12.10.2011                      14.Tischrei. 5772                       Erew Sukkot

Hintergrund:

In book, PM warned not to release terrorists

He might be pushing the Schalit deal now, but Binyamin Netanyahu was not always so gung-ho about prisoner exchange deals.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu warned against exchanging terrorists for kidnapped soldiers in his 1995 book, Fighting Terrorism: How Democracies Can Defeat Domestic and International Terrorists, writing that it was “a mistake that Israel made over and over again” and that refusing to release terrorists from prison was “among the most important policies that must be adopted in the face of terrorism.”
“The release of convicted terrorists before they have served their full sentences seems like an easy and tempting way of defusing blackmailed situations in which innocent people may lose their lives, but its utility is momentary at best,” Netanyahu wrote….