As of this recording, more hostages in the Middle East are being released on both sides. Hamas is releasing 50 civilian hostages, many of them children and the elderly, in exchange for 150 known jailed terrorists. What we saw from a Sky News reporter this past week was absurdity at its worst.
"I was talking to a hostage negotiator this morning," asks host Kay Burley. "He made the comparison between the 50 hostages that Hamas has promised to release, as opposed to the 150 prisoners that are Palestinians that Israel has released. And he made the comparison between the numbers and the fact that 'Does Israel not think that Palestinian lives are not valued as highly as Israeli lives?'"
Government spokesperson Eylon Levy raises his eyebrows in shock.
It doesn't take a diplomat, a college Professor, or a President to understand common sense. If you are giving away three for every one you get, if those three you are giving up are known terrorists who want to kill your people and destroy your country, and if the people you get in exchange are innocent women and children who survived slaughter, rape, and abuse by your opponent to become hostages, then there is nothing even about this exchange.
It is disheartening to hear and see so many in the United States and around the world justifying what happened on October 7.
