Saturday

Re: my observation in the last entry "Each day that Israel spends inside Gaza without recovering Schalit is one step closer to political and moral disaster." While no one wants to mention Schalit in the equation, the growing feeling is to caution Israel to pull out while it still has the upper hand:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7821512.stm
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1231424896038&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Meanwhile this is an aweful revelation - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7819492.stm and http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7819261.stm but it needs independent verification.