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To: elmatador who wrote (72245)	1/28/2010 12:59:33 PM
From: Maurice Winn	4 Recommendations Respond to of 74559

The price of people is interesting. In the Made in China realm, people who are civilized, good workers, reliable and adept are not valued highly but criminally inclined bankers and lawyers on Wall Street are valued enormously. In Israel, we often read about the ratio of Jews versus Arabs killed in conflict as thought 100 Arabs to 1 Jew is a bad ratio. Of course, in a conflict, one side aims for no death on their side and 100% death on the other side. In hostage negotiations we see the price of people. < Then there is the present predicament of Hamas, which has promised its constituents a prisoner release in exchange for captive IDF soldier Gilad Shalit and, having greatly raised expectations across the Palestinian territories, has yet to deliver. Hamas, ever-attuned to Palestinian public opinion, can also ill afford another devastating campaign in the ravaged Strip so soon after Cast Lead. > People complain about the death rates in conflict, but look at the very low price that Arabs put on Arabs. They insist on 1000 to 1. The Israelis would accept 1:1, valuing Jews and Arabs at equal value. They would have both prisoners free now. But the Arabs prefer to leave prisoners imprisoned and demand more Arabs, hundreds of them, in exchange for one prisoner. The Arabs put a low value on the Arab prisoners. The Israelis say "No way is a Jew worth 1000 Arabs. Are you guys mad? Arabs are people too. But we desperately want our bloke free, so we will even give you 10 to 1. But the Arabs insist that Arabs have low value. Israel refuses to accept Arabs are worth as little as the Arabs claim. Mqurice