Three-fifths is the most notorious fraction in American history. For purposes of apportionment, the U.S. Constitution’s Three-fifths Compromise counted “other persons” — namely black slaves — as equal to 60 percent of non-slaves, who were overwhelmingly white, along with free blacks. The notion that blacks in bondage were, essentially, worth 40 percent off compared to whites is one of the more notorious aspects of America’s original sin: slavery. 

Lost in all of this is the fact that the 3/5 Compromise was designed to reduce the overall population count of Southern states in each census. Tallying slaves as 5/5 human in decennial reapportionment would have given Dixie even more seats in the U.S. House of Representatives. The 3/5 Compromise weakened the slave-owning states’ political power. Alas, this reality has been shoved down the memory hole — good and hard.
Still, the 3/5 Compromise has nothing on Hamas’ 1/30 Compromise. This morally repugnant facet of the recent deal between Israel and its Jew-hating tormentors dictates that, instead of one hostage being liberated in exchange for one Palestinian terrorist released from Israeli captivity, each male hostage that these bloodthirsty kidnappers free unleashes 30 Palestinian killers! Even worse, every liberated female hostage prompts Israel to give 50 murderous anti-Semites their walking papers. If these savages eschew careers in commercial real estate and, instead, resume jihad, Israel can do little about it.
No one can blame Israel for wanting its people back.
But how dare Hamas believe that an Israeli life is worth one-thirtieth or one-fiftieth of a Palestinian life? In other words, relative to Palestinians, Hamas is trading Jewish men at a 96.7 percent discount and Jewish women at 98 percent off. Next to this, the slave-owning South’s “40 percent off for blacks” formula seems comparatively dignified.
Also, like Palestinian water torture, Hamas drips out two or three hostages every few days. Release the goddamn hos...