Thread by @GREENESJ333

Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "Clearly, something needs to be said again:

Exchanging Terrorists for Kidnapped Innocents
This week, again, Hamas has agreed to continue negotiations on release of Jews taken hostage by Hamas.
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The simple fact is that kidnapping and hostage taking is nothing new in the Muslim world. The practice goes back to the early days of Islam in Mecca and Yathrib (Medina), when Christians and Jews were taken hostage and forced to convert to Islam or killed.
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It was a practice essential to the slave trade in West Africa, where Muslim forces kidnapped and sold captives to Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, and English interests. A lot of other examples could be noted over the past 1,400 years.
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And today, ISIS, Hamas, Hezbollah, and various other Islamic groups continue the practice, believing that this is the key to get concessions—exchanges of prisoners being held for terrorism and murder—and leverage.
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So, how should the nations of the world respond to this kind of inhumane tactic? What can be done to end it or at least to discourage it?

(A) Refuse to negotiate with kidnappers and terrorists.
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(B) Isolate and penalize nations that tolerate, aid, encourage, or finance those who take hostages or try to make deals for them.
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(C) Take definite military action to destroy those who believe kidnapping, hostage taking, and making deals for hostages is a workable tactic, and end the pandering of terrorists and terrorist movements.
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(D) Understand that different cultures view the value of life differently and plan policy based on understanding those differences and how that makes policy more or less difficult to devise."
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