We need to pass a law prohibiting the exchange of murderers or anyone convicted of a violent crime for kidnapped Israelis, soldier or civilian, alive or dead. Gilad Shalit needs to be the last such exchange that is made. We used to have a firm rule against any negotiations with terrorists and any such “exchanges.” Such exchanges only encourage the kidnapping of more Israelis. There is little incentive for kidnapping when nothing will be won by doing so.

We should see no more such scenes as Abbas congratulating a man who ruthlessly and coldbloodedly took a father and his four year old daughter from their home and shot the father to death before the child’s eyes, later saying he wanted the last thing she saw to be the horror of her father’s death. And then he repeatedly bashed her head in with the butt of his rifle until she was dead. A four year old child. We should see no more such scenes. We should see no more such scenes as the celebrations for this murderer taking part in parts of Lebanon. [My thanks and respect go out to the thousands of Lebanese who protested Kuntar's release on the Lebanese-initiated facebook group decrying him as a murderer and a mark of shame. These people have shown that there is indeed human decency in Lebanon and not in small numbers].

Gilad Shalit should be the last soldier or civilian over whose return we negotiate with terrorists for.

Make Gilad Shalit the last.