What kind of "morals" requires Mashaal to keep a soldier alive, but allows him to stand by silently (more likely actively particpate in) the killing of Israeli civilians through suicide bombings and clumsily aimed missiles? What "morals" requires the release of those terrorists on whose hands the blood of these civilians lay, who sit in Israeli prisons? What kind of ethics allows beheading of hostages, like in Iraq, by other "Islamic" movements? Here's the answer. The "morals" of Islamic "resistence" movements are flexible. It all depends on what their objective is. Those standing from the outside have enough experience with their "morals" to realize that what's really going down is that Mashaal realizes that his life, and Hanieyeh's, are on the line if Cpl Shilat loses his. These are pronouncements made to ensure his their own personal survival. Not more, not less. And certainly not "moral".

TYPICAL TERRORIST TALKING ! YOU BETTER FREEEE GILAD NOOOOW !!!! ISRAEL SHALL NOT PULL OUT TOO SOON ! FREEEE GILAD NOOOOW !!!!!!!!

as your president Katsav did... Not to sell his house for a very large amount of money as Olmert did... Not to take 1 million $ to fund the election campin as Sharon did... Not to smuggle cocaine as your science minister did...

one prisoner who doesn't have blood on their hands, that is. that's fair.

An inherent contradiction in terms

So Mashaal says - he fights - or sends other people to fight - for the sake of identity. Not to help his people - who are suffering because of his stubbornness. Not to actually destroy Israel - which he acknowledges he can't do. He's just fighting to fight - as a statement. Now when he dies and faces the Judge of Judges, he can explain why all those dead children - both Israeli and Palestinian - and all those ruined lives. What the Palestinian people themselves want is irrelevant to him. If they might want some peace and economic survival, that's irrelevant. Now when he dies and faces the Judge of Judges he has a good answer - he was just doing it because it feels good.

Since when a soldier kidnapped by rats is a war prisioner? Israel could take Hanyeh's sister then...she is cozying living in Israeli territory. Why should Israel have morals to those who don't understand this meaning?

This is Israel's first war which it is determined to lose. The Arab's know this and are emboldened . Israel no longer scares them with Olmert's empty threats. The political leadership is more worried about harming nonexistant ,worthless world opinion which will always support the Palestinian's against Israel. No matter how inhumane and barbaric the jihadist prove to be against Jewish victims ,they are always portrayed as poor victims of Israel's Jews all around the world. The sinister politician continues to bring disaster upon disaster to israel. His blindness to what Gaza's retreat has done reveals he is under the oinfluence of evil satanic forces and his end will be much worse than ex-P.M. Sharon's end.

I am not Jewish or Arab. I had been a bystander in this whole tragedy of "Palestinian Statehood" and I hoped that one day the Palestinians could get their own country side by side with Israel. But since the intafadah began I have uterly lost any respect for Palestinians as a nation. They choose terrible leaders and support terrible policies. They glorify terrible murderers who celebrate in killing Israeli women and children. I am sad to say to you Palistinians, I have no sympathy for you. Hardly anyone I know respects you- even my Muslim friends in Australia are embarressed by you. While you continue to support and glorify your murderous leaders, I don't think you will ever have the respect of the world. Please dump these terrible people like Mashaal and follow people who can lead you with dignity. Then maybe us neutral people will respect you. Remember people like Ghandi and Martin Luther King achieved their goals far quicker, using peaceful methods than you have been able to do with your suicide bombings, rockets and other terrorist activities. So until you do choose a new tactic and new positive leaders, expect the world not to blink an eye or shed a tear while you slowly follow your suicidal course. Us neutral people really don't respect you at all anymore. Cherio, Stan P.S. Remember - if you are going to shoot your rockets from in the midst of women and children, you have only yourself to blame if women and children get struck by Israeli missiles.

Let's look at what the pali 'leadership DOES do: They use little boys and girls as human kevlar to protect terrorists They try to keep the girls vigins so the terrorists have the needed escort when they are killed They siphon off BILIONS of dollars of pali aid money into swiss bank accounts They maintain their mansions in algeria They send their wives to paris with their kids, buy mansions there so that their families can live in splendour and high finance while they subject the palis to misery and misfortune pali morals? a total contradiction in terms

He won the Nobel Peace prize, and when it came to peace, noone, ever was a better negotiator. He was a master manipulator of the three prongs of islamic scruples - Lies propganda and terror. He promised peace and Israel let him into the country - then he ara- farted in thier face. He was offered over 90% of what he said he wanted at Camp David and he Ara-farted again. He was given autonomy of (undeserved) pali land and of course, he ara-farted. Hamass was given gaza and what do they do?? They ara-fart.. I know it is asking a lot of Olmert, or any civilized person, but if you don't wish to be ara-farted again, you must adopt arab scruples and fight like arabs.

How can you people get any more stupid? Its unreal Have you ever noticed the suits Haneya wheres thats your food medical aid and more, and then there is Arafat rated in Fortune 500 as one of the richest man on earth, there a job i wont never worked a day in his life, You the Palestinians let your leaders steal from you and blame Israel for not feeding you giving you jobs your sick all of you.

Since when has this Pig called Mashaal ever had Morals..In the name of "Allah";this individual is supposed to be a Leader,and he is openly admitting to Kidnapping an Idf Soldier,and also he has the Hutzpah to say he is a "Prisoner of war"..Then the Retaliations of the IDF are Legal .We're at war with the Palestinians,and they should be grateful to Israel that the Idf are not using,the war power that they should be using. When will the Palestinians finally realise that the Hamas is destroying their last hope to ever have the Peace they long for..No state can come thru without scratch,if they are being led by a terrorist government. And where is the BIG "UN" ??The Human rights watch,?Why are they not putting pressure on the Hamas to stop those rockets being fired into Israel??Such damn hypocrites,So now the next time Mashaal wants to talk about Morals,,,Let him adress his electors with this garbage..

