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100 Palestinian prisoners complete academic studies in jail
Ronny Shaked
Published: 04.08.09, 10:01
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1. Why?
Sarah B ,   New York City, USA   (08.04.09)
Time to stop the featherbedding of wanted terrorists. Hot water? Television? Canteen budget? Medical and dental care on demand? Library privileges? Family visits? Who are we kidding? Do you think that such benevolent treatment of terrorists will cause them to change their minds about Israel and the Jewish people? It won't. They just laugh at us a little harder. Prison is supposed to rehabilitate. You cannot rehabilitate terrorists -- in which case punishment is the better course.
2. seriously??!!
zoe ,   jerusalem   (08.04.09)
Come on, decent medical care, letter rights, family visits and even hot water I can somehow understand. It's not like it would say anything good about us to lower ourselves to Hamas standards. But university education???!!!??? That's just direspecting ourselves.
3. #1 Why?
Israeli   (08.04.09)
Because we are the guilty, and we know it.
4. Stop all those benefits now , immediately
Charles ,   Petach Tikva   (08.04.09)
and this untill Gilad Shalit's unharmd release . We have a nice behaviour ? we are'nt criticised by amnesty international ? so what do we earn with this ?
5. What about Gilad Shalit?
Jew ,   Israel   (08.04.09)
Boy, are we Jews a stupid People!!!
6. Future will tell if was good or bad.
Dr D ,   Jerusalem   (08.04.09)
While the majority of Palestinians around the world with a university degree are peaceful people ,some are (or was) our worst enemies . It will take more then few generations to narrow the gap between Israeli and Palestinian culture and civilization. Gilad definitely worth more then all the Palestinians in Israeli prisons but our government is doing the right thing. We are irreversibly few centuries ahead.
7. JOKE
carol ,   eilat   (08.04.09)
CHECK OUT THE PRISONERS IN ARIZONA.MAYER DECIDED TO TREAT PRISONERS LIKE THERE IN PRISON NO BENEFITS THEY SLEEP IN TENTS .PRISONERS ARE IN PRISON FOR CRIMES NOT ON VACATION OFCOARSE TAX PAYERS ARE PAYING FOR THE EDUCATION OF PRISONERS
8. Diploma
Avraham ,   Israel   (08.04.09)
Are we insane? As long as Gilad "rots" in captivity. Nothing, absolutely nothing should be given to the Palstintian prisoners other than the bare necessities of life. Why are we doing this? Are we trying to prove a point? If we are, then in is falling of deaf ears. Nobody cares. Other governments are only concerned about the number of bricks in East Jerusalem. France is a beautiful country, but with a growing Moslem population it always tries to appease its Moslems and is afraid to speak out against Gilad's captivity (or captivity conditions). The same goes for other countries in the EU.
9. Guess these aren't the ones sending sperm to their wives,...
Yossi ,   Levittown, US   (08.04.09)
10. BA Degrees...
Bruria ,   Haifa   (08.04.09)
What makes this so disgusting is that there are Holocaust survivors in this country who can barely exist, young people who can't afford a university education and people in general who are sleeping on the streets. This is why there will never be peace, we show ourselves to be spineless. What a joke.
11. SO NOW THEY WILL BE SUICIDE BOMBERS WITH DEGREES?
Genuine Tosefta ,   Tveria   (08.04.09)
12. #3
Arabyia   (08.04.09)
we finally screwed you up too, good to know, one more tiny piece of the world is ours, don't care that you have none
13. "Be ye doers of the Word and not hearers only, deceiving
Rivkah   (08.04.09)
your own selves." "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." The Jewish jailors pass. The Hamas jailers do not. Which is better, to do the will of the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob or not to do His will? The Jewish jailors will win eventually since the Lord is well pleased with them and their efforts that surpass the Hamas jailors so profoundly that there is no comparison.
14. Supreme Court and Dudu Katz
Ricardo Macher ,   KarneiShomron-Israel   (08.04.09)
They are to blame for all this nonsense, they are self haters that think just about looking nice in the eyes of Europe and the rest. They just forget that Jews tried that in 1930 in Germany, do you need me to tell you what happened to them? We must stop this nonsense, not because of Gilad Shalit, but in the name of decency!
15. #1 Why?
(08.04.09)
They do it just to annoy you Sarah. And it appears to be working, too! Grin!
16. Education... fine. Diploma's? No!
(08.04.09)
17. I want to go to the Israeli prison, do I have to kill a Jew?
Ray Briht ,   USA   (08.05.09)
Your prisons sound so nice. I am not particularly violent, nor overly antisemitic, however you jails sound so good, that I feel tempted to join Hamas, or Fatah. It appears that while Pals are getting educated in Israeli jails, Jews are getting stupider under the influence of political correctness.
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