Who benefited the most from the prisoner exchange between Israel and Hezbollah?

Question

Why?

Answer 1

God the soul collector

Answer 2

the Families

Answer 3

Israel, they have higher standards.

Answer 4

Hezbollah got the Israelis to accept what they wanted..

Answer 5

Hezbollah - now they think they can negotiate with dead bodies... why keep prisoners if they can get what they want with dead prisoners.

Answer 6

It doesn't matter! On 1 hand you have 5 dead bodies! on the other you have 5 soon to be dead bodies! Whats the difference ?

Answer 7

Hezbollah benefitted most out of the exchange.

The only benefit that Israel has received from the swap is a watered down moral victory of "we-got-our-boy's-bodies-back-at-last".

Obviously it would be of some consolation to the families of the deceased, but at what cost? Hezbollah has two of its fighter's back as well as a Palestinian man "convicted" (I say convicted, but I tend to think that the Israeli justice system tends to be one-sided when it comes to Palestinian-Israeli issues) of mortar attacks. In the end, I think it shows that you CAN get away with it, which will eventually lead to more kidnappings.

In short, this was a tactical victory for Hezbollah and a very

strategically-lacking move on the part of the Israelis.