OPINION:
How is it that Hamas terrorists — who, absent provocation, invaded Israel on Oct. 7, indiscriminately killing women, infants and small children — have now suddenly become “compassionate” enough to release hostages (“Netanyahu pressured from all sides amid mass protests, strained relations with Biden White House,” web, March 31)?
The case against exchange is that during each day of any cease-fire, Hamas will regroup, resupply, reorganize and plan anew to kill more hated Jews. Thus, when the pause is over, additional murders will resume, this time in greater number than the count of hostages whose release will look good on the evening news.
It takes an extremely principled leader to decline such an offer, for doing so would likely result in losing public support and office. If Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accepts it, he will have decided that holding on to power is more important than stamping out the cancer that is Hamas. These terrorists fight and kill not for the good of their people but for their own crippled ideology. Their actions do not lie.
H. LEE LAPOLE
Loveland, Ohio
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