By Akiva Eldar, Barak Ravid and Avi Issacharoff, Haaretz Correspondents: Hamas: No truth in media storm over Shalit deal
Talkback
Title:Netanyahu and Barak needs a massive success
Name:Chris Linthwaite
City: State:
that they can sell to the Israeli public as all their own work.

The fact that Arabs and European sources are going around saying the deal is done bar crossing the t`s and dotting the i`s means there can be no big announcement and the celebrations would not be spontaneous giving the feel good factor which will enable announcements of settlement freezes etc etc etc.

That is Barak`s major gripe, not the fact that Shalit is coming home after 3 years. He couldn`t care less about that.