RavDav vs. KenBob

KenBob, President of Ameinu, the liberal, progressive organization says that, the
RavDav is missing the subtlety of what is going on behind the scenes. While Olmert states categorically that there will not be a "straight up" prisoner exchange for Gilad, the negotiations taking place through third parties are all about the timing and the overall package deal. How much time must elapse from the release of Gilad and the release of selected prisoners? Are the Qassam attacks and an Israeli withdrawal from Gaza part of the deal? Such matters aren't as simple as RavDav would like to them to be and painting me with "trusting in the words of terrorists" is just a cheap trick. I certainly can't guarantee that the negotiations will succeed but unlike RavDav, I think they are worth pursuing.

To which, the RavDav replies, As reported in the Jerusalem Post, Prime Minister Olmert told the cabinet that last month he had considered a prisoner release as a confidence-building gesture before he was to hold a long-awaited meeting with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. However, before the meeting came to pass, Shalit was kidnapped, and the initiative was withdrawn.
That prisoner release would have helped the "moderates," Olmert said. According to a participant in the meeting, he then banged on the table and said the ministers had to realize that "releasing Palestinian prisoners to Hamas would be the end of the moderates. It would send a signal to all the international players that Israel only knows how to talk after a kidnapping, and only with the extremists, not the moderates."
And what could be more ‘subtle’ than ‘banging one’s fist on the table’, shelling Qassam Rocket sites with hundreds of shells and shooting Hellfire missiles up the tailpipes of Palestinian Terrorists?
The only ‘cheap trick’ going on here is the one KenBob would perpetrate on the Israeli people by trusting in the words of Hamasnicks. If only the esteemed leader of Ameinu would scrutinize the words of Gilad’s kidnappers, as much as he does the lowly little RavDav, his organization might just be taken seriously.
Memo to KenBob: The only thing worth pursuing is victory. It’s the only thing the enemy understands and you can be sure they intend to win or die trying. Is that ‘simple’ enough for you?