GILAD SHALIT--AN EXAMPLE OF HOW CHEAP PALESTINIAN LIVES ARE: Media Backspin quotes from a Kurdish magazine:

Shalit, who the Palestinians are using for a bargaining chip, has in fact become a hero in every sense. That is because of how his story is treated in the Arab media. The media have made Israel a shining example of a powerful country that has not caved to the traditional methods used against it, while the use of these methods shows the failure of the Arab regimes to deal with current needs.

...Look at how the Israeli government and all its apparatus is dealing with the capture of Gilad Shalit. The humanity they show will inspire every Israeli soldier who knows that if anything happens to him, he will be treated like a hero, like Shalit, and released for a herd of Palestinian prisoners who will go back to the slaughterhouse and imaginary army which so far hasn’t been able to rid itself of the cancer of divided loyalties.

I don't know how accurate a portrayal this is--especially that Israel is "a shining example of a powerful country that has not caved to the traditional methods used against it," but the Arab boast that Israel's weakness is that she values life more than her enemies may reveal what is actually a problem that is eating away at the Palestinian Arabs.

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