http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB82/
tells us about America and Saddam Hussein. (It's American by the way), and how members of the current administration knew what he was doing to his own people and all about his chemical weapons.

So little less hypocrisy from the USA if you please.

And an Israeli general sold all his share portfolio within a couple of hours of the Hizbollah capturing two Israeli soldiers.

And that's not anti-semitic, it is against those who try and prosper from war. And clearly had little to do with getting prisoners released.

Probably just a coincidence of course.