So This Is What It Comes Down To

Just to highlight how bad the situation is in the Palestinian territories

(AP/Yahoo)Israel has proposed freeing a leader of the Palestinian uprising if the United States releases Jonathan Pollard, the former Pentagon analyst convicted of spying for the Jewish state, Army Radio reported Sunday.

Army Radio quoted Israeli security officials as saying that the release of Barghouti, a leading figure in Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah Party, could help Fatah wrest power back from the Islamic militant group Hamas and restore stability on the Palestinian street.

So the U.S. should give up a spy so we can try to force a showdown between Hamas and Fatah? Is that what Israel is really asking?