Flatten one road after another? Isreal has already tried that tactic -WALLS, bulldosers, missile strikes, Jenin, Ramallah all flattened, shooting children, journalists, foreign protestors, detaining without charge, expelling people . . . . . It's all been done. But has it worked? No, because an occupied and oppressed people will always resist. More destruction will not solve anything. It will just continue to radicalise Palestinians and barbarise Israelis.

Fascism needs three preconditions: an intolerable environment that begs for scapegoatintg and simplistic nationalist solutions a demagoguic charismatic leader who can exploit the situation a brutalized right leaning electorate who have given up on decency and liberal democracy Israel now has the first and the third --luckily the leadership of the right (Bibi, the thug lieberman and the midgets of the religious nationalist camp) are incapable of inspiring the no nothing masses and even if they came to power would mess things up in so transparent a manner that their tenure would be short lived. maybe there is a god!

And what about the people of Sderot? Is somebody in Israel realy care for this great place with its great people. Will the kassam rocketing Stop? Also this must be a condition . Peter Sachs Amsterdam

More surprising animals there use internet and connected to YNet!

The behavior of the terrorist organizations has two implications for the law applying to prisoners taken in Arab-Israeli conflicts. On the one hand, the organizations themselves illegally defy the laws of war by depriving Israeli POWs of their protected rights such as the right to contact Red Cross representatives and communicate with their families. On the other hand, the terrorists are not entitled to the protected status of POWs, and are subject to prosecution as war criminals. Indeed, these organizations fall under the definition of terrorist groups under such instruments as the International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings, and Israel – like other states – is legally obliged to take a variety of steps to foil the terrorists’ activities and bring them to justice. More at : http://xrl.us/kj6sj

Barghouti's release has been a hot issue among Isaeli politicians for years, as if Hamas would necesarily want to to see the young and charismatic Fateh leader released! But in trade for the "bargaining chip," seems unlikely to me. Bus should they buy into see a stregnthene Fateh to their advantage and go along with the trade, then Israel should include Pollard as part of the swaq. Bush is more anxious than Hamas to see barghouti save his Road Map from collapse. Use the Barghouti trade to free the US Prisonser of Zion Pollard from his nearly quater-century imprisonment!

Quoting the PM, "Freeing ALL terrorists is best for Israel. We're tired of fighting child-murdering psychopaths and their ilk. Once they're all free to return to their homes and wives and children, we can have a true peace. I know, Kuntar gave me his word. And I looked into his soul and know he's a new man. An educated man (thanks to us) and a family man (again thanks to us). We must break away from this good-Israeli bad-terrorist reality. Can't we all just get along?" The PM was ushered out of the room by his bodyguards and lawyers.

Freeing savage, serial child killer Kuntar, Barghouti, and other cruel murderers is evil. Pro-Islam TERROR Enabler Israeli Leaders endanger ALL innocents. How dare evil men give live terrorists in exchange for dead bodies? And totally devoid of ALL conscience, provide the terrorists with a huge army of freed prisoners to rejoin global jihad against Israel`s innocents. No one trusts the word of terrorists who claim they don`t know where the victims are, or that the victims are already dead. Ron Arad, Shalit, other POW/MIAs, Dana Bennet, Pollard, and the 12 Iranian Jews imprisoned in Iran arrested in the 1990s trying to escape from Iran MUST BE RETURNED! Stop their suffering! If you are kidnapped, the government does not care if the terrorists kill you-they will eagerly give many live terrorists in exchange for your murdered body. PREVENT future kidnappings and murders of innocents! Only ONE prisoner without BLOOD on his hands for ONE LIVE Israeli captive.

I must say though, it would be very, very nice to visit Tel Aviv where Robert lives! LONG LIVE ISRAEL !

Or be buried with the hatchet. All the talk of murderers being released in trade fails to account that both of your peoples are both the murderers and the victims. Your two cultures have perfected the art of simultaneously being perpetrator and victim. It is murder when a Palestinian kills an Israeli, and it is murder when an Israeli kills a Palestinian. You are, after all, at war, are you not? And if you are at war, as many Israeli voices proclaim from the rooftops, then the Palestinians are not criminals, they are prisoners of war, and so is Gilad Shalit. And if Palestinians are murderers for killing Israelis, then Israelis are murderers for killing Palestinians. You do not get to selectively wear the victim hat in the court of world opinion anymore. This is a step that the entire world has been waiting for, over the last 60 years. We hope it works out, for both your peoples.