"For The Sake of God and the Homeland"

In Israel, jubilation over the return of a young man who has been kept in isolated incarceration for five years after having been abducted on the border of Israel and Gaza. Gilad Shalit represents something precious for Israel; one of their own, an Israeli, and for his parents a child who could not be left to languish any longer or their hearts would break. With his release, other parents' hearts will be certain to break in the future.

For his release came at the cost of releasing back into active and violent 'resistance' hundreds of Palestinians for whom the opportunity to once again wreak atrocities upon Israel and its citizens presents as a godsend. Inshallah, they whisper, they will return to resisting the occupation. The occupation is there because of that 'resistance'. It is called by the Palestinians resistance, and it is named by the Israelis, what it truly represents, violent, vicious terrorism.

The worst of the released murderers are being accepted by Syria, Turkey and Qatar, where they are prepared to ostensibly live in exile, but in reality will move, at the earliest opportunity, back to Gaza or the West Bank where they will be enabled to plan and mount further atrocities. For they are imbued with resilient, resistant, self-renewing, deadly hatred. Nursed carefully by the Palestinian Authority.

Who celebrate as homecoming heroes a motley crew of Palestinian resistance fighters who have successfully slaughtered young, old, innocent civilian Israelis. Because they are Jews. And because Jews have taken the land that Islam gave to Arabs. Palestinian Arabs. Not the original Palestinians who were indeed Jews; one must make that distinction.

Here are the Palestinians passionately celebrating their victory engineered by Hamas whose horribly mendacious mandate is the destruction of the State of Israel, and extending to the extinguishing of Jews throughout the world. Their roster of recently-released heroes:

Walid Anajas 31 - 36 life sentences for the murder of 11 civilians in Jerusalem, injuries to 54 as a suicide bomber, March 9, 2002;
Nasir al-Nasser, 34 - 29 life sentences for murdering 30 civilians, wounding 140 in bombing of the Park Hotel during Passover Seder, March 2002;
Khamis Aqel, 45 - 21 life sentences for being a member of the Qassam Brigades which carried out a series of bombings and other attacks;
Majdi Amr, 32 - 19 life sentences; Maedh Sharakh, 31 - 19 life sentences; Fadi al-Jaaba, 29 - 18 life sentences; jailed for their part in killing 17 and injuring 53 during the bombing of a Haifa bus in 2003;
Mus'ab Ismail al-Hashlimun, 29 - 17 life sentences for dispatching two suicide bombers to a twin bus bombing in Beersheba killing 16 civilians, injuring 100 in 2004;
Tamimi Ahlam, 31 - 16 life sentences for driving a suicide bomber to the Sharro pizza in Jerusalem, killing 15 people, wounding 130 in 2011;
Abd Ghanim, 22 - 16 life sentences for hijacking an Israeli bus, driving it off a cliff in Jerusalem, killing 16 passengers in 1989;
Muhammad Attayah, 42 - 16 life sentences; member of the Hamas armed wing carried out attacks.

"We thank God for your return and your safety," Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said, greeting the prisoners. "You are freedom fighters and holy warriors for the sake of God and the homeland."