Michael Ejercito wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>> Michael Ejercito wrote:
>>
>>> https://jeffjacoby.com/28340/the-terrible-deja-vu-of-an-israel-hamas-hostage
>>>
>>>
>>> The terrible déjà vu of an Israel-Hamas hostage deal
>>> by Jeff Jacoby
>>> The Boston Globe
>>> January 15, 2025
>>>
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>>>
>>> Supporters greet a busload of Palestinian security prisoners heading to
>>> Gaza City after they were released in exchange for a kidnapped Israeli
>>> soldier, Gilad Shalit, in October 2011. Among the prisoners turned loose
>>> were the men who would mastermind the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas terror
>>> atrocity in Israel.
>>>
>>>
>>> FOR THE past 15 months, Israel has fought with brilliance and tenacity
>>> to crush Hamas and ensure that an unspeakable atrocity like the one the
>>> terrorist group unleashed on Oct. 7, 2023, never recurs. Yet now it is
>>> on the point of making a grievous blunder — of repeating a grievous
>>> blunder — that all but guarantees that more Israelis will be killed,
>>> maimed, and abducted in future atrocities.
>>> According to multiple news accounts based on information from
>>> negotiators meeting in Qatar, Hamas and Israel are close to finalizing a
>>> deal for the release of some of the hostages, nearly all of them
>>> civilians, who have been held in Gaza for more than 460 days. Under the
>>> agreement's reported terms, 33 of the 98 hostages still in Hamas
>>> captivity (not all of them alive) would be freed in exchange for a
>>> six-week cease-fire and the release of an estimated 1,300 Palestinian
>>> security prisoners, including as many as 200 who are serving life
>>> sentences for murder. Negotiations to return additional Israeli hostages
>>> would begin during the third week of the cease-fire.
>>>
>>> The proposed agreement would also require Israeli forces to withdraw
>>>from the narrow buffer zone that separates Gaza from Egypt. For years
>>> leading up to Oct. 7, Hamas smuggled enormous quantities of weapons,
>>> ammunition, construction material, and personnel into Gaza by building
>>> tunnels across the corridor. As recently as Dec. 25, 2024, Israel's
>>> defense minister insisted that Jerusalem would never permit Hamas to
>>> regain control of the corridor.
>>>
>>> All of which means that if this deal is approved, it is a certainty that
>>> Israeli hostages will remain in Gaza's dungeons and that hundreds of
>>> Palestinian militants — including many with blood on their hands — will
>>> return to the fight. Despite everything Israel has done to destroy
>>> Hamas's infrastructure and decapitate its leadership, it will remain a
>>> deadly foe capable of plotting further atrocities.
>>>
>>> Will Israel never learn?
>>>
>>> On numerous occasions in the past, Israeli governments have agreed to
>>> similarly lopsided exchanges with terrorist organizations like Hamas,
>>> Hezbollah, and the Palestine Liberation Organization. Time and again,
>>> Israel has paid for the freedom of a few hostages or prisoners of war,
>>> or sometimes just their remains, by releasing hundreds of violent
>>> prisoners, many of them responsible for the deaths of civilians. Time
>>> and again, the newly freed terrorists have picked up where they left off.
>>>
>>> In May 1985, after nearly a year of negotiation, Israel agreed to
>>> release 1,150 Palestinian prisoners convicted of murder and other
>>> security offenses in exchange for three Israeli soldiers held by the
>>> Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a notorious terror group.
>>> Among those released was a Muslim Brotherhood operative named Ahmed
>>> Yassin, who had served less than two years of a 13-year sentence for
>>> unlawfully stockpiling weapons and establishing jihadist cells. Once
>>> freed, Yassin resumed his terrorist activity. In 1987 he launched Hamas
>>> for the purpose of exterminating Israel and carrying out the mass murder
>>> of Jews.
>>>
>>> In October 2011, to bring home a kidnapped soldier named Gilad Shalit,
>>> Israel let 1,027 security prisoners walk free. Among those released were
>>> two notorious Palestinian terrorists, Yahya Sinwar and Rawhi Mushtaha.
>>> Sinwar went on to become Hamas's senior commander and Mushtaha his top
>>> lieutenant; together they planned the horrific events of Oct. 7.
>>>
>>> By agreeing to let murderous and implacable enemies like Yassin, Sinwar,
>>> and Mushtaha go free, in other words, Israel has repeatedly paved the
>>> way for more innocent victims to be killed, tortured, and traumatized.
>>> Now it seems ready to do so again — and most Israelis are fine with
>>> that. Not because they are unaware of the devil's bargain they are
>>> striking, but because the moral obligation and emotional yearning to
>>> redeem captives is so deeply entrenched in the psyche of the Jewish
>>> state that for most Israelis, every other consideration pales in importance.
>>>
>>> An opinion survey released this week finds that 64 percent of Israelis
>>> support releasing even terrorists with "blood on their hands" if that is
>>> the price of bringing hostages home.
>>>
>>> Would they feel that way if they knew in advance exactly which innocent
>>> victims would lose their lives, limbs, or liberty at the hands of the
>>> violent prisoners to be exchanged for (some of) the hostages? Does the
>>> moral obligation to redeem captives require Israel to, in effect,
>>> condemn innumerable others to death — or fates worse than death?
>>>
>>> On Monday, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, one of the few
>>> high-ranking Israeli officials to condemn the impending agreement,
>>> called it "a catastrophe." He is right. The way to bring home the
>>> hostages is to achieve the goal Israel's leaders have repeatedly
>>> articulated — a total victory over Hamas culminating in its
>>> unconditional surrender. Another wholesale release of prisoners will not
>>> speed such a victory but prevent it. It will mean new pain, loss, and
>>> grief. And it will guarantee that this terrible war, which has already
>>> cost Jews and Arabs so much, will cost them even more.
>>
>> The absolutely only godly way to permanently defeat all enemies of
>> Israel, including either Hamas and/or Hezbollah now but also all
>> others in the future, is by lifting up Israel's
>> http://WonderfullyHungry.org (Luke 24:42-3) Messiah.
>
> Of course!
>
>>
>> Source:
>> https://bit.ly/3PqCwTM
>>
>> Indeed, I am http://WonderfullyHungry.org for food right now (Luke
>> 6:21a) and hope you, Michael, and others reading this, also have a
>> healthy appetite for food right now too.
>>
>> So how are you ?
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

