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2009-03-18 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Hamas warns it may hike price for Israeli soldier

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Posted by ed 2009-03-18 10:29|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Hmmm, no one wants to buy what you are selling at the offered price, so you raise the price to make the deal more attractive. That makes sense - in a Bizzaro World sort of way. Although it does explain why the Islamic world has roughly the same GDP as San Francisco's Chinatown.

Posted by SteveS 2009-03-18 12:23|| 2009-03-18 12:23|| Front Page Top

#2 What else can they do. They can't deliver him. Unfortunately chances are he's long dead :(.

If he was alive they would be releasing videos of him to put on the pressure.

Posted by CrazyFool 2009-03-18 13:21|| 2009-03-18 13:21|| Front Page Top

#3 Prime Minister Olmert announced yesterday he was walking away from negotiations at the previous price. I think the relatives' promise to go hunting got his attention.

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2009-03-18 15:05|| 2009-03-18 15:05|| Front Page Top

#4 Olmert should thank his lucky stars he's ~~probably~~ not on the relatives' list....

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2009-03-18 15:16|| 2009-03-18 15:16|| Front Page Top

#5 Hamas is fond of 100 to 1 prisoner exchanges. It might be interesting if Israel were to extend that to bodies. For example, if all Hamas has to offer is Shalit's corpse, then it should be exchanged for the corpses of 1,000 or so Hamas prisoners.

Posted by rwv 2009-03-18 22:22|| 2009-03-18 22:22|| Front Page Top

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