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Originally Posted by August
You don't see how trading one hostage for thousands might motivate them to try this again?
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Maybe, but exchanges to bad conditions happened before and will happen again.
They even exchanged corpses of fallen IDF soldiers against Palestinian prisoners.
What is the alternative: "Kill him, we don't negotiate. We don't give a crap about our own!"
This message can be even more devastating in long terms, at least for Israel's own soldiers.
And as said before: Israel tried to get Shalit out by other means before, sadly with no success. So maybe after 5 years (1/5th of Shalit's life) it was time to walk a little off the beaten path.
It also hurts my stomach to know that many of the released prisoners are hardcore terrorist bastards, we should have no illusions there: those are the people Hamas cares for and wants to have out, not little Palestinians who could not pay a parking ticket.