anilmcThis is not at all to minimise the obvious suffering for those taken hostage and those who love them, or to whatabout the crime of taking them in the first place. It is to give vital causal and proportional context and to challenge the terminology of Palestinians taking Israeli civilians as "kidnapping" if the word used for Palestinians held for noncrimes or no charge is "arrest" or "sentenced".
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