Partners For Peace Threaten More Kidnappings

Once again, Hamas threatens still more kidnappings of Israelis to go along with Gilad Shalit, who is coming up on three years of captivity.

Meanwhile Hamas legislator Mushir al-Masri, who heads the movement's faction in the Palestinian parliament, warned that all options were still on the table in the struggle to free Palestinian prisoners – including additional kidnappings.

He added that Shalit would not be returned to his family until Israel agrees to free all the prisoners Hamas is demanding.

Speaking at an event for Palestinian prisoners organized by the Waed Society, which works on behalf of detainees, al-Masri praised the Palestinians for operating against Israel and said that 'the resistance' was unshakable.

Al-Masri also launched an attack against rival Palestinian faction Fatah. The negotiations between the two movements are also stagnated.

The legislator accused the Palestinian Authority's security forces of betraying the Palestinian people by preventing armed Palestinian groups in the West Bank from kidnapping Israeli settlers and the soldiers guarding them.

The terrorists aren't going to change their spots, and Hamas wants to control the future of all Palestinians. They see Fatah as betraying the Palestinians by reducing the reliance on armed conflict in favor of negotiations and an Intifada. Hamas is uncompromising in their determination to destroy Israel once and for all, and securing the release of hundreds of terrorists from Israeli jails is one step in that direction.

Taking additional Israelis hostage would increase pressure on the Israelis to release prisoners and add to the cachet of Hamas among the Gazans and Palestinians who are determined for jihad.