Shimon Peres: Israel Won the Moral Victory

Shimon Peres claimed that Israel was the winner of the caskets-for-terrorists deal (which the Leftist Israeli media insists on terming a "prisoner exchange" in a Kafka-esque twist):

"There are victory celebrations in Lebanon. They are stepping out with drums and dances to greet Kuntar the murderer who crushed the skull of four-year-old Einat with his gun and shot her father cold-bloodedly."

No mention that his "moderate peace partner," Mahmoud Abbas, shared in the celebration.

"Where is the supreme moral victory and where is the human defeat is? In greeting a cowardly murderer unlike any other, or in the remembrance candles commemorating our loved ones?

"The answer is clear. Lebanon will be ashamed, the kind of shame it needs to properly exist."

That last sentence was a bit cryptic, like the moral compass of Israel's Left. In any case, "shame" seems to be a bit slow in coming, because Hisballah's leader Nasrallah is now the most admired leader throughout the Arab World.

Peres does not understand that there is no shame to Muslims in jihad, and that is what their war against Israel and the West is.

Morality in the struggle against the Nazis was defined as victory.
Morality in the struggle against the jihad is defined as victory.

Morality by a nation's leadership is defined as protecting the interests of the people, starting with their security. Unfortunately Olmert himself announced in 2005: "We are tired of defeating our enemies."