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The 'maths' behind the Shalit prisoner swap : Comments
By Manny Waks and Geoffrey Winn, published 31/10/2011No matter how tortuous the negotiation that preceded Shalit's release, it is the moral calculation, once reached by the Netanyahu Government, that most readily reconciles the gross discrepancy in the numbers.
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1.The USA is one of our allies. I cannot see that their actions in Iraq can avoid the blanket that you placed over "our allies".
2.I believe that in general you are correct about the UK in Northern Ireland, although in the contemporary history of that conflict, there were extreme actions perpetrated by the Brits. In the case of Israel, I do wonder if the "moral" standards are very screwed up under the threat of their survival being at stake, year after year.The tragedy of the conflict I guess is no different to other conflicts: The inability of each side to see each other as equal human beings, and to accept that each casualty is a catastrophe, regardless of whether the victim is Israeli or Palestinian.