Have you heard of Bring Gilad Home? It's a movement dedicated to bringing Gilad Shalit home - social activism using nothing but freedom of expression and the internet. Beginning Monday, July 28, 2008, they organize massive, daily, email efforts to flood the inboxes of the Israeli government demanding that Gilad be brought home. Check out their facebook group (Bring Gilad Home) or blog (bringgiladhome.blogspot.com) - there's a Hebrew version there as well. Contact them at bringgiladhome@gmail.com

until Gilad is set free alive., and if he is not there should be no food for gaza until they all succumb to starvation

Seems to me: Israel has taught terrorists that you don't have to send live Israeli prisners back to Israel to get what you want from Israel as a terrrorist desirng something from Israel

are insane. You are being held hostage by the very people that you support.. You sit silently as your being bombed, you are silent when your people are returned to you dead.. You are silent bla bla bla... And you suply all there electricity and fuel.. Un effin believable. Give your heads a shake, and demand that this leadership regime is kicked out the door..(hopefully to jail). You people have been trained to be sheep.. I'm loosing respect for Israel by the hour..

when we would have taken appropriate hostages, i.e. Al-Zahar, and made THEM beg for a trade.

Couldn't he, like, get some plastic surgery or something?

Serious questions that must be addressed before such exchanges are considered. The prisoner exchanges harms Israeli deterrence, creates an appalling precedent that encourages further kidnappings, increases the possibility that our captured soldiers will be mistreated or even murdered in custody, and rewards imprisoned terrorists by releasing them early to claim new victims. While the return of the soldiers, regardless of their condition, fulfills an important central value of Israeli society – that the State of Israel will do its utmost to recover soldiers behind enemy lines – nonetheless, it poses serious questions that must be addressed before such exchanges are considered in the future. More at : http://xrl.us/kj6sj

mount a full scale military mission into gaza to try and find shalit and bring him home to israel. a no holds barred effort. make the price too high for the pals to continue holding him--then they will release him.