clipped by: jatfla clipper's remarks: Well of course. Imagine what the Israeli politicians will do for *live* prisoners? Clip Source: www.theaustralian.news.com.au Hamas to raise price for Shalit HAMAS has pledged to heed lessons from Israel's prisoner swap with Hezbollah by demanding a higher price for captured soldier Gilad Shalit, held in the Gaza Strip. The militant regime, which rules Gaza, has said Israel had shown it was no longer able to dictate terms during negotiations, and immediately moved to set its own terms on protracted talks about Shalit's release. Israeli officials have spent days trying to downplay the aftermath of the swap, in which many commentators on both sides of the Lebanese border have claimed Israeli leaders did poorly. Hamas negotiators in Gaza, meanwhile, were demanding that the same German negotiator who brokered the Hezbollah-Israel deal also play a role in floundering talks about a trade for Shalit. ...