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Eumelia ([personal profile] eumelia) wrote2008-07-16 04:36 pm

I'm no longer sad...

I'm fucking pissed off.

What I called sadness before was the simmering of low grade anger.

Two dead men for a convicted murderer, four militants and almost two hundred bodies.

It's obscene.

As I mentioned in my previous entry the only good thing that came out of macabre exchange is the fact that the Regevs and Goldwassers can mourn properly and move on.

At this point there really is no problem for Hamas to ax Gilad Shalit because they know that Israel will pay whatever they demand for the body of a dead soldier.

Bargaining land for peace makes sense as a large cause of the strife and conflict is over land. Exchanging combatants for combatants makes sense as it is akin to a POW swap (which would work if each side considered the other worthy opponents but that's an all together different matter).

Hizbullah and Hamas are calling this an honourable exchange. I dunno, creating this kind of turmoil in families lives lacks any kind of honour that I've heard of. Maybe I'm projecting my own perception of what "good form" is, but there it is.

I hope everybody is fucking pleased.

[identity profile] eumelia.livejournal.com 2008-07-17 09:39 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not really surprised, most people have an innate sense of compassion in the face of real agony and grief.

That and the fact that Hizbullah have been behaving like a bunch of school kids that pulled a truly horrible prank on someone and got away with it.