• dan1101@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    As part of that offer Hamas also wanted all Palestinian prisoners released, so that makes a deal a lot less likely.

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      1 year ago

      Seems pretty fair to me. Innocent people’s lives are factually worth more than guilty lives by any Western judicial system.

      A moral government would do this immediately. Ukraine and Russia do it all the time, too.

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        1 year ago

        Ukraine and Russia release all their prisoners in exchange for hostages all the time?

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          1 year ago

          They do prisoner exchanges. Little different.

          Also Russia has held hostage many kidnapped children and Ukraine has negotiated their release.

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            1 year ago

            Ok but POW exchanges are a little different. Here we’re talking about thousands of prisoners that might be unjustly incarcerated but could also be rapists, terrorists etc… So to exchange some kids taken hostage from a music festival for those…