You have no Idea what Mashaal does in his spare time do you?Maybe,he's gay??and all that money we send your leaders,,where has it gone??huh,Into their pockets of course.and mashaal does not need the millions of$$$$$$$;For his MOCK elections...Like all terror states,he threatens with reprocutions if you do not vote for him..He sways you with "so called Med Aid,"education,if you can call teaching children to becomeMartyres, education.He does worse than smuggling cocaine,he smuggles and deals in weapons and Bomb belts,in order to Butcher,innocent Israeli civiliens..I can go on for hours,in showing you who your "GREAT Mashaal is..But really he is not worth the Time on this site..;and if i am writing,its because you Palestinians,Never seem to listen,when peolpe try to help you..So if you really want to remain in the snake pit you are in,Carry on doing what you are doing at present..;and don't come crying when the SH;;T finally hits the fan.

Under the geneva convention the red cross/crescent must have acesss to Shalit - since they have not his argument doesn't add up. And if Shalit was a POW then the Hamas leadership in jail would be POW as well. And if this is war, who is Israel at war with, with Syria? WIth the Qassam brigades headquartered in Damascus? Lets apply som 'international conventions and law' on Syria's case...

wanne bet how many Arabs sleep with kids under the age of 15 or less? the arab world is sick when It comes to sex. a women cannot walk normal without wearing a burka. i know two Arab men who said in my face that they don't like the Israeli law because women can dress what they want and they are not allowed to hit they women no more!!! I was shocked by there answers! 90% of drugsdeals all over the world are Arabs, comes from Lebanon, afghanistan etc etc. Selling women as whore are Arabs. the loverboy's in europe are 90% arabs and go and viit the prisons there, 90% muslims. the 2 girls 9 and 11 in begium raped and murderd was an Arab! want some more my friend?

Muslim world, then destruction should follow it.

i can't help feeling khaled is so sexy, how can i fancy my enemy?

-What is your agenda in a Jewish site. -Why do you speak to us with a jerky superior tone? -I asked you once and will repeat the question untill you answer ,or untill you will be ridiculazided as the unclever simpleton brainwashed christian missionary you are. QUESTIONS: -Do you believe we Jews killed Jesus? -Do you believe only those Jews who recognize Jesus will survive and the others will burn in the hell? -Are you here to try to trigger an armagedon in order to haste your believes? -Or do you feel you are a Jew and desire to convert to our faith? I see my questions as very fair questions,since you are here spewing the c**p you desire to us,and so we have the right to know WHO is talking to us. There are people in Israel,in US and even here in Brasil ,that wear like ortodox Jews,build houses as Jewish temples,act like Jews but they are nothing else then HIDEN THIEFS,trying to "capture"Jewish Souls to Jesus. And there others,apparently your types,who do not hiden theirs christian belifs,but still want to destroy Jews who do not accept you jesus. Answer me these questions OBJECTIVELY. I am sure all of us want to undestand why a goy is OBSESSIVELY insisting in be here in our midst if HE IS NOT ONE OF OUR OWNS!

I think you have just written the most moronic, childish reply I have ever read on this board.

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what you are doing is religious bigotry Israel is NOT JUST a country for jewish peoples, it is a country with islamic and christian citizens as well, and those of us citizens who are not jewish have just as much right to debate in ynet as anyone else...this is just looking at it from a practical viewpoint, without letting religion dictate the argument...I, as a secular christian (atheist really), as well as Israeli citizen, have just as much right to post here as any orthodox jew does I know I am not the poster you were referring to in your post, and I am not sure what he would say, but I can tell you that I am offended by so many inferences on this site that if a person is not jewish he is somehow inferior and unwelcome on this site

Normally I abhor the ideals of Marcel of Florida. However, for teh record, Ms Sao Paulo, the web site of Ynetnews is not a "jewish site" - but the site of a newspaper. It is not confessional, denominational, etc - it is a newspaper. Go read about the freedom of the press, freedom of speech, and then go and make 'aliya to your beautiful Israel, where you can become a woman pilot and go kill the people you don't like. Marcel does spew c**p - but then you also spew a fair amount of murderous racist c**p, so my feeling is that you do not have the right to criticise him. Furthermore, calling Marcel a "goy" is demeaning. There is a perfectly good English word, "gentile" which does not have the racist and sneering overtones of the word "goy". In my humble opinion, also, you are "not one of our owns".

May G-d thwart the every evil behavior and plan of Mashaal, and all who would carry out his evil orders and desires. Yet may G-d have mercy on His eternal soul.

The Israeli media actually reports news. This is how you know about those things. How about your beloved idol Yasser Arafat. At least Israeli ministers don't steal large amount of money (estimated at around 1 billion US). Arafat was giving his wife a very large allowance to live in a foreign country so he could sleep with young men.

I am not saying anybody is inferior or superior. I want to understand a point of view. If you are offended is your problem and lack of understanding,sorry.

Firstly we have the familiar false equivalence, whereby in this case an abducted soldier is equated to detained terrorists. Secondly, we have the bizarre logic that Israel is to blame for Gilad Shalit having been abducted and not freed. Thirdly, we have the astonishing notion that terrorism is necessary to create a "balance of power" - on this basis Canada should be perpetrating terrorist attacks on the USA because the latter is militarily more powerful. Only in the crazy world of "Palestine" does no common sense exist at all.

Go to a shrink