A 19 year old Israeli conscript in the army, Gilad Shalit was kidnapped by Hamas three years ago and has been kept imprisoned since then. Negotiations are being conducted through Egypt and yesterday Hamas released a video showing the now 22 year old in good health. In return Israel has released nineteen low level Palestinian prisoners. Now that it is established that the young man is alive negotiations can move on to discuss the terms of his release. Seems that Hamas is demanding release of 400-500 high level prisoners, those convicted of murder of Israeli citizens, in exchange for the release of one ordinary young man. There was great rejoicing in Gaza when the nineteen released Palestinians came home. Perhaps the Palestinians should have paused to reflect the message there own leaders are sending to the Israelis and to the world. Hamas leaders are acknowledging that one relatively ' unimportant ' Israeli is equivalent to 400 Palestinians. Israelis are unlikely to forget this equation and in any future conflict and will inflict damage on the Palestinians which reflecting this balance. The biased Europeans have been accusing Israel of war crimes during the last conflict but they should see that it is Hamas itself which accepts that Palestinians are cheap. However politics is based on lies.