You have got major problems if you consider murderers of innocent children as heroes.

and 6 Arab=Israelis will be land-mines for within Israel. guess i salute Israel today, because NO OTHER countries in the world will accept walking Land Mines back into the country. Israel did what USA, UK, Europe and Asia countries will NEVER do.

How can any human being of any nationality equate murderers to heroes? Such sick indoctrination.

Some of these "heroes" of yours are convicted of murdering children. Why are you so proud of them? Is this your Palestinian culture, to sing and dance when child murderers are considered heroes?

B"H - Life sentence in Israel from now on is meaningless,

B"H The President, using and abusing his power to pardon, with the support of the executive, knocks out the judiciary of the State. No sentencing has any meaning any more in Israel.

Here's what really happened: Hamas had just called back some 1027 of it "ambassadors" to Israel. Unbeknown to Hamas these "ambassadors", at first, are happy to go back home to their families, until they realize that they were extracted from the beatiful lives they were leading in their "embassy' in Israel. As their host, Israel supplied them with 3 hot meals daily, library, telephones, television, gym, books, newspapers, legal advisors, medical and dental care,and untold other benefits supplied only to v.i.p.'s. Now they will have to go back to their daily routines.But despite the fact that they will be accepted as heroes, eventually they will have to find jobs that match their talents. The problem is that they all are Hamas' "statesmen" and will want to return to the great living of "diplomatic" "convoys",and what is a better way to regain their "status", but repeating what brought them there in the first place? It is simply kill ,kill,and kill again more Israelis and Israel will grant you your Hamas "ambasssadorship" again. LONG LIVES ISRAEL'S STUPIDITY.

the government of Israel has gone mad, for one man they will punish an entire nation, will someone please remind the prime minister, what his hero brother died for. So animal's like the the one's that Israel is planning to release, would not go free. I'm shocked with Ehud Barak. Ehud why are spitting on the graves of all the terror victims? You are Israel's national hero, David of the jewish people. This isn't a measured deal. Israel was born on blood and tough decision making.

Another talkbacker says the death sentence should be imposed on the murderers of the Fogel family. I agree. I also think that there are very few people in Israel who disagree. How would the Palestinians look at the death sentence for the Awads - the killers of the Fogel family? Will Palestinians scream and shout that the men who stuck a knife into a 3-month-old baby are simply "heroes"? We Israelis don't think so. Should the new cry of civilized people be "Death to the Awads. Death to terrorists." ? We see how civilized the Palestinians are when they dance and sing to celebrate the release of mass murderers. It especially raises questions about Palestinian "culture" when several of those being released are women mass murderers and an attempted suicide bomber (whose target was a hospital).