Olmert Kind Of Says The Right Things About Prisoner Swaps

By
Omri Ceren
– April 24, 2007Posted in: Politics Israeli

We pass this on purely as a curiosity, since we can’t fit it into Olmert’s political philosophy or into what everyone knows is going to happen:

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, telling bereaved families of terror victims Monday that their feelings would be taken into account in seeking the release of captured soldiers, pledged not to repeat “mistakes made in the past,” when terrorists freed in exchange deals again engaged in deadly attacks on Israelis… Addressing the memorial service for victims of terror, Olmert said that “in the range of heavy and agonizing considerations involved, there is, of course, an honorable place for consideration of your feelings and those of the bereaved families, the victims of acts of hatred and terror.”

We don’t want to spoil everybody’s Tuesday, but Palestinian terrorists are going to have to be traded to get Shalit back home. And Shalit is going to come home. The negotiating will be about how many and what kind of terrorists – but for a deal that didn’t include any arch-terrorists, we have to assume that support would hover somewhere north of eighty-percent of Israelis. It’s going to happen. The Palestinians seem to think that one Israeli boy is worth one thousand Palestinians. The Israelis seem loathe to argue.

References:
* Olmert vows not to repeat ‘past mistakes’ of prisoner swaps [Ha'aretz]

Previously:
* Hamas Getting Ready To Start Another War
* MR Prediction: Olmert Doesn’t Have The Political Capital To Meet Hamas’s Terms, Pull Off The Shalit Deal
* Israel Draws a Line in the Sand: Only Low-Ranking Terrorists To Be Freed. For Shalit. For Now. Maybe.