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Amit Segal on Israel’s 60-Year-Old Prisoner Dilemma

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JL;DR SUMMARY Amit Segal discusses Israel's complicated history with negotiating hostage releases, tracing back to the 1968 hijacking of an El Al airplane. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski.

  • At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself.
  • This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude.
  • Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from.
  • But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me.
  • And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.
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DemocracyPrisoner SwapTerrorismIsraeli PoliticsPublic OpinionSecurityHostage NegotiationsEthicsAmit Segal

Places mentioned

Israel
"Title: Amit Segal on Israel’s 60-Year-Old Prisoner Dilemma"
Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv District, Israel
"And it's interesting because Israel has actually fostered it. In 1972, our current prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, was injured as a commando fighter breaking into a hijacked plane, a Sabena plane in Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv."
Entebbe, Kalangala, Uganda
"Three years later, four years later, in 1976, Netanyahu's brother, Yoni, was killed in the Entebbe operation."
Tennessee, United States
"Barricade situation is something like, I don't know, someone gets into a bank branch in Tennessee, taking five hostages and demanding, I don't know, a helicopter and $2 million in cash."
Algeria
"The precedent was set regarding an El Al airplane hijacked for Algeria, I think."
Greece
"It was their Air France plane from Greece."
Delaware, United States
"For instance, not to release terrorists with blood on their hands. You took my innocent people."

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