Ridiculous: media claim 3:1 hostage exchange ratio means Israel does not value Palestinian life
Yasmin Porat: she was an Israeli hostage who escaped Hamas, which is not the same as the current situation – but this is the only image of a former hostage that This Site has at the time of publication.
Dept. of Even-Handedness: after spending a huge amount of time defending Gaza and Palestinians from Israeli falsehoods and propaganda, it is only fair that this idiocy be identified as well.
It has been suggested by some media types that the fact that three Palestinians are being traded for every Israeli hostage means Israel thinks Palestinian lives are worth less than Israeli lives:
Good grief. Just when you thought journalism couldn’t sink any lower in this country. Utterly shameless. pic.twitter.com/QgklRrS8ad
— Bella Wallersteiner 🇺🇦 (@BellaWallerstei) November 23, 2023
This has been seized by the usual propagandists:
So today we’ve seen The Guardian quote an Irish ex-diplomat saying it’s ‘freeing’ to have so few Jews in Ireland.
And Sky News suggesting Israel doesn’t value Palestinian life because Hamas are forcing them to release prisoners at a 3:1 ratio.
I am ashamed of British media.
— Heidi Bachram 🎗️ (@HeidiBachram) November 23, 2023
But of course this time they have a point.
This Writer hasn’t thought for a moment that the numbers we’re seeing mean Israel doesn’t value Palestinian lives as highly as those of Israelis.
It seems far more likely to me that Hamas demanded three Palestinians for every Israeli and saw that wish granted.
The suggestion that the ceasefire was delayed because of further Hamas demands tends to support that thesis.
I hope none of you have been seduced by this particular form of twisted reasoning.
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Are you aware of the Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange (Hebrew: עסקת שליט; Arabic: صفقة شاليط), also known as Wafa al-Ahrar (Arabic: وفاء الأحرار) (“Faithful to the free”), which followed a 2011 agreement between Israel and Hamas to release Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in exchange for 1,027 prisoners. Information from Wiki.
My reasoning is that the 3:1 Ratio was agreed as the majority of “prisoners” – 74 in fact, were imprisoned without trial in some cases for years just for throwing stones at Israeli soldiers.
Despite the Right-Wing Lunatic Rhetoric, none of them are Murderes.
So even though the Israeli’s do appear to believe themselves to be Superior usually, at least they are admitting to cruelly imprisoning children without trial for minor offences.
The morals behind holding them hostage in the first place is a debate for another time.
This debate has been going on since at least the mid-1990s. I recall in about 1996 having a conversation about it with my family after the Israeli Government traded about a dozen Palestinian prisoners for a couple of Israelis. We reached the conclusion then that it happened so often that it probably was a deliberate insult, implying Palestinians are indeed seen as lesser people.