Is this the real deal or just another false hope?

After three years in captivity, Israeli hostage Gilad Shalit, may soon be transferred to Egypt as part of a prisoner swap, according to European sources. I pray that it’s true and I pray that the swap is a one for one deal. it’s not that I object to offering the hundreds of Hamas fighters that I am sure will be required to gain this one young man’s release. It’s that lasting peace will a lot closer when both sides of the conflict agree about the supreme value of even one of their own. But either way, it’s time for this to happen.