Israel traded 52 terrorists for Ron Arad's personal weapon

What the heck were they thinking? I'll have an answer to that at the end.A report in Yedioth Aharonoth on Thursday (Israel's largest circulation Hebrew daily newspaper and owner of the YNet web site) says that in 2000, Israel traded 52 'Palestinian' terrorists in exchange for Ron Arad's weapon and personal effects. Arad was an IAF navigator who was shot down over Lebanon in 1986. A report in