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Debate on prisoner deal

Israel has been engaged in heated debate in recent days about the efficacy of trading Arab prisoners with blood on their hands for the remains of two Israeli soldiers kidnapped by Hezbollah in July 2006.

The Jerusalem Post's Matthew Wagner weighs in with a piece on what the Jewish sages might have said about this swap.

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