There is Really No Middle Ground On the Wisdom Of This Israeli Action
Involving Trading Of Shalit For Release Of 1,027 Palestinian Terrorists,
So I will give the answer of a Politician: ‘Some of my Friends are for it
Some Of My Friends Are Against IT – And I Am TRULY With MY Friends’
As a trained objective analyst I Know it WILL cost Many Future Lives,
But as a father of 2 sons I know I would not be an objective Analyst!
I’d Probably Not Sacrifice One Son For Many Who’d Die Because Of It.
Because I do Not Always Let the mind of God in Christ operate in Me,
But I Am Eternally Thankful that the man Christ Jesus Did So for Man.
October 14, 2011
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
John 3:16 – For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Philippians 2:4-10 – Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.
[5] Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: [6] Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: [7] But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: [8] And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. [9] Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: [10] That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;
II Peter 3:9 – The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
II Peter 3:15 – And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you;
Begin Excerpt 1 from DEBKAfile Special Report
Hamas will snatch more Israelis until all 8,000 Palestinian terrorists freed
DEBKAfile Special Report
October 12, 20011, 11:09 AM (GMT+02:00)
Tuesday night, Oct. 10, the Israeli cabinet by a majority of 26 approved the accord with Hamas for the release of Gilead Shalit. Three ministers opposed the deal – Avigdor Lieberman and Uzzi Landau of the Israel Beteinu party and Moshe Yaalon of Likud.
The Israeli soldier will gain his freedom – probably next week – after he was hidden by Hamas in the Gaza Strip for more than five years.
Israel will hand over 1,027 Palestinian terrorists, cutting short the life sentences of 280 mass murderers responsible for hundreds of Israeli deaths.
Among them are Israeli Arabs and East Jerusalem residents convicted on charges of terrorismn as concessions made by Israel to clinch the deal. Of the 110 allowed to return to the West Bank and Jerusalem, 55 are members of Hamas.
All Israel’s security chiefs, from Defense Minister Ehud Barak, the Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz, the Shin Bet Director Yoram Cohen and Mossad head Tamir Pardo, approved the exchange, which requires Israel to pay the highest price every to secure the release of one soldier.
It means that hundreds of arch-terrorists, high-profile activists, will be turned loose, although most face deportation overseas, some to Turkey, or to the Gaza Strip.
None is immune from punishment should they repeat their crimes, the Shin Bet Director promised. However, Hamas political leader Khaled Meshaal, who signed the exchange deal, vowed to continue efforts to kidnap Israeli soldiers to obtain the release of more prisoners. The Shalit abduction was not the last, he said: “We got 1,027 out of jail and we’ll recover the remaining 8,000 too.”
He was strongly echoed by radical Palestinian leaders in the Gaza Strip as they prepared a heroes’ welcome for the homecoming terrorists.
The full list is due to be published later Wednesday, Oct. 11 on the Internet. Israelis wishing to appeal against the releases, such as the bereaved families of terrorist victims, will have 48 hours to do so. But Netanyahu’s acceptance of the deal is widely popular and unlikely to be challenged.
Aviva and Noam Shalit, parents of the kidnapped soldier, are finally folding their tent opposite the prime minister’s residence in Jerusalem after a year and two months of occupancy and five years of ceaseless campaigning across the world. They swore they would not go home and return to their lives until they could take Gilad with them.
The Egyptian media in hailing the prisoner exchange highlighted the praise Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu heaped on their government and security services for their key role in brokering the deal.
According to an unconfirmed report, the American-Israeli citizen Ilan Grapel held in Egypt on charges of spying and incitement to burn government buildings is included in the prisoner package in return for the release of more than 80 Egyptians in Israeli jails, most of them security offendors.
Begin Excerpt 2 from DEBKAfile Special Report
Breakthrough for Gilad Shalit’s release outcome of US deal with Hamas
DEBKAfile Special Report
October 11, 2011, 9:40 PM (GMT+02:00)
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu reported to the hastily convened full government session Tuesday night, Oct. 11 that the deal with Hamas for bringing Gilad Shalit home within days was initialed Thursday and signed Monday, Oct. 11. It was the best possible, he said although the agreed price for the swap is heavy: one thousand jailed Palestinian terrorists, including 60 convicted on multiple murders, who will be exiled to the Gaza Strip and Arab countries.
DEBKAfile discloses that secret clauses of the transaction for recovering the Israel soldier, whom Hamas kept hidden for five years, were finalized between the United States, Egypt, Israel and Hamas during US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta’s visits to Israel and Egypt on Sept.
3-4.
Those clauses, negotiated directly between Panetta and Hamas’ political chief Khaled Meshaal, entailed the shutting down of Hamas headquarters in Damascus in order to undercut Syrian President Bashar Assad, Iran and Hizballah and loosen their hold on the Palestinians. Meshaal who visited Tehran a week ago agreed to gradually downgrade his ties with Iran in return for American patronage of Hamas.
Netanyahu told t he Israeli ministers that
he had faced a tough dilemma between rescuing the Israeli soldier and national security and a balance was hard to strike.
But his commitment to saving Gilad Shalit was absolute. The “window of opportunity” presented now may never recur, he warned, given the turbulence besetting the Middle East. He therefore asked
the ministers for their unanimous endorsement of the swap.
During the cabinet meeting, three ministers, Silvan Shalom, Moshe Yaalon and Avigdor Lieberman, voiced reservations in view of the high risk of setting so many terrorists loose.
That window, DEBKAfile reports, was the deal the Obama administration had reached with Hamas leaders and their parent, the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood’s rift with Tehran.
The Prime Minister thanked the Egyptian government and intelligence agencies for their great contribution toward brokering the deal. He also voiced appreciation for the ef
forts of the German mediator and Chancellor Angela Merkel who gave the process her wholehearted support.
Began Excerpt 3 from The Independent via World News via Reuters
Israel rejoices at Shalit deal as critics question the cost
Exchange of some 1,027 Palestinian prisoners for soldier’s freedom rejected by right-wingers
By Catrina Stewart in Jerusalem
Thursday, 13 October 2011
As most Israelis jubilantly awaited the imminent release of Gilad Shalit, the Jewish soldier spirited into Gaza by militants during a cross-border raid five years ago, some were questioning the cost of a historic deal that one Israeli cabinet official called “a huge victory for terror”.
The highly emotive saga that has transfixed the country was concluded with Israel and Hamas, the Islamist rulers of Gaza, sealing a landmark deal late on Tuesday to exchange 1,027 Palestinian prisoners for the soldier’s freedom amid Israeli fears that chaos in the region would soon put a deal out of reach.
It was a testament to the strength of public support for a deal that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was able to whip his cabinet largely into line to vote in favour of the prisoner exchange. But there were some who feared that Israel was paying too high a price. “The release of terrorists is a message that is simple: abductions pay off. Terror pays,” said Uzi Landau, an ultranationalist politician who was one of three cabinet members to oppose the swap, which includes the release of more than 300 Palestinians serving life terms.
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