Precious Life.

I've been thinking...
Mr. Shalit is a young man.

It is a crime to take a young man's life -- even a soldier, collectively serving his country's cause. Better yet...

as the mighty power of symbolic gesture, let Israel show she understands that the punitive policies of the past have not worked. Instead of taking Mr. Shalit's life, in a true Fail Safe spin, let them merely unplug Arial "bulldozer" Sharon.

The mighty warrior is already gone. Yet his legacy lives on, a costly one.

Let the Israeli people show in mourning his death, that a new beginning is indeed within their grasp. It's possible to turn away from the reaping of today, what was sowed not so long ago.

Perhaps wise counsel to his sons might allow the switch of Mr. Shalit, remaining in custody, for the sacrifice of Sharon whose brain died four years ago already.

You know, as a way of avenging those Turkish deaths and all.