German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Friday called for the release of captive IDF soldier Gilad Schalit.
Merkel, speaking at a joint appearance with the French president called Schalit's release "a very important matter," ahead of the fifth anniversary of the IDF soldier's kidnapping by Hamas terrorists.
According to German government sources, there is a deal on the table in which Israel would release approximately 1,000 prisoners in exchange for Schalit. The deal was rejected by Hamas' armed wing, the Izzadin Kassam Brigades, despite approval by the groups political wing, according to German officials.
I want Gilad back. He has been locked away in a terrorist prison for years. But releasing 1000 terrorists in exchange? How many innocent people would die at the hands of those terrorists once they were free?
The exchange should only ever be one for one. Never should so many animals be released to murder more innocent Israelis for the price of one man.
I've seen some claims that Mossad has been tracking down Gilad and that his captors have been dying one by one. These policies should be continued, but at no point should any more than one single terrorist ever be released in exchange for our own people, lest those terrorists then kill or capture more of our own. We can't reward evil.
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