effective deterrent
to murder.
In fact criminologists have evidence and research proving that capital punishment is NOT a deterrent, in fact it is likely to cause more murders - and killing of police who attempt to arrest.
“was young murderers KNEW they will be held to account for their crimes by paying the Final Price. As a result, there was way less murder.” What a bunch of ignorant bunk!
Is an ignorant comment by someone who believes “if I believe it then it is true”.
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