What a country can do when its citizens were held hostage and asked for the release of captured terrorist in return of citizen? What if it is a crisis that involves flight highjack in to the hostile terrain? We (India) our self faced this problem in Kandahar. We bucked to terrorists demand. But there is an adventurous episode by Israel in similar stance in the past way beck in 1976. The operation against terrorist, famously know as Operation entebbe.Isreal, in this operation shown to the world that how small country can be it can never negotiate with national pride.It was French airline with Israelis and foreigner onboard hijacked by terrorist in to Uganda. Plane was grounded in entebbe - Uganda and terrorists demanded the release of terrorists who were captured and held in some of the European countries. To add to the worry Uganda state head Adi Ameen was supporting terrorists in their adventure. When entire world was helpless after knowing this hostile situation, Isreal planned for an operation to rescue its citizen.
Visit this link to know more about operation entebbe: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Entebbe
But what India did in Kandahar? Of course we made a decision to save our citizens but negotiate with the security of the nation. We need tolearn a lot from Israel, a country that got terrorism as a gift from the day of its birth.
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