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Source: https://www.israelhayom.com/opinions/israel-signed-a-vulnerable-deal-from-a-position-of-strength/
Israel Signed a Vulnerable Deal from a Position of Strength
(Israel Hayom) Amb. Freddy Eytan - Israel is one of the few countries in the world that uses all means to free its nationals, that it never abandons a comrade on the battlefield, alive or dead. Unfortunately, we pay a heavy and painful price each time because we are dealing with bloodthirsty terrorists, barbaric Islamists who couldn't care less about international laws and treaties on prisoners of war. Fortunately, we have managed to completely change the geopolitical situation in the region: Hizbullah and Hamas have lost the war and have been considerably weakened, their leaders have been eliminated. Of course, we cannot eradicate the religious ideology and fanaticism of the Islamists, but on the military and strategic level, the victory is clear and the IDF once again becomes the most powerful army in the Middle East. The writer, a researcher at the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs, is a former Foreign Ministry senior adviser who was Israel's first ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Mauritania.