I feel sorry for the Shalit family. Does Hamas feel sorry for the 450 Palestinian families ? NO. Hamas continually proves to me and the poor people of Gaza as well as those in the West Bank that they are nothing. Martyrs for the cause. Secondly you have Hamas politico and Hamas militant and even they cannot work together to make the deal.

So Hamas' demands that all of the prisoners be moved to one holding facility do they think Israel is stupid and will allow them to be together for a planned jail break? They need to be as separate as possible

"Hassan Yusuf, a senior Hamas official in the West Bank" ,... hamas in the West Bank? Isn't the "West Bank (meaning, Judah and Samaria) supposed to be the site of the "moderate" Abbas's peaceful forthcoming palestinian state? So what is Hamas doing there, holding a knife to his throat? Looks like another gazastan in the works. Pay attention, United Nothing!

I'll say it again - Israel should immediately impose the exact same conditions on all Hamas and Islamic Jihad prisoners that Hams imposes on Shalit. If Fatah complains, then impose it on them as well. This means: -total isolation 24/7 -solitary confinement 24/7 -no visitors or any communications ever -a mattress, a 40 watt bulb, and a bucket in the corner that gets changed once/week -basic meals That's it. Time to tell the 450 families that they no longer have visiting priveleges, their prisoners no longer get college degrees, exercise time, prayer time, tv time, group meetings, etc etc. Bibi do it now. Put the Palestinian prisoners in the dark!

Israeli's come and Give and the Terrorists/arabs Take Take and Take Some More, They Say One thing And Do Another? Lier's, Murder's, Cheats and They Kill Their Own Everyday and The e.u., u.n. and the arab league Say Bupkis, The Silence Is Deafing Concerning this so-called arab spring, We the arabs kill eachother on the streets, in our mosques and Its ok were arabs, Yea Right your subhuman Charletines You Wouldn't Know The Truth If It Smacked you in the face. Baruch Hashem

It's time to call in Jimmy Carter and have him deliver the message to Hamas that if Gilad is not immediately released then the money that his buddies funnel to Gaza will be stopped along with the food, fuel and medical aid. Moreover, to accommodate Tom Friedman & his ilk a US class action suit should be launched against every international organization that has offices in the US and supports Hamas.