Israel Trades Monster for 2 Dead Soldiers:USA TODAY

    So, you don't think there is much difference between  Israel and the rest of the middle east?
    Just like Pakistan, the UN in 1948 gave the modern State of Israel, the right to exist.  Of course the Israeli's--Jews and Arabs--have lived under constant war for 60 straight years.
`Now, they have to give up a notorious murderer, who killed a Mother in front of her 4 year old child and then bashed the head in of the 4 year old, and killed others in the same attack---will be released to Hezbollah--for two Israeli soldiers, not at war, who were kidnapped, and then murdered.
    This story makes me sick.
    It also shows mentality of those who would destroy Israel...and anyone else that gets in their way.
    Part of USA Today story, June 29th, 2008 (www.usatoday.com)
   

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's Cabinet voted overwhelmingly on Sunday in favor of an emotionally charged deal to swap a notorious Lebanese prisoner for the bodies of two soldiers declared earlier in the day to be dead.

The deal with the Lebanese Hezbollah militant group has sparked a fierce debate over whether Israel would be giving up too much — or carrying out its highest commitment to its soldiers to do everything possible to bring them home if they fell into enemy hands.

Hezbollah militants captured Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev in a July 2006 cross-border raid that sparked a vicious, month-long war.

In return for their bodies, the Cabinet agreed to release Samir Kantar, a Lebanese guerrilla imprisoned for nearly 30 years for an attack etched in the Israeli psyche as one of the cruelest in the nation's history.

Hezbollah had offered no sign that Goldwasser and Regev were alive and the Red Cross was never allowed to see them. Ahead of the vote, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said for the first time that Israel has concluded the two soldiers were dead — killed during the raid or shortly after.

---Bob Kholos