Questions About the Shalit Case

Have you read any report in any media outlet stating that Israel demands real proof that Gilad Shalit is alive, before any further negotiations?

Why aren't the Shalits and their supporters demonstrating outside the Red Cross offices?

If the amount of Arab terrorists to be freed is over 1400, can Israel say that 1 Jewish soldier is worth 1400 Arab terrorists without being accused of racism?

Is Yaron Dekel correct when he writes that there is a manipulation in that the media’s overwhelming endorsement of Shalit deal does not serve our national interest:

...the Israeli press waited for the current stage in the struggle and is now all over it, as if it found a great treasure. The Israeli media has already decided: Gilad must be released, at any price...choosing to forget that the story is more complex and less simplistic than the abduct soldier’s family wishes to present it.

To the press’ credit, we can say that it is conducting itself consistently. During the campaign to return the bodies of IDF casualties Regev and Goldwasser, may they rest in peace, the media did not remain on the sidelines either. It pressed the PM and government ministers until the deal was executed. It also refused to highlight the fact it was aware of for a long time: We were dealing with bodies, rather than living soldiers.?

Since Arab terrorists have been in Israel jails much longer than Shalit and since we really haven't seen similar demonstrations, at least at this moment, by Arab mothers and fathers and brothers and sisters and children, what does reflect on Israel's national spirit?