Professor Ada Yonath, who received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry last week, wasted no time in using her new fame to air her political views. In an interview aired Saturday on the Army Radio station (Galei Tzahal) she opined that Israel should release all the terrorists that are incarcerated in its jails.
"We need to think of ways that [sic] people will not have motivation to go and kill and be killed,” Yonath said. “It is is not just a political matter. These people are people who usually do not have a horizon, they have no hope, they have no reason to want to live and therefore they do not care that others will not live, and at the same time maybe they will also go to heaven and receive some rewards. This does not happen to people who have options for life, who have a life in which they at least have the possibility of hope. We can change that.”
"We need to think of ways that [sic] people will not have motivation to go and kill and be killed,” Yonath said. “It is is not just a political matter. These people are people who usually do not have a horizon, they have no hope, they have no reason to want to live and therefore they do not care that others will not live, and at the same time maybe they will also go to heaven and receive some rewards. This does not happen to people who have options for life, who have a life in which they at least have the possibility of hope. We can change that.”