The list of Palestinian prisoners to be released in exchange for Shalit includes many captured terrorist leaders. But more importantly, it also includes a number of Arabs from East Jerusalem.
By releasing these prisoners, Israel is agreeing to treat her Arab population as enemy combatants, entitled to be released in prisoner exchanges.
So far, the exchange is stalled over big-ticket names. It is perfectly okay to murder common Israelis—the government has long agreed to release the perpetrators of such crimes—but emotions flare over Abed Sayeed, who organized the Park Hotel massacre that left rich and famous Israelis dead.
Tens of thousands of good Jews risked their lives to arrest the 1,100 Palestinian terrorists who are soon to be released for a worthless corporal from a well-connected leftist family.
