What's worse than a prisoner exchange?

[Herschel]

http://web.israelinsider.com/bin/en.jsp?enPage=ViewsPage&enDisplay=view&enDispWhat=object&enDispWho=Article%5El2523&enZone=Views&enVersion=0&

"The international community, concerned with strengthening the position of Palestinian Prime Minister Abu Mazen, is urging Israel to release Palestinians who have murdered Israelis.

There is something terribly out of balance here. Both a lack of parity and of logic seem to have taken hold.

To advance the road map Israel is expected to send back to Gaza and Jenin members of Hamas and Islamic Jihad, two groups most of the world has defined as terrorist organizations.

If the reasonableness of this claim upon Israel contradicts all logic, the fact that no one seems to be urging a parallel display of generosity on the part of Hizbullah to supply even a hint of the whereabouts of the Israelis missing in Lebanon - let alone their release, if they are alive - defies all sense of fair play.

A distinction should be made. Israel still holds in its prisons hundreds of Palestinians, some of whose only crime was being in the wrong place at the wrong time. These Palestinians should be released irrespective of what has been agreed upon in the road map regarding prisoners.
But what the Palestinian leadership is talking about - and the world community seems to support - is Israel releasing murderers and their accomplices. There hasn't been even a hint of a prisoner exchange."

Releasing murderers on the road to peace? Oh, my.

[Jim Sagle]

1. The world community ain't nuthin' but shit.