Hostage Deal
Everyone is talking about the hostage deal now. Is it good? Is it bad? I don’t really know the details so I can’t even really comment. And what’s more important than the deal itself, is the follow up to it. But beyond the details of this deal, it’s unfortunately indicative that we’re not leaving the cycle. And that makes me sad. For decades, it has been Israeli morals (as opposed to Torah morals) to make “painful sacrifices” on the alter of peace and redeeming hostages. Is this deal terrible? Was it worse than the Gilad Shalit deal of 2011, which let over 1,000 terrorists out of prison, including Yahya Sinwar, the mastermind of Oct 7? We will only know after the next Oct 7. As long as we keep feeding the cycle, we can’t expect the cycle to stop. What is the cycle? The cycle works something like this: Individual terrorists kill Jews and get sent to prison for life. Then they take Jewish hostages. We negotiate a deal to get our...