News and RL have a way of overwhelming a blog. So many issues, so little patience.
I’d lust like to draw your attention to Israel’s latest attempt to prove the hypothesis that repeating an experiment without changing any variables will not create different results. By this I mean that the release of prisoners to attempt to garner ‘favor’ with corrupt and weak regimes.
Israel’s agreement (yet again) to free terrorists to attempt to garner favor with the PLO (PA) pulls another brick out from under Israel’s already beleaguered judicial system. To put it in a perspective Americans might understand, it’s as if Bush pardoned and repatriated known Al Qeda affiliates caught in America in an attempt to shore up relations with Iran. (Yes, I know they’re Shi’ah and Saudi Arabia would be a better analogy, but our relations with Saudi Arabia are already too good.)
Freeing yet another batch of criminals back into their society puts into question the very legitimacy of the sentences originally meted out. What’s the point of having a strong judiciary if the “Executive” branch pulls the rug out from under it on a regular basis?
