Friday October 17, 2008

I've Been Thinking:

A Saudi newspaper named Ukaz reported on Thursday that Israel has totally accepted Hamas' demands in the hope that Gilad Shalit will be returned to Israel.

Shalit is the Israeli soldier who has been held by terrorists in Gaza for over two years, ever since his capture in a cross border attack into Israel during the summer of 2006.

The deal, as described in the paper, has two stages.
In the first stage Israel releases 450 Hamas prisoners.
In the second stage Israel releases another 550 prisoners.

The Israelis have completely denied this report.
But earlier this week there was talk that Israel would have to revamp their traditional prisoner release model and look seriously at releasing Hamas prisoners with blood on their hands.

Very little has been accomplished to save Shalit using third party discussions.
If the objective is to free Shalit a change of paradigm is needed.
But is it worth the price?

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