Everybody’s Son: The Great Israel-Hamas Prisoner Swap
Submitted on October 23, 2011
By URI AVNERY - October 21-23, 2011
THE MOST sensible...sentence uttered this week sprang from the lips of a 5-year old boy...After the prisoner swap, one of those smart-aleck TV reporters asked him: “Why did we release 1027 Arabs for one Israeli soldier?” He expected, of course, the usual answer: because one Israeli is worth a thousand Arabs...The little boy replied: “Because we caught many of them and they caught only one.”
