Hamas to deliver "final Shalit offer."

Hamas promises to deliver final Shalit offer within days http://tinyurl.com/yzxg7m6

There's something just a little disingenuous about this headline. Almost sounds like Hamas thinks it negotiating on a used car. But of course that's always been the way that the terrorists have negotiated for prisoners. Which such little regard for human life, they demand the release of known murderers and those who plot to murder innocent men, women, and children -- terrorists to anyone with any sense of objectivity, but "militants" or "activists" to the mainstream media and Arab media.

Who can forget the images of the return of Samir Kuntar being cheered by the Lebanese President, Prime Minister, Speaker of the Parliament, and so-called religious clerics in Lebanon? Kuntar had been responsible for the "death of an Israeli father and his two children in 1979." But even that description in the mainstream media is not entirely accurate. Truth be told, Kuntar helped to carry out one of the most heinous and brutal crimes in Israel's history, admitting to murdering an Israeli policeman, another man, and the man's 4-year old daughter, who died after her head was smashed against a rock. Kuntar was also convicted of the smothering death of the child's baby - smothered when the mother tried to keep the infant from crying which would have revealed their hiding location.

But, Israel went so far as to release this monster just for the remains of the two soldiers -- Ehud Regev and Ehud Goldwasser -- whose kidnapping sparked the 2006 Lebanese War. For nearly two years, Hezbollah led the families of these two missing soldiers to believe that they were still alive. Really, what kind of monsters continue to inflict such emotional pain?

And now here we are, on the cusp of a deal to return a soldier whose kidnapping was in violation of all sorts of international law and whose whereabouts are unknown to anybody including the Red Cross/Red Crescent, suffice it to say any humanitarian agency. Once again, Hamas flaunts international law, and continues to demand more. And at the end of the day, Israel will have offered up a number of criminals that no civilized society would want on the street, will be either vilified in the media for being the reason that Gilad is not released, or seen as caving if he is.