Last week Israel said that it would agree to halt fighting - stop its indiscriminate murder of hundreds of innocent civilians -- if its two captured soldiers were returned and Islamic guerrillas withdrew from the border and the White House press secretary, Tony Snow, said more or less the same thing. Clearly no price is too high for the life of an Israeli soldier, especially if the currency used is the blood of innocent Muslims. Hezbollah took two Israeli prisoners, and the result now is that three and a half million Lebanese are being held hostage and terrorised.