Hamashole To Israel: “You Guys Value Human Life”
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s a flying pig.
“A senior Hamas official praised the “strength” Israel showed in a prisoner exchange that swapped more than 1,000 Palestinian convicts for one captured Israeli soldier.
To do what Israel did shows the value Israeli society places on human life,” Salah al-Arouri, a member of the Islamist militant group’s politburo, said this week on Israel Radio from Damascus, Syria.
“This is a pillar of Israel’s strength – to wage a war to free one man, to free a thousand prisoners for him,” he said, referring to the Jewish state’s efforts to free Staff Sgt. Gilad Schalit from his Hamas captors. “This is the strength of a society and an army.”
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“As someone from the outside, as an enemy, I would prefer that Israel abandon that value, even at the cost of not freeing our prisoner.”
And he’s not alone in the Arab world.
Israel Channel Two television quoted columnist K. al-Ahmed, writing in the al-Qabas newspaper in Kuwait, as saying: “I wish I were Gilad Schalit; I wish my country cared so much about me.”
Syrian blogger Soori Madsoos posted online: “I just envy [the Israeli] government because it cares for its citizens. Our government kills us like animals and our Arab neighbors say it’s just an internal matter.”
Take that, Deborah Orr!
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Hamashole To Israel: “You Guys Value Human Life”: Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s a… http://t.co/Uk0qd0uJ
.@DeborahJaneOrr Even Hamas knows #Israel values human life so much: http://t.co/icqlP8no I challenge you to post this on The Guardian
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"@israellycool:Even Hamas knows #Israel values human life so much: http://t.co/r2XGYy97 I challenge you to post this on The Guardian" Or BBC