It is foretold that in the Redemption, the Arabs will willingly give the land of Israel to the Jewish people because they will see clearly that it belongs to them. Perhaps this story of Arab leaders openly admiring the Jewish people is a marker along the way to true peace, based on the truth.
"This is a pillar of Israel's strength — to wage a war to free one man, to free a thousand prisoners for him," Salah al-Arouri, Hamas politburo
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| Released Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit walks down the stairs into his home in Mitzpe Hila, northern Israel, after over five years in captivity, Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2011. (AP Photo/ IDF) |
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Hamas leader praises Israel’s ‘strength’ in prisoner swap
High price paid for single soldier
Thursday, October 27, 2011
JERUSALEM — A senior Hamas official praised the “strength” Israelshowed in a prisoner exchange that swapped more than 1,000 Palestinian convicts for one captured Israeli soldier.“To do what Israel did shows the value Israeli society places on human life,” Salah al-Arouri, a member of the Islamist militant group’s politburo, said this week on Israel Radio from Damascus, Syria.“This is a pillar of Israel’s strength — to wage a war to free one man, to free a thousand prisoners for him,” he said, referring to the Jewish state’s efforts to free Staff Sgt. Gilad Schalit from his Hamas captors. “This is the strength of a society and an army.”The Hamas leader’s praise for the cohesiveness of Israeli society echoes sentiments heard elsewhere in the Arab world since Sgt. Schalit’s release:• Israel Channel Two television quoted columnist K. al-Ahmed, writing in the al-Qabas newspaper in Kuwait, as saying: “I wish I were Gilad Schalit; I wish my country cared so much about me.”
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JERUSALEM — A senior Hamas official praised the “strength” Israelshowed in a prisoner exchange that swapped more than 1,000 Palestinian convicts for one captured Israeli soldier.
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