In the same week, Ingrid Betancourt and fourteen other hostages were freed by Colombia’s armed forces from the drug trafficking Marxist guerrillas of the FARC while Israel traded a Lebanese killer of an entire family for two dead Israeli soldiers.
Not exactly a smart deal on Olmert’s part, is it?
What will Israel’s apologists and the fantasists of counter-terrorism say about this? Will they call it appeasing terrorism? Based on past experience, probably not.