This is a no win situation. But please remember that Gilad is alive!!!!!!!!

From the moment he went missing,Israel had lost the battle. You can still win the war. What happened to the feared Mossad? Half of Israel will despise him (Gilad) and his family. I wouldn't want to be in their shoes. Especially if he were released after the murder of my children/relatives. Follow the released murderers to the ends of the earth, and eliminate them one by one, or ten at a time. If they have been sentenced to death in Israel.Turn about is fair play. Put the intel people to work, send the proper "squads" on their way. You WILL know where they are sending these murderers, whats the problem? Or are you getting used to having your nose rubbed into the urine stained carpet? Israel is at a record low standard in defense of the nation. Let murderers go? what the hell!!!!!?

If you let 1000 prisoners with blood in their hands, what would they ask next 2000? Give me a break. Hamas needs to also make a deal in order to show their people that they did something, but to let them go through with this deal. Tell Hamas no deal and tell them instead of 1000, we will give you 1 person. This will obviously freeze the negotiations until Hamas is reasonable. I feel bad for the Schalits, but don't let the terrorists who killed women and children out of prison please.

going back to the 60's swaps were always uneven and painful. In those days, sharon and dayan routinely picked up arabs for exchange purposes, sheiks whoever was suspicious. Some times idf tried rescue attempts. Bibi was sloppy the first time around picking mofaz as chief of defense staff which was a mistake and botching the jordan hit on mashaal. Bibi wilts and is sloppy, but his heart is in the right place. That he picked mofaz is troublesome. Israel should make the deal, and then pick off the blood on hands terrorists one by one. Next time, if an idf is taken hostage, haniyeh and zohar should be taken right away unlike our gutless crook olmert who was yellow to the bone and cringed at taking hanieya. Also, the shalits should have time to heal with their son. None of their other sons, however, should be taken into the army period.

As I said this deal should only be done if the following things happen. 1)As soon as any terrorists are free we resume targeted assassinations immediately, that would keep them prisoners in their own homes . 2)Israel puts the death penalty it effect for any terrorist that threatens Jews and the state of Israel. This must stop where we put murderers back on the streets!!

Earlier today I blasted the Israeli media - Ynet included - for subtly promoting the deal by focusing on the Shalit family. Well, here we go again... The article pretends to focus on the bereaved families, but the accompanying photo is of the Shalit family with the tag "Tense Days for Noam and Aviva Shalit". Is it not a tense day for the bereaved families who fear the killers of their loved ones will be freed? For the families who lost their sons to capture these monsters? For the young soldiers on the borders who fear they will be the next captives because kidnapping pays?

was the bargain that allowed convicted murderers to go free and kill more Jews? Jonaton Pollard lives in deplorable conditions in a US prison and yet demanded that he not be traded for marwan bargoti, a terrorist murderer that killed five Jews. Shalit will be freed sooner or later, and you must ask yourself if Jews being murdered by released prisoners is the price to pay for immediate release of Shalit.

#1 IT IS NOT ABOUT A NO WIN DECISION. IT'S ABOUT THE RIGHT DECISION. DO NOT DO THE EXCHANGE. MANY JEWS WILL NEEDLESSLY DIE AS A RESULT. IT IS OBVIOUS NOT ROCKET SCIENCE

Nachshon Waxman was off duty when Hamas operatives kidnapped him in October 1994. They were demanding the release of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin and another 200 from Israeli prison. In the aftermath, 50,000 Israelis gathered at the Western Wall along with Waxman's parents, Esther and Yehuda, for a prayer vigil, countless others prayed at home. Waxman was killed, three days after his abduction, when an IDF rescue attempt went awry. An IDF elite unit officer, Captain Nir Poraz, the Sayeret Matkal team commander, and Sgt. Nahson Waxman were killed in this abortive rescue attempt. Mohammed Deif, the commander of the operation, is living free in Egypt.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChKt65AJGU0

If goldstone ruled in this matter, he would say it is an even trade as it lacks proportionality. If he was the AG back in 48, israel would have been destroyed as its asymmetrical moves would have been deemed illegal. Goldstone, Carter, Tutu, they are all the same arrogant in their self righteousness. Goldstone, the idf legal department reviewed your report and found most of it baseless.Without a doubt, the ICC will be reluctant to act on your facta as they lack substance to start with. You have endorsed hamas by ommission.Likewise hezbollah appreciates your work. However there is one problem in their and others' eyes- you are jewish and so according to them, a non believer and must be punished if you do not convert to islam. Allah akbar!

where do they get the right to speak in the manner they are speaking? this is NOT about bereavement it is about manipulation of bereavement and wow! these poltical operators sure have that down! Don't want any part of these people and their foul selfish plans! They lost their children and so now they think they have the right to decide for others whether or not they should have their own children! Sick sad unfortunates!

BRAVO to you for your logical post.

but at least he wasn't able to get a get.

...willing to fight to the last Israel soldier for his beliefs heard from!!! It is bad enough when Israelis say let him be tortured to death, but when a foreigner says it.... grrr....!