"Shalit was captured"

Oh Yeah???

He was kidnapped!!!!!!

And Hamas keeps threatening to kidnap more Isarelis. So do Hizbukkah, youyr friends the "militants"

TERRORISTS, all of them

actually there should be 11000 Israelis in cages and they should call for the release of 11000 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails hundreds of them are children.

I'd love to see him STAY in his cage, a bit of a taste of what Palestinians go thru

12:28..Hizbukkah??? heck, lets dance some dabkah with that...

it is a shame when the Israeli demonstrate to free one soldier from Palestinians, at a time when they kidnapped thousands of Palestinians from their homes.the problem with Israel is that Palestinians are not considered Humans in their eyes or at least most of the Israelis.look at what the settlers are doing to the Palestinians destroying their orchards, and uprooting their olive trees,and cutting of water supplies to them.

The difference is that the Palestinians in Israeli jails have either murdered Israelis or are members of the terrorist organizations of Hamas and Islamic Jihad.

The corrupt Olmert government has the intelligence available to initiate a rescue mission to free Gilad Shalit. Unfortunately, Olmert and his cronies think it is more honorable to release thousands of Palestinian terrorists from Israeli jails, than to free Shalit in a military operation.

Where is the outrage from the international community?! If you substitute the word "Israel" with the name of any other Western country the whole world would be demanding the release of Gilad Shalit. Furthermore, no other democratic nation would tolerate such a regime as the Olmert-Livni-Barak combo. It is about time the power goes back into the hands of the people of Israel and not their corrupt government.

3.36 says.
The difference is that the Palestinians in Israeli jails have either murdered Israelis or are members of the terrorist organizations of Hamas and Islamic Jihad.

what a Joke .thousands of them did not even appear in court and yet you accuse them of being terrorists.

are the members of Parliament terrorists ?are the children terrorists? do you think that people believe these lies?the real terrorists and outlaws are the Jewish terrorist settlers, because their crimes is documented and yet they are free to harm the Palestinians when they wish to do so.

4:03 PM ET stated:
are the children terrorists? do you think that people believe these lies?

Well 4:03,the sad reality is that the Palestinian children, pregment women,elders educated to carry undiscriminated terror acts agint civilians.
It is very easy to find the eveidences.
I invite you to do some homework
Assuming that you care about children on the similar level as Israelies you will start recreting people to demand the end the terror indoctrination/
I wish you good luck on the vital humanitarian enetrprize
A few examples:

March 26,2004 – A 16-year old boy was sent by the Al Aksa Martyrs Brigades to blow himself up.He was caught by the IDF at a checkpoint

March 22,2004 – A 12-year old Palestinian boy was unknowingly given a bomb to smuggle across a roadblock. The plan was to detonate the bomb once the boy reached the checkpoint, essentially making the boy a suicide bomber without his even knowing.

March 16,2004 – Militants gave an 11-year old boy explosives to smuggle into Israel.The boy was caught at a roadblock

March 7, 2003 – Palestinian terrorists used children as “human shields” in a fight at el-Bureij.

February 26,2004 – Three boys aged 13,14,16 were caught on their way to perpetrate a shooting attack in Afula.

February 12,2003–A group of four boys were hired to cross from the Palestinian side of Rafah to the Egyptian side as part of an attempt to smuggle weapons to Israel from Egypt.

January 11, 2004 – A 17 year old high school student blew himself up near IDF troops in Jinsafut. Fatah’s Al Aksa Brigades responsibility

To half the commentators here:
"11000 Palestinian prisoners in jail hundreds of them children"
1) If you wanna get closer to the truth, try to reduce that number, say, 10 times. Even though we catch about 20 of those a day, most are released after a week in a "gesture of goodwill".
2) Each and every one of those prisoners was caught near an IDF outpost or at a border pass, on his body, a machete, a molotov cocktail, heck, sometimes even an AK-47. When detained, 99% of them proudly confess their homicidical motives.
3) Children? Sadly, yes. A lot of these guys are hot-headed 17-year-olds, brainwashed to the point where they leave their families behind, recieve a gun from a delighted Hamas agent, and go off to shoot some Israelis.
4) Never go to court? well, yeah. Imagine this case going to court:
A violent Palestinian, who, may I remind you, already proudly confessed, clutching an AK-47, wearing a Hamas flag and shouting "Itbah al Yehud!" ("slaughter the Jews"). I think we would all agree that this is a waste of the judge's time, and the Palestinian gets 10-20 for attempted murder. That's a minimum of 6 years with good behavior, since there's no way the President is gonna pardon him, in a jail with violent, criminal and pissed off Jews. Otherwise, he is brought immediately to a holding center as a POW, and is released after a week as a "gesture of goodwill" to Fatah. Personally, I think most of them don't want to go to court.
Note: Some cases, when there is uncertainty, DO reach court.

