‘Hannibal’ policy: Israel’s plan to kill its own soldiers

Israelis are wallowing in the conviction that the prisoner exchange, in which Sgt Shalit was returned for more than 1,000 Palestinian security prisoners, proves Jews value life more than Arabs. Positing an Arab culture of "primitivism and barbarity", a commentator at Ynet, Israel's most popular website, boasted: "We lost the sadism contest by knock-out."