Lebanon

A Troubling Exchange

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Greg Doolittle
September 2008

Greg landed in Israel the day of an infamous prisoner swap. Israel has finally obtained the bodies of two dead soldiers—but at what cost? Greg picks apart this tragic and complex event.

The day before I left for Israel, I read a newspaper article about a possible prisoner-swap-in-the-making with Hezbollah. Two Israeli soldiers, Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev, had been held by Hezbollah in Lebanon for two years.



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