Though I am not one of those who think that you have to act like Hamas or Hezbollah in order to effectively defend yourself from them, I can’t help thinking that this is an error.
If there was some certainty that Regev and Goldwasser were alive then it might be possible to make a case for it but as things stand it’s a rotten deal, one that will only encourage Hezbollah to try again at the first opportunity and doesn’t even give the fuckers an incentive not to murder their prisoners. Quite the contrary. And it’s not like they have never done this before, they have form
