[Marxism] The Israel-Hizballah prisoner deal

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By Amal  Saad-Ghorayeb, Electronic Lebanon, 16 July 2008

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The  Israeli cabinet's decision to strike a
prisoner-exchange deal with the  Hizballah movement in
Lebanon -- on the eve of the anniversary of the  war
between the two sides of 12 July-14 August 2006 -- will
not be  remembered as one of Israel's most glorious
moments. Even its chief  architect, Prime Minister Ehud
Olmert, has referred to the deal in terms of  "sadness" and
"humiliation" while it has been staunchly opposed by  the
heads of Israel's internal-security agency (Shin Bet)  and
foreign-intelligence agency (Mossad), as well as by a
number of  Israeli politicians across the political
spectrum. Indeed, the exchange of  captives itself (or in
the case of two Israeli soldiers whose  seizure
precipitated the 2006 war, their remains), which is
planned to  occur by 16-17 July 2008 at latest, can be
described as a replay of what  Israel's own investigative
commission into that war regarded as a historic  defeat.
 
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