New York – NY Times Editorial: Bibi Says Yes To Hamas, No To Palestinian Authority

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    Released Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit (C) is seen next to his mother Aviva as they go for a short walk outside their home in Mitzpe Hila October 19, 2011. Shalit and hundreds of Palestinians crossed Israel's borders in opposite directions on Tuesday as a thousand-for-one prisoner swap brought joy to families but did little to ease decades of conflict.  REUTERS/Nir Elias New York – We share the joy of Israelis over the release of Sgt. First Class Gilad Shalit, who was held by Hamas for five years. We will leave it to the Israeli people to debate whether the deal — which includes the release of more than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners — will make their country safer or lead to more violence or more abductions of Israeli soldiers or other citizens.

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    We are already concerned that the deal will further thwart an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement, the only real guarantee of lasting security for both sides.

    One has to ask: If Mr. Netanyahu can negotiate with Hamas — which shoots rockets at Israel, refuses to recognize Israel’s existence and, on Tuesday, vowed to take even more hostages — why won’t he negotiate seriously with the Palestinian Authority, which Israel relies on to help keep the peace in the West Bank?

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    5TResident
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    5TResident
    12 years ago

    The Times is clueless.

    lamdan
    lamdan
    12 years ago

    So Bibi can learn how to be Pro-israel from the NYT that’s interesting

    eighthcomment
    eighthcomment
    12 years ago

    The PA had no control of Gilad. Stupid journalism

    KVETCH
    KVETCH
    12 years ago

    very simple,because they had something we wanted

    12 years ago

    The only thing I can think after reading this ed is that the writer must have been drunk. What in the world does the PA have to do with Hamas who was holding Shalit.

    Yisroel
    Yisroel
    12 years ago

    It reality, the Shalit deal helps to derail any peace deal with the Palistinians. There can never be peace when the Pals do not recognize the right of the Jews to exist. Any peace is therefore a deception and places our enemies closer to our borders and takes away our holy city Jerusalem. This deal makes Abas look bad and makes his ability to make a (sham of) peace deal more difficult while reducing pressure from Israel to negotiate. Hashem has saved us again. The prophets (look in the books of Tzephania, Yoel, and Yechezkail) tell us there will never be peace with our enemies until the son of David, the Moshiach comes.

    BaalMussar
    BaalMussar
    12 years ago

    The only time we get the Times to write about the rockets thrown at Israel is when they can bring them down on something else.

    victorg
    victorg
    12 years ago

    Amazing how they posture in every sentence – private first class Shalit-implying he was a prisoner of war, not someone who was kidnapped from his bed.

    More than 1000 Palestinian prisoners. Prisoners not terrorists, not convicted murderers.

    And then they make it netanyahus fault for negotiating with hamas. But if he hadn’t negotiated it would have been his fault for that.