An ICZC Commentary:
By freeing Marwan Barghouti with all the other Hamas and Fatah prisoners, Israel will cause the only man charismatic enough to be able to do so to unite the Palestinian people – Fatah and Hamas into one.

Hamas will become the controlling factor in all upcoming negotiations with Israel, and will possibly also be the winner in future elections among the Arabs in Judea and Samaria.

The formerly-held red line – “no release of prisoners directly involved with the murder of Israeli citizens” – will have been crossed, stimulating suicide and other terrorists to widen their activity, especially in the kidnapping of any Israeli they may be able to capture.

God sacrificed His only begotten Son to save the world. (For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son…)

Noam Schalit understandably loves his son so much; he is apparently willing to sacrifice some of the best interests of his own people and nation in order to save Gilad from his torturous ordeal.

Yes, everyone wants peace, and there has probably never been a time when so many false messiahs and so-called peacemakers have come to the front of the stage, proclaiming the change towards a new world order in which all humans will be treated fairly and with equality. Who would not want such a world?

Barack Hussein Obama is doing this masterfully, reaching out to all religions, to the young and the old, the poor and the rich. ‘No more walls of separation and discrimination,’ he promised the crowds that gathered to hear him in Berlin, and thus he has continued, stretching out his hand to the whole Muslim world in Cairo, and later standing with the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, and Eli Wiesel at the horrendous site of Buchenwald, to proclaim that what was done there is not the way human beings should act. In his speech, Wiesel asked the question: has the world of today really changed and learned this lesson? Of course not.