While wonderfully hungry in the Holy Spirit, Who causes (Deuteronomy
8:3) us to hunger, I note that you, Michael, are rapture ready (Luke
17:37 means no COVID just as eagles circling over their food have no
COVID) and pray (2 Chronicles 7:14) that our Everlasting (Isaiah 9:6)
Father in Heaven continues to give us "much more" (Luke 11:13) Holy
Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23) so that we'd have much more of His Help to
always say/write that we're "wonderfully hungry" in **all** ways
including especially caring to "convince it forward" (John 15:12) with
all glory (Psalm112:1) to GOD (aka HaShem, Elohim, Abba, DEO), in
the name (John 16:23) of LORD Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Amen.

Laus DEO !

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Be hungrier, which really is wonderfully healthier especially for
diabetics and other heart disease patients:

http://bit.ly/HeartDocAndrew touts hunger (Luke 6:21a) with all glory
( http://bit.ly/Psalm112_1 ) to GOD, Who causes us to hunger
(Deuteronomy 8:3) when He blesses us right now (Luke 6:21a) thereby
removing the http://WDJW.great-site.net/VAT from around the heart

....because we mindfully choose to openly care with our heart,

HeartDoc Andrew <><
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Andrew B. Chung, MD/PhD
Cardiologist with an http://bit.ly/EternalMedicalLicense
2028 & upwards non-partisan candidate for U.S. President:
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