Therefore, the haggling over the prisoners looks to me both hypocritical and disgusting. They shed blood as we shed blood. They hit civilians as we hit civilians. They followed orders as we did follow orders. However, our representatives have come to understand that the prisoners are good objects for trade.
Every prisoner has a price.
One can get something for him. But that's the attitude of a street peddler, not of a peace-making statesman. But before we can do that, we must liberate ourselves from the poisonous words. Today, in Gaza, a conference on this subject will be convened. I was invited to speak, and shall say there what I have written here.