Ticked off terrorists and their friends

On Wednesday, the outgoing Israeli cabinet adopted a proposal by eventually resigning Prime Minister Ehud K. Olmert that linked a 'cease fire' in Gaza to the release of kidnapped IDF corporal Gilad Shalit. The cabinet announced that while Israel is prepared to exchange an unspecified (and rapidly growing) number of terrorists for Shalit, the crossings from Israel to Gaza would remain closed until