1) You think that the order not to shoot can never be wrong? What if by shooting now and killing 5 people now you can save more lives later? What if by killing 5 palestinians you can save 2 soliders?

2) WRONG! Russia in Azbekistan won a gurrilla war against muslims fighting for freedom. How? whenever they killed someone - they buried him with a pig, so he won't go to heaven. The Muslims knew that by d ying they won't be "Shahid" and didn't fight. They also killed quite many people - but they won.
Good peace can happen when the other side has something to lose when fighting - at this situation if they fight we lose and they win, so why shouldn't they fight?
They need to understand that they have more to gain by peace, and by agreements than by Intifada, until then there'll be no real peace, and no real quite.

There will be peace only when they know that if they fight they'll suffer more than we do. If we don't let them suffer for fighting - why should they prefer peace?

I want palestinians mothers to worry about their husbands comming home, just like I worry about mine, and when a solider is killed and the entire country is in grief - I want them to grieve too.

3. The problem is that we pretend to be doing something about the captives while we don't. So we lose either way. Worse thing we can do is give in - that'll be encourging them, so we have 3 choices:

a. Try to retrieve them - risking the life of many more soliders in the process - bad idea.
b. Bomb lebanon heavily, tell the Hizbulla we'll stop only when the soliders are back.
c. Do nothing. If the hizbulla see they gain nothing by kidnapping they'll stop.

I prefer option B, but this can be argued.
But the worst thing the goverment does is what they do with Ron Arad - giving the family false hopes. I wish the goverment would have the guts to tell the families that they don't do a damn thing because they care more about Arab families then about their soliders. That would be more truthfull.

The problem is that you do the calculation for the enemy.
A country doesn't have to care about the life of it enemies. Why should we? we have enough problems keeping our soliders alive.
Does any country takes special care not to hurt the enemy? did the US in Viatman and Bosnia avoided killing civillians?

The problem with this country is that we care about the enemy more than we care about our soliders. And we are corrupted enough to believe that this is the moral thing to do.

And the fact that our goverment teaches our neighbors that the only way to do business is with violance is another problem altogether.

Violance should be answered with violance, peaceful conduct should be answered by giving them all the help we can - freedom, loans, education, rights, whatever we can.

"Our aim now is to force Israel to deal with Palestinians and other Arabs with respect and justice, without dictating its terms, resolutions and policies on Arabs and Palestinians"

From a national point of view a dead solider is much prefered to a captured one.
Hundreds of soliders died in Lebanon, 10 were captured alive.
The 10 captives caused more demage, in tactical and moral terms than hundreds of dead soliders. I'm not even talking about leaked information.
Being dead is probably better for the army, the state, the families and the soliders themselves.

I'm not saying that soliders should kill themselves, giving soliders cyanide will cause infinite moral damage. I'm saying that your cynicism has no place - we do prefer dead soliders - and it has nothing to do with erection.

You think the pig is a joke?
You must be aware that most terrorists are deaply religious muslims - they take pigs more seriosly than you do.
Ask any religious jew how would he feel about being buried with a pig.
This is a serious threat.
More than that - it is proven to work. Read a bit about russian-muslim wars.

And to answer a cheap demagogic point about the use of cyclone-B:
I agree that any method of mass killing is as bad as another.
However most of us oppose the Nazis not because they used a certain method of killing but because they were after Genocide. I'm against genocide. I don't want to kill all arabs. I want to live in peace with arabs. To that end I suggest killing as many trouble makers as we can, and then giving land, money, guns, food, work, rights and whatever else to whoever is after peace.
But war must be effective - and I think that buring with a pig is more effective than just killing so in the long run it will reduce violance and resuce number of casualities, and increase chance of peace - which is what we want.

When religious fanatics will be afraid to be killed by Israel - then we'll have a chance for real peace.