1/4 Many will presume that with this hostage deal, Israel is getting off easy: it will hand over "only" minor and female terrorists from its prisons. Nothing could be further from the truth. The same misconception was rampant in 2011.
2/4 In the Shalit Deal, Ahlam Tamimi, the first female admitted to the ranks of Hamas terrorists, was in the list of 1,027 terrorists freed by Israel. The Jordanian woman was the chief orchestrator of the 2001 @Sbarro massacre in which 16 innocents perished.
3/4 Of the 16, eight were children. One was my 15 year old daughter Malki. Israel had sentenced Tamimi to multiple life terms; the 3-person judicial panel explicitly urged that she never be freed in any future prisoner swap. They were ignored by the politicians.
4/4 Tamimi, freed in the 2011 Shalt deal, has myriad platforms for inciting fresh terror against Israel. A celebrity in Jordan and the wider Arab world, she's also an @FBIMostWanted fugitive.
If you imagine #Hamas is not exploiting Israel, think again.
cc @ShelleyGspan
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