A deal with Hamas means Israelis deserve the truth

(Israel Hayom via JNS) — The deal to bring the hostages home from Gaza carries an immense, largely unspoken price — one that has received far too little attention, if any at all.

While some may support it and others oppose it, there exists a third path: acknowledging that this is a poor deal, albeit perhaps unavoidable, while simultaneously shattering the walls of media silence surrounding its dire consequences.

These walls bear an unsettling resemblance to the conspiracy of silence that prevailed before the 2011 Gilad Shalit deal (in which more than 1,000 terrorists, including the now-decease...