#6 Well since Olmert already lied to the families, his credibility is now sh*t, and he doesn't have the cajones to try this, it'd never work, but:
Demand the immediate release of the soldiers. Start executing Hezzie prisoners one at a time if they don't comply. After each execution, repeat the demand. If they release them, fine. If not, execute until you run out of hezzies. If they kill the prisoners, well, they were going to kill them anyway, but at least you haven't released scads of angry jihadists back into the Lebanese population only to strike again. Lose two soldiers, save hundreds, maybe thousands of Israeli lives. Not a perfect option, I grant you, but at least the lesser of two evils. |
A Hizbollah Cabinet minister said Wednesday that the guerrilla group would not release two captured Israeli soldiers unconditionally, and that they would only be freed in a prisoner exchange. "There will be no unconditional release. This is not possible," Minister of Energy and Hydraulic Resources Mohammed Fneish told reporters in Beirut. He is one of two Hizbollah members in Lebanon's Cabinet. "There should be an exchange through indirect negotiations. This is the principle to which Hizbollah and the resistance are adhering," he said.