With Hizbullah scoring a victory in its prisoner exchange deal with Israel, pressure is building on Hamas to do even better, writes Khaled Amayreh in the West Bank A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY: A combo of three handout still video images made available by Israeli human rights group B'Tselem showing an Israeli soldier standing near an arrested handcuffed and blindfolded Palestinian. The Israeli soldier was caught on film shooting the Palestinian in the leg The recent "spectacular" prisoner swap deal between Israel and Hizbullah, which plunged Israel into a state national confusion while feelings of triumph spread in Lebanon and throughout the Arab world, is already impacting on efforts to resolve the Shalit affair. Hamas, like all other Palestinian factions, welcomed wholeheartedly the prisoner swap, arguing that it proved that...
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