Sounds like a game show! (Yeah, on Hell TV, the network of choice for savvy terrorists everywhere)
Anyway, since no one in the MSM seems to "get" that "negotations" involve making sure each side gets something they WANT, I decided to write a hypothetical script for what it might sound like if Condi Rice went face-to-snout with Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah (what it might sound like, that is, if she were HONEST and not trying hard to pretend that she was talking to a human being and not Satan incarnate).
You see, there's nothing Israel could give Hezbollah (or Hamas for that matter) that it really wants, other than Israel itself, with or without Israeli corpses instead of living citizens (preferably with of course--they dock you virgins in "Paradise" if you fail to actually "kill" the infidels).
Hezbollah didn't start this fight to get a "cease fire." They didn't start it to get territory, other than the territory currently known as Israel. What then could they get out of "negotiating?" What "win" could any negotiator like Condi Rice offer? Prisoner swaps? Anyone who believes that better just go back to their bong and keep smoking. Let's see how that would sound:
Condi: "Mr. Nasrallah, if you would just stop the random, unprovoked, illegal acts of terror you are currently perpetrating in violation of not one, but two UN resolutions, Israel is prepared to offer you several dozen unharmed, well-fed, well-rested members of your organization who--like you--are sworn to spend their lives (literally) pursuing the destruction of Israel.
Of course Mr. Nasrallah, we hope it goes without saying that in exchange for the live bodies of your followers you will also return the dead and (probably) mutilated bodies of the innocent Israeli soldiers you brutally kidnapped two weeks ago. We can assure you, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the UN and all other potentially interested parties will swarm like starving maggots all over the Israelis to investigate--in full view of the CNN, MSNBC, BBC, SkyNews and Al Jazeera cameras, and with exclusive print rights to the New York Times--the treatment your followers received while incarcerated (and legally represented). At the same time, we promise that these same entities won't as much as fart in your general direction. No need to worry about accusations of war crimes, no sir, we'll reserve the right of the Jew Hating "International Community" to level those at Israel and only Israel.
If you agree to this deal, and promise to honor it until your newly released followers have at least had a chance to shit, shower, change and load their rocket launchers (we figure somewhere in the vacinity of five and a half minutes), Israel will pull its troops out of Lebanon forthwith and return to her status as your target practice for the rest of us blind, deaf and dumb infidels.
Whaddaya say?"
Nasrallah: "Blessings be upon you so that your mangled corpse will rot more quickly in hell after we kill you and everyone who matters to you." "We accept!"