Het is niet zeker of de ontvoerde Israëlische soldaten nog in leven zijn, en Hezbollah leider Nasrallah weigert informatie over hen 'weg te geven'. Voor ieder stukje informatie zal hij de vrijlating van een groep Palestijnse gevangenen eisen, en als ze straks dood blijken te zijn zal hij hun lichamen duur verkopen zoals ook gebeurde met drie in 2000 door Hezbollah ontvoerde soldaten.
Vanuit zijn positie is dit natuurlijk erg slim. Hij weet dat Israël bereid is veel te 'betalen' omdat het in de Joodse cultuur zit dat je al je mensen thuis brengt, hij weet dat de families van de ontvoerde soldaten veel invloed hebben op de publieke opinie en de politiek (een probleem dat alleen in democratieën bestaat), en hij weet wat Israël in eerdere deals heeft gegeven. 1000 Palestijnse gevangenen, met bloed aan hun handen uiteraard, voor beantwoording van de vraag of de soldaten nog in leven zijn, indien nog in leven nog 1000 voor de vraag of ze gezond zijn, of zou het 1000 gevangenen per vraag per soldaat zijn? Altijd hoog inzetten. Voor summiere informatie over de omstandigheden waarin ze worden gehouden, voor een levensteken van een van hen, het overbrengen van een boodschap via een derde, voor dit alles zal men hoge aantallen gevangenen in ruil eisen.
De Israëlische politiek worstelt ondertussen met de keuze tussen twee onmogelijke eisen. Als er al gevangenen worden vrij gelaten wil men dat alleen voor vrijlating van de soldaten doen, men wil niet in dit macabere spel worden getrokken. Maar mag je je eigen soldaten, die bereid zijn hun leven te geven voor verdediging van het land, achterlaten? Moet je niet alles doen om ze terug te krijgen?
De enige remedie tegen deze morele chantage is te stoppen met gevangenendeals. Gevangenen kunnen om twee redenen worden vrijgelaten: omdat hun tijd erop zit of omdat Israël ze vrijwillig amnestie verleent, zoals de 256 gevangenen afgelopen vrijdag. Ontvoerde soldaten moeten, hoe pijnlijk ook, worden beschouwd als verloren, net als alle andere soldaten die tijdens de Tweede Libanonoorlog zijn gesneuveld. Uiteindelijk zal dit meer levens redden dan het ingaan op de eisen van de ontvoerders.
Ratna
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'Hizbullah's military might is restored'
JPost.com Staff, THE JERUSALEM POST Jul. 23, 2007
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1184766044844&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Hizbullah has restored its military capability and replenished its stockpiles of weapons and missiles since the end of the Second Lebanon War, Israel Radio quoted a senior defense official as saying Tuesday morning.
The official claimed that Syria was transferring weapons to Hizbullah with the full knowledge of the Lebanese army and behind UNIFIL's back.
He said that Hizbullah didn't want to ignite the region at the moment but preferred a period of quiet so that it could restore the sites from which the rockets were launched during last summer's war.
On Monday, Hizbullah Chief Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah refused to say whether kidnapped reservists Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev were alive.
"The French foreign minister understood that they are alive, but our people do not tend to answer questions of this kind," said Nasrallah in an interview with Al Jazeera, broadcast by Qatari-based satellite television.
The head of the guerrilla group was referring to a recent statement made by French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner who said that he "understood" the soldiers were alive after talks with Hizbullah officials in Paris last week.
Nasrallah claimed that he was the sole official authorized to give details on the matter and added that "for every utterance such as this we can receive human compensation, and therefore there is no reason that we would give information for free."
During an earlier section of the same interview released Sunday, Nasrallah announced that Hizbullah had the ability to launch rockets against any point in Israel.
Hizbullah had the capability to strike every part of Israel during last summer's war, and retains that capability, he said. "Even in the months of July and August 2006 there was not one place in occupied Palestine that we could not reach, every point and every corner," Nasrallah was quoted as saying. "I stress that we can do this today as well."
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'Hizbullah's military might is restored'
JPost.com Staff, THE JERUSALEM POST Jul. 23, 2007
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1184766044844&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Hizbullah has restored its military capability and replenished its stockpiles of weapons and missiles since the end of the Second Lebanon War, Israel Radio quoted a senior defense official as saying Tuesday morning.
The official claimed that Syria was transferring weapons to Hizbullah with the full knowledge of the Lebanese army and behind UNIFIL's back.
He said that Hizbullah didn't want to ignite the region at the moment but preferred a period of quiet so that it could restore the sites from which the rockets were launched during last summer's war.
On Monday, Hizbullah Chief Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah refused to say whether kidnapped reservists Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev were alive.
"The French foreign minister understood that they are alive, but our people do not tend to answer questions of this kind," said Nasrallah in an interview with Al Jazeera, broadcast by Qatari-based satellite television.
The head of the guerrilla group was referring to a recent statement made by French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner who said that he "understood" the soldiers were alive after talks with Hizbullah officials in Paris last week.
Nasrallah claimed that he was the sole official authorized to give details on the matter and added that "for every utterance such as this we can receive human compensation, and therefore there is no reason that we would give information for free."
During an earlier section of the same interview released Sunday, Nasrallah announced that Hizbullah had the ability to launch rockets against any point in Israel.
Hizbullah had the capability to strike every part of Israel during last summer's war, and retains that capability, he said. "Even in the months of July and August 2006 there was not one place in occupied Palestine that we could not reach, every point and every corner," Nasrallah was quoted as saying. "I stress that we can do this today as well."
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