(Israel Hayom) Nadav Shragai - Recent past experience teaches us that terrorists who were released in previous prisoner exchange deals returned to terrorist activity. The first intifada, in which 154 Israelis were murdered, was fueled by the release of the captives in the "Jibril deal" in 1985. The thousands of terrorists released in deals between 1993-1999 perpetrated terrorist attacks during the second intifada in which 1,178 Israelis were murdered and thousands were injured. Dozens of those released in the "Tanenbaum deal" in 2004 murdered over 40 Israelis. Those released under the Gilad Shalit deal in 2011 planned hundreds of attacks in which over a hundred Israelis were murdered, many years before Oct. 7. As part of that deal, future Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was allowed to go to Gaza where he planned and carried out the Oct. 7 massacre. Moreover, a significant part of the death sown in Israel by released murderers was caused by those who were deported abroad, where they could not be rearrested. Every deal made in the past spilled more fuel on the bonfire of terror and contributed its share to the next attack. In fact, it almost invited these acts.
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