The “Self hating Israeli left” sees further proof in the prisoners’ exchange that it was Nassrallah who won Last July’s war
The Israeli left-wing daily, Haaretz, wrote an article in which it argued that the asymmetry of the exchange proves that Nassrallah still has the upper hand and that the war, a total waste, didn’t change anything:
the prisoner exchange deal in the works between Israel and Hezbollah suggests that Nasrallah won the Second Lebanon War. This despite the fact that in the balance of losses – in terms of lives, destruction suffered, political and security capital – he lost. If Israel releases Samir Kuntar for Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev, without receiving Ron Arad or at least information about his whereabouts, the war was pointless and its cost was for naught. This does not necessarily mean that a decision to carry out such a deal would be mistaken, but we should not evade the meaning of the decision. The whole affair deserves to be seriously addressed in the report of the Winograd Committee.
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2 Israel prisoners/corpses for 1 Lebanese prisoner is “asymmetric”? Last time it was hundreds of prisoners in exchange for a drug dealer and two dead soldiers. I think that in comparison, releasing only Samir Kuntar (despite Hezbollah’s failure to deliver anything substantial on Ron Arad) would be quite proportional. In fact, I doubt Hezbollah will ever go for such a deal because Kuntar is not worth it.
Haaretz is a terrible newspaper – and the Israeli left is like the extreme left anywhere in europe.
They all want a world that looks great on paper – but never transforms into the real world.
come on, Ha’aretz is not really left… And any recognition of Hezb at the expense of the state is a victory, in their book.
Jeha, as a whole, Ha’aretz is not Left. The majority of the writers in the newspaper are Left though, often to extremely stupid results. Ha’aretz’s saving grace is that it has a core of high-quality reporters which isn’t really Left or Right.
The Left still has most of the paper, though…
I despise the Talkbacks on the English Haaretz site. But Haaretz itself is ok. Read always the same story on different news channels such as ynet or jpost and youll be just fine to get the nuances of the whole story.