Dr Anjuli Pandavar is a British writer and social critic. She was born into a Muslim family in apartheid South Africa, where she left Islam in 1979. Anjuli is preparing to convert to Judaism.
She is one of the staunchest defenders of Israel and a [constructive] critic of the Jewish state when she believes it is warranted. She owns and writes on Murtadd to Human , where she may be contacted. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is said to be planning to offer anyone who is currently holding any of the 101 Israeli hostages still held in Gaza five million dollars for each hostage they release.
Officials are supposedly working on publishing the official offer on various platforms in order to convince those holding the hostages to release them, promising that in return they will receive five million dollars for each hostage, as well as freedom of passage for the purpose of exile to a third country. ( Arutz7 ) There are several dimensions to this offer that are unlikely to be discussed in the public domain. 1.
The first pertains to securing the freedom of the people held captive for over a year. Ordinarily, I would agree with those who say that paying for hostages encourages the taking of hostages, except that the people held by Hamas are not necessarily hostages. They are, according to Islam , which is the way Hamas sees them, the spoils of war —a chapter in the Qur’an even bears that title—and their captors may do any of the following with them (Muslim apologists will claim th.
