Comments on: Ahmed Jabari and the prisoner dilemma

By: Jenny Ehrlich

Jenny Ehrlich — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 14:55:22 +0000

Jonny. Yiour writing is so so clear,, wow, to read and understand.. Sheyeyeh lanusheket soon so this can progress ..

By: Jonathan Zausmer

Jonathan Zausmer — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 09:27:04 +0000

Gary, this is an important article. Your insight is relevant, however I would like to expand: one of the problems with Israeli policy for at least the last decade or more is that we send mixed messages to our enemies without clear lines of engagement. So the prisons become a training school for terror, a place where one can watch TV and get an education because that is convenient for the prison authority while we preach zero tolerance on the ground outside its walls. We twist the arm of the international community to isolate Hamas (the quartet has stood solidly behind Israel on this), while we make a deal behind their backs and free 1000 terrorists because for us the release of one is important. We make an unwritten deal that there will be no more kidnappings on their side and no more targeted assassinations by us, but we now have breached that because it seems right under the barrage of rocket fire.
On the level of diplomacy it is exactly the same: we tell the Abbas government to respect non-violence and follow the roadmap, and yet Israel breaches the roadmap and continues on a wild settlement spree.
You have ground rules for an agreement at Annapolis that was still in process and a new government comes in and wipes that all away. If we continually change the goal posts whether it is on terror or on diplomacy, we cannot expect any progress at all.

By: Mike Perloff

Mike Perloff — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 19:36:40 +0000

WHICH PART IS STUPID; that Israelis provide a safe and less stressful environment for vicious murderers of innocent men, women, and children who are targeted simply because they are Jews: or perhaps the greater stupidity and insanity is the institutionalization of terrorism against Jews simply because they are Jews and the Arab allocation of resources that should instead be used to improve the lot of their people? Or is it that most Arab political and religious leaders are callous manipulating pigs who would rather poison the minds of those they rule to advance the Jihad against Israel rather than advance the living standards of their own people? It's clearly a three way tie!!

Attempting to defend those loathsome dogs with their genocidal ethnic cleansing of Jews and Arab religious apartheid is a blasphemous act for any decent human being of faith.

By: Alex Salomon

Alex Salomon — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 18:02:38 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEFMEEkne8k how Arabs treat Arabs.

By: Georgina Yael Johnson

Georgina Yael Johnson — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 17:52:10 +0000

A lot of interesting points here. Perhaps that is why we moved so shamelessly into a shoot to kill policy as opposed to actually giving the guy a trial and administering a death sentence according to universally accepted standards. The question that bothers me, is "where does it stop" who decides which of our enemies gets a sudden death sentence and which can stay alive? Stalin, for example, could never work that one out.

By: Ravi Singh

Ravi Singh — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 11:55:02 +0000

SIMPLY STUPID….