Q&A - Hostage Swaps From an Halachic Perspective - Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz

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uh this is a huge huge problem uh indeed I have I have you know Shor man have to go for several hours so we we don't have time to to cover everything right now uh as you correctly note this is not the first time we faced this problem we had this issue with gilad Shalit although galit quite literally a thousand terrorists were released in exchange for him was a th to one here Kamas is very generous uh all they require is three for one right for for the 50 they get 150 I'm sure they'll nominated this is maybe not even a joke they'll be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for their humanitarian gesture in releasing their 50 hostages um you know I actually think that may happen but okay uh but anyway uh so the Shila always is this the Shila always is on one hand pigeon Shan ransoming captives a great MIT you even sell a saer Torah for Pigeon you sell a show you do whatever you can P saving people whose lives are endangered every single second so of course your initial reaction might be we have to do whatever we can to save these lives but the problem is by releasing terrorists back into either our population like in galit or back to Kamas or whatever it would be what you're doing is you're creating dangers for other Jews the galad Shalit case itself we already know that at least one

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1. 0:00uh this is a huge huge problem uh indeed I have I have you know Shor…
2. 0:31is maybe not even a joke they'll be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for their…
3. 1:34of the terrorists who was released in that deal was very instrumental in planning the October…
4. 2:04people right so this is a huge mlus it's actually based on a mish in gon…
5. 3:05P we have to look at the people who are presently in danger because they're in…
6. 3:37giving into ranom so it's a hugus and all I can tell you is that contemporary…
7. 4:41cannot do that so it is a big it is a huge huge mlus now I…
8. 5:11galat chalit the problem was you're releasing these thousand people and there's no active war going…
9. 6:11their child is a captive what do you tell them or their or their parents or…
10. 6:42through um when they found uh the body of I think it was an 8-year-old a…

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