Israel divided over price of freedom for captive soldier Gilad Shalit

More than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners will be freed in exchange for military

fresh lilies are regularly established in a monument by the testimony of Tel Aviv Dolphinarium have a night in 2001 when 21 young Israelis were killed, while lining up outside a nightclub. Another 132 were injured in the attack Hotari Said, a young Palestinian suicide bomber belonging to Hamas.

But the flowers of protest last week came in pain. Husam Badran, former head of the military wing of Hamas in the West Bank and the instigator of the attack on the Dolphinarium, are expected to be among the 477 Palestinian prisoners released on Tuesday an agreement to release Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. Another 550 will be available in two months.

"It's surreal. It's unbelievable," said a young mother with anger, looking at the monument. "Perhaps the only cons, but it seems the release of 1000 assassins. People say that Netanyahu has shown courage in agreeing to release them, but I say that terrorism has given."

over the past five years, the parents of captive soldier Gilad Shalit have won the Israeli public with his campaign tirelessly to free his son, urging the Israeli government to do everything possible to save their kidnappers in the Gaza Strip. Israel celebrated last week when he finally succeeded. But the joy of the country is temperate, with serious doubts.

For Palestinians, prisoners exchanged against Shalit 1027 are freedom fighters. For the Israelis are terrorists responsible for some of the bloodiest atrocities in the country. Israel wants to free Shalit, but hard to stomach the cost of freedom.

Gustav Specht, 47, who runs a restaurant near the Dolphinarium in Tel Aviv Beach, the actions of the general public reaction as described in the Israeli media:. "I think it's the least bad outcome for all I know is happy to be free Gilad."

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• But his colleague Alon, 28, thinks differently. Her friend lost her father in a suicide bombing in Jerusalem for several years: "He heard about the release of the murderer of his father in the news no one thought to tell his family he is very angry ... "

The official list of prisoners agreed to release was not published but was leaked versions have appeared on websites of several new in Arabic. Israel has recognized some of the most notorious terrorists in the region. It was Muhammad Duglas, involved in a suicide bombing at the Sbarro pizzeria in Jerusalem that killed 15 people. Abdel Hadi Ghanem Islamic Jihad, responsible for the attack in 1989 on a public bus in which 16 Israelis were killed. And hundreds of others like them. Others have been convicted of crimes.

little doubt that the return of securing Shalit has boosted the popularity of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, but

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columnist Jonathan Spyer warned that bid for the affections of the public. "In six months we will see the terrorist attacks linked to the men released. And Bibi [Netanyahu] to pay a very serious, "said Spyer. "In all this, the Shalit family and Hamas are the winners, the Israeli public is the loser." Terror expert Boaz Ganor Israel agrees to the release of political prisoners has given legitimacy to Hamas, but predicted that pose no immediate threat Israeli security.
Hamas, listed in the U.S. and the UK as a terrorist organization, has proved a pragmatic negotiating partner. By insisting on the release of prisoners from all factions, who found popular support in Gaza and the West Bank, undermining half of the Palestinian Authority through its offer of the UN for the state. Not serve the interests of Hamas, said Ganor, so that the situation deteriorates to enable released prisoners to undertake a campaign of terror. "But I'm not limited to kidnapping. This proved to be as effective strategically in the past, I think they [Hamas] would try to kidnap Israeli soldiers and civilians for more power in their hands. " Boaz also said the exchange of prisoners was negotiated in 1985 by Shimon Peres - 1150 Palestinian prisoners against three Israeli soldiers captured in the war in Lebanon - which triggered the First Intifada

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