@4:03; "are the members of Parliament terrorists ?are the children terrorists?"

The answer is yes! Hamas and Islamic Jihad are considered terrorist organizations not only by Israel, but also by the US, Europe, and all Western democracies. Only dictatorships don't consider these groups as terrorists.

Hamas members of Palestinian parliament are terrorists, since Hamas is a terrorist organization. And for your information, although they should be in prison for calling for the destruction of Israel, Israeli Arab members of parliament (Knesset) continue to serve in parliament, instead of in prison.

17 year-old "kids" who strap explosives to their bodies and attempt to blow up buses, discos, restuarants, cafes, etc. are terrorists.

"the real terrorists and outlaws are the Jewish terrorist settlers..."

Can you give me just one name of a Jewish suicide bomber? On the otherhand, in the last few years there have been hundreds of Palestinian suicide bombers who have murdered over 1,000 Israeli men, women, and children!

Palestinians detained by Israeli security forces are routinely tortured and ill-treated, according to a new report published by Israeli human rights groups yesterday. The ill-treatment, which includes beatings, sensory deprivation, back-bending, back-stretching and other forms of physical abuse, contravenes international law and Israeli law, the report says.

The Centre for the Defence of the Individual and B'Tselem, an Israeli human rights group, compiled the report after interviewing 73 Palestinians who had been arrested in 2005 and 2006.

The report found that almost 50% of detainees who were arrested in raids or at random were beaten by the army or police before they were handed over to the Shin Bet security agency for interrogation. The prisoners were interrogated for an average of 35 days and spent most of their time in tiny cells in solitary confinement. They were interrogated from five to 10 hours a day. More than half did not see a lawyer or representative of the Red Cross for the whole period of interrogation.



THIS IS THE SO CALLED DEMOCRACY IN ISRAEL.

Jewish settlers are terrorizing Palestinians with impunity, attacking children on their way to school and destroying farmers' trees and crops, a U.N. expert on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict said in a report.

John Dugard, a South African lawyer, called the withdrawal of Israeli troops and settlers from the Gaza Strip last summer a positive step. But the Jewish state effectively controls Gaza through targeted killings and sonic booms from warplanes flying over the region, Dugard said in a report prepared ahead of next week's annual meeting of the 53-member U.N. Human Rights Commission.

@7:21; "They were interrogated from five to 10 hours a day. More than half did not see a lawyer or representative of the Red Cross for the whole period of interrogation."

How many times have Israelis being held hostage by the Palestinians and Hezbollah, been able to see the Red Cross?! Never! The only time they see the Red Cross is when their mutilated body parts come back in coffins carried over the border by the Red Cross in "prisoner swaps".

"THIS IS THE SO CALLED DEMOCRACY IN ISRAEL."

Although flawed, at least Israel has a democracy. Any Palestinian receives more rights in an Israei jail than they would in a Palestinian jail. The fact that B'Tselem is allowed to exist in the first place goes to show the democracy that Israel has. This organization which parades itself as a "human rights" organization has been involved in everything from harrassing soldiers trying to stop Palestinian suicide bombers from entering Israel, to giving rides to the Palestinian suicide bombers to reach the cafes, discos, or buses that they want to blow up. Any Arab country would execute the members of such an organization for acts of treason and any Western country would imprison them for 20 years to life. In Israel, they are rewarded by the left-wing media and corrupt Israeli governments. You are right when you say, "THIS IS THE SO CALLED DEMOCRACY IN ISRAEL." This is the same democracy that allows Arab members of the Knesset (parliament) to call for the destruction of Israel and to meet with leaders of terrorist organizations, yet this same "democracy" bans political parties calling for the expulsion of Arab terrorists and their supporters.

Democracy in Israel is a one way street, for the Palestinian terrorists and their left-wing Israeli supporters.

Children are not terrorists:
October 25, 2008:
IDF forces apprehended a 17-year old Palestinian who arrived at Hawara checkpoint, south of Nablus, carrying a pipe bomb on his person.

The pipe bomb was detonated in a controlled environment and the youth was transferred to security forces for questioning. The checkpoint was closed following the incident.