i feel bad for the whole shalit family. but the price will explode in our face and will have a butterfly effect the world over........ it's a no win

Unfortunately our modern society has been groomed to political correctness and the one hour solution which is at the expense of truth and society.... I believe shortly G-d will intervene as is laid out in the written tanach Psalms 83 & ezekiel 36 thru 40

Enough BS..just go in and get him and don't worry about any Pal toes you step on. Turn the place upside down until you find him!

Released terrorists have sacrificed their lives to kill Jews. As much as we all love to see Shalit freed, an exchange will never be a fair deal. What the Israeli government can do effectively is to turn the screw on the Palestinian leader. First, they can deny freedom of movement to Abbas and Haniyeh. If that is not sufficient, deny the Palis services. Up the ante until Shalit is released. The present Isreali leadership is allowing the Palis to believe they have the upper hand when in fact they do not!

I agree: The poor guy was on military duty. The State has to do everything in order to get him out of the bloody hands of Hamas but the price is too high! Criminals and terrorists must stay in jail. Israel should be CLEAR when dealing with Arabs and Western (or Egyptian) mediators in the Middle East issue: NO WAY TO GIVE UP UNITED JERUSALEM, NO WAY TO GIVE UP LARGE JEWISH CITIES AND VILLAGES IN THE WEST BANK., NO TO PALESTINIAN MIGRANTS (so called refugees) COMING BACK IN ORDER TO DESTROY THE JEWISH STATE. THE JORDAN VALLEY MUST STAY UNDER ISRAELI CONTROL for security reasons. STATE ENEMIES, including those Arab-Israelis who work openly against the State, must be punished by the Law. SAY NO to a deal with thoes who want to destroy Israel.

Quote ISREAL LEADERS ARE STUPIED AS THEY COME Rephrase that.... A politcaly correct one hour solution people will Get the leaders they vote in... Stupid or not..... The Torah predicts this kind of thing would happen.....the people need to return to the written torah with G-d as thier backbone

I am sure Olmert is very disapointed that hamas have asked him to release Bargouti, murderers, bomb makers and hubdreds of other terrorists. Accept this deal today and there will be many more Gilad Shalits tommorow everytime the palestians want something they know all they need to do is kidnap an Israeli and they can demand anything they like. The only way to stop future kidnapings is to find another way of deaing with this situataion not by releasing murderers. Bargouti a murderer himself is also a master ant politcal manipulation and he is loved by the west, Israels dominant left and the palestian street he has the popularity of Arafat but the brains Arafat never had Israel is going to find itself giving alot more than anybody ever considered in the past. The murderers does anybody seriously belive they are going to go into retirment and become the next Ghandis? Will the bomb makers stop making bombs and get into the firework display business? This deal will result in the murder of more Israeli civilians, more kidnapings and bad politcal deals for Israel. We know that all Olmert does is go from one blunder to another but if he accepts this deal then it will be one of the biggest yet and he will damage national security even more than he allready has done. We all want Gilad Shalit back but this isnt the way to do it

it shows weakness. Put pressure on the strip, cut electric, fuel, food supply. Then, when the masses rebel , only then negotiate a fair exchange. You can not nagotiate a fair deal from a under dog position. Unfortunately, the Pali understand only the power of the sword. We have to speak their "language".

and keep them as long as Shalit is kept . If Shalit is killed, the hostage/hostages too must be killed . To hell with the garbage humanitarians! Tell me who in the world wants 1500 killers running around ? It will only be the first instalment Who is Israel frightened of ,to carry this out . UNO Shmuno?The Hague Tribunal? Are you crazy to release hundreds of terros for Shalit? Pirates were cleared from the high seas in 1700 by drastic measures . Releasing Pirates wasnt an option.They were caught and hanged at sea. I tell you if any person were killed by released Terros , the family should sue the Government for negligence in their duty of care! This nonsense is for releasing all those Hezbshatan for 3 corpses and a crook. You got a War in North and Shalit Problem.!Do a deal and you will have more .As an outsider,of course with no responsibilities like Israel Citizens , I am devastated by watching such a mess .In fact I am getting fed up with the whole scene . You are becoming a Banana Republic .No wonder Arabs think they are onto a winning bet.

See if they can do anything except pass resolutions AGAINST Israel (whom they CLAIM are inhumane)...instead, force the UN to do something against those that ARE inhumane using human beings as "currency" to release killers.

for all those that call for the destruction of gaza to get this solder back, know that it's been tried and FAILED. you think Israel didn’t try anything since he was captured?? i suppose they can try again, but i'm betting on them failing again, so is Olmert, otherwise he would be in Gaza now. You have to hand it to hamas, the Israeli government is certainly in a pickle. I also cant believe some that are saying he’s dead move on. To those morons I say this, the prisoner exchange is to be done in stages, the first stage is for the solder to be handed to Egypt then Israel before release of any heavyweight pal prisoners. If Israel receives a dead man, how do you think they would react? One side shouts “Criminals” Murderers”, while the other side shouts “heroes” Best of luck to both sides! Peace

by the way .....it seems a lot of drunken (from hate , nationality or stupidity) people writing talkbacks here. ist not more like this: the exchange of shalit and the prisoners is just a small episode in a long chain of capturing and exchanges from both sides - so the question is: is olmert and the israeli gov. able and willing to get up to new horizonts and start to do steps for the future of this country and the area, or is he really the squareheaded nationalistic, rasistic, corrupt and dump puppet as wich he allways appears in the media?

food, gas, electricity etc in exchange for shalit seems workable- noone gets killed, politicians safe face - call it thumb screw, I'm all for it!

Ordinary people on this website can reciognise the dangers of doing a deal like this and that its all going to backfire and the result will be more Gilad Shalits kidnaped and more dead bodies when the terrorists get back to business. Olmert the PRIMEMINISTER who is supposed to be in charge of getting him back he doesnt recognise this instead he wants to send Israel is a nation of weak idiots who dont know a bad deal when they are offered one. Olmert should be telling Bush to put the squeeze on Abbas, threaten to punish Egypt if they dont get him back unconditionly if they know where he is so hamas can involve them in doing a trade then Egypt can help get him back unconditionaly. Close off Gaza along with Judea and Samaria to anybody trying to trade with the palestians turn it into a prison dont let anybody in or out cut of the electric its all conected to the Israeli grid. There are alot of options open to Olmert if the man thinks about it he doesnt have to act like a weak fool so he can look like the nice guy who wants to solve the problem diplomaticly ( releasing murderers ) Olmerts desire to have the rest of the world respect him, his weakness and idiocy is putting all Israelis at risk. Punish the palestians and behind the scenes let hamas release Shalit unconditionly .. a pessach gift to the Israeli people they can even give him a cheap suit .. if Ahmajinidad can do it why cant hamas?

It strikes me as odd how these arabs know that they can demand 100's of prisoners from Israel to release one or two Israelis, then on top of that say if these terms aren't accepted then the whole deal "may go up in flames." I bet they wouldn't be so cocky if the tables were turned and Israel said, "fine, were going to kill 200 of your terrorists..." IMHO arabs are like spoilt brats who need to be "taught" right from wrong occasionally.