Binyamin Netanyahu, tonight confirmed he was prepared to release 1,000 Palestinian prisoners in exchange for the abducted Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, but drew the line at paying "any price" for the soldier's freedom.

They have one thousand Palestinian prisoners*, and all we hear about is one Israeli?
Talk about victim culture!
Shalit's grandfather says that the Netanyahu statement is a death sentence on Gilad. Maybe that is the intention. There are those who say Shalit the dead martyr is more useful to the Israelis than Shalit the Hamas bargaining chip.
An agreement between Hamas and Israeli negotiators for Shalit's release needed only the nod from Netanyahu, but he turned it down. He didn't want a propaganda coup for Hamas (or perhaps it was a case of "Bring me the corpse of Gilad Shalit").

*In fact they have many more.