Tuesday, October 18, 2011

The politics behind the deal



Al Jazeera: The politics behind the prisoner swap 

Like so many other diplomatic and political initiatives in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the recent announcement of a new prisoner release is based on the same solution that has been proposed dozens of times before - only to collapse because the time, and often Israeli political will, wasn't right.
In this case, the separate announcements made by Hamas leader Khaled Meshal and Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, asserted that Hamas would release Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, captured by Hamas in 2006, while.................Read more in the Spotlight

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VK_F0MSrWT8

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