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Roberto Rachewsky
In defense of Liberty and Individual Rights - Writer and Speaker

Capitulation

Ismail Haniyeh and Yahya Sinwar, leaders of Hamas, killed by Israelis. Said Khatib, AFP

No. The ratio is not 1,300 terrorists, of whom 200 are cold-blooded murderers, for 33 hostages, of whom it is unknown how many are still alive.

The correct ratio is one terrorist for every victim of October 7th.

Why is this perspective relevant and not the other one?

Because in 2011, in a similar situation, Israel released 1,027 Palestinian terrorists in exchange for one Israeli, soldier Gilad Shalit.

Among those released was Yahya Sinwar, the main mastermind behind the October 7th massacre.

The Prime Minister at the time was Benjamin Netanyahu. He must have thought it was worth exchanging one Israeli life for the freedom of 1,027 Palestinians.

What he didn’t know was that what he was actually doing was exchanging the life of one Israeli for the lives of 1,300 Israelis, who were murdered 13 years later.

Politicians have a bad habit of not learning from their own mistakes. The question now is: who will be the next Yahya Sinwar, who, once released, will return to lead a new intifada from Gaza or Judea and Samaria?

We don’t know who the new Sinwar will be, but we already know who will release him, enabling another massacre to take place. It is the same person who once freed the real Yahya Sinwar, now dead in the war.

Israel could have won this war. By giving in to Hamas terrorists, it effectively signed its own surrender.

Yes, rescuing the hostages was an objective. But this objective should not have involved the surrender of the Israeli people. The price of this deal will come. It will be very high. Those who live will see.

If it were possible, the duo in the image would be celebrating Hamas’ victory through this agreement.

About the Author
Roberto Rachewsky was born in 1955, in Porto Alegre, southern Brazil. His great-grandparents came from Bessarabia (Moldova and Ukraine), fleeing the pogroms of Tsar Nicholas II. Belonging to a family of traders, Roberto is the owner of an international logistics company and is an active supporter of laisse-faire capitalism for which he co-founded several institutions to spread the ideas of freedom. He recently published the book "The Greek, the Friar and the Heroine", which deals with the philosophical connection between Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas and Ayn Rand.
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