I don't understand why israel doesn't try to take top hamas leaders captive to trade for its prisoners. Will is needed. Sharon used to do this. Arabs respect this method. Musri, hanieyh and zohar to name a few would be a start. I would suggest one idea that hamas might go for. Offer them olmert for shalit. Hamas would be doing israel one big favour if they took him off of our hands. Israelis wouldn't have to pay his pension which makes them sick to the stomach.And Olmert may want to do it since he never did any combat. Try it. Both sides would love it.

make sure the Pali prisoners are returned the same way. Let's give as good as we get.

If we take the facts of the past 24 years into account we can safely say that whoever demands to free Gilad "at any price" is actually sentencing him to death. I hope that I am wrong, but the real meaning of "any price" is that there is no price. The terrorists understand that time is on their side. The more cruel that they are, the more that they conceal information and even if they G-d forbid murder their captive and bargain for his body - the price that they will exact from Israel will only rise. More at : http://xrl.us/bezn4r

Meanwhile the Int. Red Cross committee does nothing.