Dumb As A Doorknob

These two successive paragraphs from a story about Israel's attacking Beirut airport.

"You don't negotiate with terror organisations," Gideon Meir, senior Israeli Foreign Ministry official, told Reuters.

In 2004, Hizbollah traded a kidnapped Israeli businessman and the bodies of three soldiers for more than 420 Arab prisoners in a deal with Israel brokered by Germany.

Why do politicians think everyone is stupid? They don't think some out here can read history?

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