Olmert isn't "Setting free" anyone. This is a prisoner exchange. Abandoning Shalit to the Palestinians is cruel and disgusting. Tell me, WHO will be willing to send their sons to the army knowing the government will do nothing to get them back? What would you want if your family had been kidnapped? Olmert is, for once, making the right choice.

so what are we gaining if the piguim are carried out and planned regardless of who is in or out of jail. i say we swap shalit for barghouti, then setup barghouti to be killed by some infighting member of hamas.

It should've been all 3.5 million Palestinians of West Bank and Gaza who planed this major attack so that Israel can abduct all of them and foil their planning.

Could you sacrifice your own child for the greater cause, in Israel's case it's justice system, security & deterrent capabilities?

Forgive me for sounding callus and insensitive but.....Why would your government be considering a trade of multiple dangerous terrorist for your one or two captive / kidnapped solders? That makes no sense. These released terrorist could and probably will cause the loss of life of many of your citizens. Hamas could deliver the solders DEAD just to assert itself. Maybe then Olmert would fall on a sword, If you permit that kind of deal the rest of the world is going to laugh at your foolishness. When are you going to start seeking wisdom from God and trusting Him like you used to do a long time ago? This is a bad situation you seem to be in. And I don't think your leaders have the needed wisdom. Just my view, Godspeed to all who love Israel.

Did you think that up all by yourself. Abduct all Palestinians?! Did you go to school with these masterminded bombers?

It's a good thing the Palis want peace and a two state solution. Then they wont have to travel so far to detonate themselves.

that the terrorists didn't detonate the car bomb as planned, and that they were found and captured. Excellent job IDF.

there are only two choices !

these can be monitored on skypecasts also. many Pal's and associates are chatting on there making their plans b/c they think no one is checking it out to listen. Maybe the IDF ought to make sure they listen in on some of their plans on there....

Luckily I did not eat Chametz or who knows what may have happened. The Arabs who live in Israel and the ones who live Gaza are the same people. A blue document does not change this. Lieberman is the only politician to recognize this. Hundreds of lives were saved by this miracle. Todah

There should be NO motor vehicle traffic from Qalkilya into Israel for any reason. Let them take the bus or walk to their Taibeh concubines. Sever all Israel-Qalkilya economic links. It is crazy to allow PA residents to enter Israel for any reason, and especially not from this perennial hotbed of terrorism. Attacks from Qalkilya have been going on since the 1950s. The idiot leftist administrators of the "family reunification" program need to be replaced immediately; It should be under strictly military jurisdiction. The noose needs to be tightened around these bastards to keep them out of Israel. Higher wall, deeper moat, more gun towers. It also must mean the relocation of the entire ultra-violent Qalkilya enclave at least 10 km to the east (so no Qassams fired at Netanya from their apartment roofs). That will give the the EU something practical to spend their money on.

that is plain to see. And when does the kidnapping stop, when all jews are living on boats offshore from Tel Aviv. Olmert needs to resign as well as Peretz.

That Israel must accept the proposal "before any meeting is considered." , "First and foremost, Israel must recognize that peace requires that it end its continued and inhuman attacks against the Palestinian people," the Saudi statement read. Thwarting a terror attack " ...into Israel in a vehicle laden with about 100 kilograms of explosives " , is " inhuman attacks against the Palestinian people," the Saudi statement read.,

Someone's been praying... May this be the new routine.

What is plain to see is that you know nothing about what Israelis want. Don't dictate what our government should do from Canada. OUR children die and are captured in the army - why should we send them to die for a country that will abandone them if they are captured? YOU are misguided and quite sick, if you ask me.

National repentance pays big dividends!

Why can't Israel get back to pointed shooting of the terrorists? like shoot the prime-minister of PA? that'd be a fair hitback to hamas.

It is obvious the war is starting. The Arabs are escalating and literally trying to destroy and take over Israel any way they can. Diplomacy does not work, "Land for Peace" certainly did not work, limited military actions do not work, and temporary cease fires do not work. The Arabs do not want peace. They want no Jews left alive. All they do is kidnap, extort, and blow people up- even themselves. Perhaps it is high time the Amelech-Olmert, Peretz. Peres, & Livini are thrown out, along with the 5th column Pals in the governement, and let the IDF level the entire Gaza Strip and West Bank, retake it, and bulldoze it clear. Hashem cast Ishmael out into the desert, away from Israel, for a very good reason- he was a bad seed.

....That Israel CANNOT afford. KICK THEM OUT.

As reported: "Jabari (the terrorist) is particularly dissatisfied with the fact that he and his men are not being awarded the positions of power they believe they deserve." This is a society of murderers, kidnappers and extornionists! Yeah give them land...They certainly will prosper?!

MAN WHOES WAY TERROR, MAN WHO belongs to the armies of THE DEVIL. So, find who did it. and publish their photos as ENEMIES OF THE PEACE. love Atilla Karagözoğlu