So Crime does pay....

[Mr Pee]

I'm sure criminals and terrorists from Somalia to Stockport will have watched with interest as Israel frees a thousand prisoners to secure the release of Gilad Shalit. What price now for a hostage? I have always been of the understanding that British policy is not to succumb to kidnapper's demands- and yet William Hague seems to support this capitulation by the Israelis.

It is a disgrace that the gangsters of Hamas have been thus rewarded for their criminal act.

[MrGongGong]

Indeed
though it seems to have worked very well as a strategy for Menachen Begin and friends who got a whole nation out of it

[Mahlerei]

Well, sometimes these gestures are necessary for the greater good. The IRA man who nearly killed me and my colleagues in Docklands in 1996 walked free as part of the necessary and long overdue change in Northern Ireland. That irked me at the time but doesn't bother me now.

[Ariosto]

Letting them out Mr Pee old chap would make no difference as Israel is a place made up mostly of criminals.