is a criminal act.Ideally he deserves nothing other than more years in jail,rather than make money out of witheld information. The family needs closure,they are entitled to closure and the state needs to provide it.

to the Halabi family, I hope you find closure whatever the outcome. I hope that the outcome is like that of Gilad Shalit and he is alive. If he is not, my sincere condolences. g-d keep you and protect you and your family.

Israel is willing to release hundreds of known murderers & terrorists for the remains of Jewish soldiers but when it comes to an Arab soldier defending our country they have issues releasing 2 Jewish prisoners for the remains!!!

He's serving 2 life sentences already. What "more years in prison" are you thinking of? Is that some strange upside down Australian logic? Crack him like an egg in a PA jail. He'll talk.

as long as necessary. Not by surrendering.

The criminal Mordechai Moshe is right: if Israel is willing to pay a high price for the Leftist Shalit, she should also pay for the Zionist Halabi. The hundreds of thousands of shekels that Moshe demands dwarfs the cost of the Shalit deal. And if it turns out the remains are not Halabi, there is no problem arresting Moshe again.

Why does israel show horrible negotiation abilities time after time? They can just throw these murderers into solitary confinement, no TV and flickering light and negotiate their moving back into a regular cell?

Jailed murder criminals know where a body is... another demands extortion money... and this government is willing to pay him off and set them free to find out where the body is? Simply breathtakingly shocking for the incompetance and stupidity of such a consideration. In the US they would have been told: "Take us to the body or your execution is tomorrow".

criminals? Making deals with them? Pardoning criminals and/or paying them off for information while they are serving their sentences in prison? Something is ROTTEN in Israel!