Israel counts cost of humiliation in bodies

Published Date: 20 July 2008 "What we saw on Wednesday was disgusting and I'm worried about whether Hamas will now bother to keep Gilad Shalit alive," said Stella Levy-Heisler, a dentist, who was having lunch with family and friends. "I mean, why should they keep him alive when they saw what Hezbollah got for just two dead bodies?" Her husband, Yaniv Levy, agreed, insisting the time had come for Israel to change its time-honoured tradition of doing everything possible to ensure the return of its soldiers, either dead or alive. "I would say it should be dead body for dead body, end of story," the 37-year-old IT manager said. "I don't like what my prime minister did, not at all." With many Israelis now arguing that the Jewish state paid far too high a price over Wednesday's deal – five Lebanese prisoners for two Israeli... [read full story]