Hamas wants to free all the convicted Palestinian war criminals. Many of these are convicted mass murderers. Why is the Left silent? Why do they support the release of war criminals?

Israel must never again ransom a captive. We can rescue them, as we did at distant Uganda. We can pound our enemies till they free our captives. We can execute "Palestinian" inmates till our captives are free. We can cut off all food, water and electricity to our enemies till our captives are freed. There are many ways Israel can obtain freedom for captives. But we must never again play by the rules of the terrorists.

Finding Gaza will be no problem at all One more abductee, Cast Lead Two in on the way

Next time eradicate the Hamas leadership!

According to Olmert it was because of Barak the war against Hamas was not finished, and in this one case I believe in Olmert. They could easily have blocked the Philadelphi Corridor, I never heard that they searched for Shalit very actively. And what has the "defence" minister done so the new fattened-up terrorists let loose in Judea/Samaria does not immediately attack the Jews living there? - something that would have made Barak immensely happy.

The monster thinks that by making you agree that one Jew = 1000 monsters, they would be _getting_ 1000 monsters with every exchange! They didn't realize that beginning with your agreement they made you make, each Jew they take means that the lives of 1000 monsters will be taken! Of course, if they don't try to take any Jews, they don't have to worry about it ... but we have seen that doing evil is something monsters can never resist. Remember, Israel. One Jew is 1000 of the monsters. Keep your word, until there are no more monsters left.

Help them to keep the prisons empty: no live prisoners, and dead penalty.

While their people bear the brunt of the war Hamas starts.

This statement by Hamas should not come as a surprise by any thinking rationale individual. Israel has shown its' willingness to release prisoners. Why should Hamas NOT do what works. It is great that talkbackers speak of all kinds of things that SHOULD be done. Until the day that kidnapping doesn't work, there will be more kidnappings. ( and yes, I realize what I am saying) I said this is dangerous for soldiers the day it took place, Hamas is only validating what I and others said.

One would think Israels leaders would react to these inflammatory remarks..do something. Yet quiet. All of Israel is now being held hostage by Hez/Hams, and their affiliates. Talk of intimidation and extortion. Hamas intimidates..then, extorts Israel. All Israeli Jews areconsidered fair game..definge as Zionist soldiers. Israel does have choices, but seems to not know wht to do? A terrorist who commits murder or accomplices same..given capital punishment. That clears the jails...and costs less to maintain . If a captive taken across into Gaza...the IDF should chase, or bombine with tanks, artillery,drones and F15Is. In other words, make Hamasa eat their words, literally. BTW, targeted assinations are NOT a substitute for good old fashioned hangmans nooses, the 12.00 kind. To Israel: wake up.

but those weak kneed politicians who were intimidated by the media to go against the wisdom of the elders of Israel. Do not ransome hostages. Media and Barak corrupted our laws forbidding ransomes for deliberate acts of hostage taking.

Don't take terrorists alive. If you must deal with Hamas, offer their dead bodies in exchange for live kidnapped IDF soldiers. If the IDF soldiers are not alive, raise the price you'll pay for your soldiers' bodies -- go and kill more terrorists so you can give them more corpses.

lazy dogs and wait for more Jews to die, take action to stop the next kidnapping. Save the Jews, don't worry about what the fools in the world think.

You give in to terror, they're gonna do it again. I'm glad for Shalit, but now the entire country is going to be on fire because of these dogs!

Feed them what Gilad was being fed. Also, cut down excercise, it makes the prisoners to be in better shape physically. They should NOT get out in better physical condition than Gilad Shalit

Neutralized by Israel's missile shield trying for hostages is all Hamas has left.

"Head of Hamas' military wing Ahmed Jabari said Saturday that Hamas will continue to abduct Israeli soldiers." When do the assassinations begin? Or are you waiting for another abduction so that Minister of Blunders Barak can ...do nothing. Please dont wait too long, my daughter is in the IDF.

John, are you in Anchorage? I would like to meet you.

Terror is a special circumstance. Time to use it against these barbarians.

Israel should bring NEW LAW Imm that any abduction of Israelis soldiers or civilians, Israel will bomb all the stracture of water & electricity at the same time. Let see how they will survive without water & electricity

Hamas is vowing that it'll do its absolute best to ensure that the Gaza Strip remains under blockade and its inhabitants suffer the consequences. THREE CHEERS FOR ISRAEL!!!

It is only natural that they would announce more kidnappings. In the first place they are terrorists, and secondly Israel has encouraged them. With the "catch and release" policy where one person is equal to over one thousand of course they want the ones that were captured back.

I read in another article on Ynet or Jpost I can't remember which one but Noam Shalit said in the article to take what Hamas says with a grain of salt because according to the Shalit family all Gilad was allowed was newspaper cuttings and a radio and he was just given a diet of pita bread and hummus. I'm sure Gilad would have told his father the truth about what happened and Hamas is just trying to make themselves look not so bad. "The way Shalit looked when he was released proved that he was treated well said Al-Qaisi". Is this Hamas guy retarded? Shalit looked like he had come from a concentration camp! "Shalit was provided food that "fits him as a Jew". Well considering that Hamas doesn't think much of us Jews we can assume that they just gave him the minimum amount of food that Gilad needed. The thing is people around the world read what Hamas say and actually believe it!

1. Hamas did an EXCELLENT job of reading psychology & culture of Israelis, and playing the card they held to the hilt. Great poker players. 2. It's a game two can play. On average, Palestinian families are not Taliban-nikkim. They do want their sons back from Israeli prison in one piece. 3. Given #2, it is possible to act as follows: sentence terrorists to death, THEN SUSPEND THE SENTENCE. When Hamas succeeds in its next kidnapping, start executing the condemned terrorists IN PUBLIC.... one per day.

... then Israel needs a David to come join them and help them stand up to their enemies (and, Biblically, to God's enemies).

Yes, I'm in Anchorage. Do you go to the Lubavitch center?