a deal would be a grave mistake. remember the israelis 'successfully' exchangig palestinian prisoners (the kind that shoot women and children and gloat about it) for the bodys of murdered israelis. promptly the hamas or whatever announced that they would now seek to abduct further israelis to get the rest of the prisoners free also.

the german wehrmacht learned when fighting the partisans in WWII, that you rather would not be captured alive, as this enemy gave nothing about the hague convention on how to wage landwarfare and would kill their prisoners after an tortoruous interview, with eyes being picked out and bowels cut out.

there are evil people in this world doing terrible things and i at least do not only think seeking a deal is a mistake, i also dont want to make a deal with them.