Word: swapping
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...Palestinian and Lebanese militants holding the Israeli soldiers make no secret that they grabbed them to swap for prisoners held in Israeli jails. Now that force has not succeeded, Olmert must play the militants' game and negotiate for their release. It is hardly unprecedented for Israeli prime ministers to do so; even Ariel Sharon, Olmert's hawkish predecessor, presided over an exchange of hundreds of Lebanese and Palestinian prisoners for the remains of some Israeli soldiers killed in Lebanon...
...Hamas, along with other Palestinian militant groups, is thought to have carried out the raid on an Israeli army post near Gaza in which Shalit was captured. The Israelis are also holding thousands of Palestinians for alleged terrorist crimes, and some of these may also be thrown into the swap...
...site for each successful trade. It's easy to post an item: you simply plug in identifying information--the site walks you through that--and the Web elves produce a full listing. The sole limitation--apart from those of your collection--is that you can only swap like items (CDs for CDs, books for books etc.). So choose a screen name, and start swapping...
...ambulances stopped next to each other in the middle of the road, engines running and lights still blazing away. The swap only took two minutes - both Red Cross crews had done this before and the whine of a drone and rumble of passing Israeli jets overhead were further incentives for haste...
Having triggered the conflict by capturing two soldiers inside Israel, Hizballah is functioning not just as a state within a state but almost as the state itself. Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah initially held a press conference to outline his terms for a prisoner swap: the soldiers would be returned for Lebanese and Palestinian prisoners in Israel. But Israel answered by bombing the runways at Beirut's international airport. Hizballah then began raining rockets on northern Israel. Although Nasrallah went into hiding along with other Hizballah leaders, he continues to issue statements, telling al-Jazeera TV, for example, that...