I'm no longer sad...

[eumelia]

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.

Comments

[lishablog.livejournal.com]

I was shocked when I looked at the news on the Web this morning and saw the black boxes, and that shock just keeps coming back in harder and harder waves... What the hell? Did we really just hand over all those people and all those bodies for TWO (2) corpses? Did they really string us along, pretending that these two men might possibly be alive, maybe possibly? And did we just FALL for it?

My heart aches desperately for the Regev and Goldwasser families. I'm so sorry that all they got back was memories and closure. It's not enough. It's really not enough.

[schemingreader.livejournal.com]

I listened to the BBC this morning. After the report on the exchange, three listeners from Lebanon wrote to the Beeb on email to say that they thought it was wrong of Hisbollah to make the families wait to hear whether their sons were alive.

It made me cry to hear that. I wouldn't have expected it.

[sentjao.livejournal.com]

"Bargaining land for peace makes sense as a large cause of the strife and conflict is over land."

I am not convinced, that this is the case. If it were merely a territorial problem, it would have been solved long ago. Lebanon has no territorial claims to Israel.

The struggle is between humanism and barbarity.