Sorry to spoil the party, but there’s one aspect of this week’s Middle East peace deal which is pure madness.

As part of the US-brokered ceasefire in Gaza, Israel is set to free 250 Palestinian terrorists serving lengthy prison sentences for murder and other serious offenses. Many of them have boasted of their crimes and said they would happily carry them out again. (Up to 1,700 Hamas fighters captured during the current war are also set to be freed, but may be worth releasing if this deal brings an end to the war.)

This kind of terrible deal-making will surely only encourage the future kidnapping of other innocent people by terrorists in order to secure the release of other murderers

Israelis can be brilliant at many things. But sometimes they get it very wrong. From the outset, it has

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