If all goes well, the fundamentalist Palestinian organization Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, will release Israeli soldier Gilead Shalit, abducted by Hamas five years ago in a cross-border raid. In return, Israel will release 477 "heavy" Palestinian prisoners from its prisons and another 550 down the road as part of the Egyptian-mediated "1 for 1027" prisoner swap. Many Israelis regard this as a major capitulation to Palestinian terrorism.
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