[Mars]

How is it Isreal was willing to exchange 5 fighters and 500 dead bodies for two dead bodies? It seems... odd to me.

Even excluding the living, 500 bodies for 2 doesn't even stack up... and lets face it, five people who are alive and kicking are worth any number of dead people.

[Blue Lion]

Because Israel is crazy

<runs away before this gets ugly>

<Will be back though>

<crazy>

[NGTM-1R]

I think it makes an eloquent statement about the relative value the sides place on their people.

[Uchuujinsan]

or the relative value of the price each side can pay.
Hard to pay with 500 dead bodies if you killed less than 500, isnt it? :/

This is not about real value - its about market value

[Kosh]

How is it Isreal was willing to exchange 5 fighters and 500 dead bodies for two dead bodies? It seems... odd to me.

Even excluding the living, 500 bodies for 2 doesn't even stack up... and lets face it, five people who are alive and kicking are worth any number of dead people.

What that means is that 2 live Israelis is worth 5 live and 500 dead Palestinians. Or it just means that Israelis value their lives more than the others. Depends on how you look at it.

[Polpolion]

I think it makes an eloquent statement about the relative value the sides place on their people.

I agree. 

[captain-custard]

its called politics ... which will never make sense....

[Blue Lion]

A lot of people like to say that it shows how much Israel places value on their people etc.... which is probably true.

But remember Hezbolla got 5 people for essentially nothing.

Israel just gave them 5 more "militants" so they could look good.

It's a politics/image move that in a few weeks will be forgotten. Those 5 guys could do some serious damage in a few weeks.

[Nuclear1]

It was more of a religious thing than political. The Israeli families of those two soldiers want to bury them, a grace which Hezbollah certainly wouldn't have given them were it not for releasing those militants.

I've got issues with both sides, honestly.  Israel used absolutely excessive force two years ago, leading to even higher popularity for the disgusting savages and Islamofascists that make up Hezbollah.

[karajorma]

I think they're trying to beat the high irony bonus they got when they finally succeeded in getting rid of Arafat only to end up with Hamas in charge.


It will take some doing of course.

[Janos]

Islamofascists

fffffffff

[BlackDove]

The Israelis have secret abilities that can be stolen if you examine their dead, so they traded so many dead and alive Hezbollah to get their secrets back.

Obviously.

Yes. That's what happened.

[peterv]

It was more of a religious thing than political. The Israeli families of those two soldiers want to bury them, a grace which Hezbollah certainly wouldn't have given them were it not for releasing those militants.

I've got issues with both sides, honestly.  Israel used absolutely excessive force two years ago, leading to even higher popularity for the disgusting savages and Islamofascists that make up Hezbollah.

All families in every religion wants to bury their dead.

[Nuclear1]

How many give up five live prisoners to bury two though?

[Mars]

It's like I said, one living person is worth an infinite number of stiffs.

[peterv]

How many give up five live prisoners to bury two though?

That is not a decision taken by families. I believe that it is a matter far beyond what we think as persons. It has to do whith what our goverments and muslim leaders wants us to think as masses.

[Grizzly]

How many give up five live prisoners to bury two though?

That is not a decision taken by families. I believe that it is a matter far beyond what we think as persons. It has to do whith what our goverments and muslim leaders wants us to think as masses.

In other words: Propaganda?

[Scuddie]

Not propaganda.  It goes much deeper than that.

This is the work of the Illuminati.

[Mefustae]

This is the work of the Illuminati.

Fool. The Illuminati are merely puppets in a far greater game, or have they gotten to you, too?

[peterv]

You can call it propaganda or Illuminati or whatever you like. Moreover, you can speak ironicaly about it, that makes the ones who makes profit out off it very happy. "The greatest trick off the devil was convincing people that he does not exist", is that cool enough? And it is also very bitter.