Talking With the Enemy - 11 Jan 09 - Part 2

On July 12 2006 Hezbollah captured two Israeli soldiers in a cross-border raid which triggered a massive Israeli bombardment and incursion.

Despite the death of as many as 1,200 Lebanese and 160 Israelis, mostly soldiers, Israel failed to win the freedom of its soldiers.




The story of the negotiations and exchanges between Israel and Hezballah has been one of a high-stakes game of tough and tortuous bargaining between deadly foes over prisoners and corpses. It reveals an intriguing insight into the shadowy world of deals amid conflict.

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[glenwold]

Hezbollah got POWs released including Samir who was locked up for nigh on thirty years. The bodies of fallen resistance fighters were also returned to their families. In return the jews got a bag of bones. Sounds like a good deal to me.

[MalmoH]

Good comment! Also, Israel failed to take the captured soldiers back (main goal in the Lebanon war in 2006).

[phadil]

The captured soldiers was an excuse only. Israel need pretext to invade South Lebanon. It's possible that the route for the border patrols was deliberately compromise by MOSSAD to hezbollah beforehand to temp Hezbollah into kidnapping them. But when the war goes badly, pressure came from the Israeli public to see that at least the captured soldiers or their remains were returned to their home. And so came the negtiation that Olmert would've never care to do otherwise.

[dnezekiel]

@glenwold yes a good deal indeed, a dead Israeli is worth a 100s of Arabs...after all the moslems lives are worthless...Time to Nuke Damascus and Teheran and start making an example !

[dnezekiel]

@glenwold yes a good deal indeed, a dead Israeli is worth a 100s of Arabs...after all the moslems are worthless...time for another Holy Crusade!

[SuperSaiyanX]

@warpedcomedy Israel has turned into what it hated the most,a Nazi state!!!

[SuperSaiyanX]

Who knows maybe the Israeli soldiers were alive for a time but maybe because of Israels slow reaction and lack of action they were killed.They might of even got 2 live soldiers back!!!

[mohakhed]

Hezbollah is really amazing.

[truediabolique69]

Kuntar's life is not worth more than any other persons...did anyone really win? What about all the villagers in lebanon who lost their life? why was their no commemoration for them in martyr's square in beirut? the focus on 199 bodies/remains and the POW's ..the real losers are the people of the south who lost everything..including their loved ones.

[debel101]

fuck robert frisk hes a bitch

[warpedcomedy]

@glenwold But Hezbollah got 199 bags of bones too.

[warpedcomedy]

@yngnikko90 Uhh, explain then how we pulverized your country in 2006 and killed 30 times more of you than we lost. Our bombs didn't take shit from you either.