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From the letter: "it's always easier being a Monday-morning quarterback than truly viewing a conflict through the eyes of the people attacked first."

"Swaps of captives resume after brief protest by Hamas," read the top headline in Sunday's Washington Post.

Israelis agreed to a bad deal for a good reason.The post Trading terrorists for hostages appeared first on JNS.org.

The day is March 9, 1973. Two generals rejoiced over news they deemed as the “grand prize”. The generals are Ariel Sharon and Moshe Dayan, who was then defense minister. Tales at the time said Dayan wanted to make sure himself and when he did, he ordered that sweets be handed out to the soldiers involved. Yes, the corpse was that of the “Guevara of Gaza”, who was released from prison years earlier with a greater determination to fight the occupiers.

More important than the Al-Aqsa Flood operation is the situation that will prevail after the war on Gaza ends. What will the situation be like on the present and future of Gaza, the West Bank, Israel and the region? Retaliation for the Flood with a new Nakba will only fuel instability. Tackling the Flood with the two-state solution will return the Palestinian file to its people and allow the diseased Middle East to catch its breath.