Straight From Hamas' Own Monstrous Mouths

From this CBS report:

A Hamas leader in Gaza, Mahmoud Zahar, told the Israeli daily Yediot Ahronot in an interview published Sunday that the swap deal for Schalit will encourage the Islamic group to capture more soldiers.

"The lessons we've learned by kidnapping soldiers leads us to continue the kidnappings," the Hamas leader said. "We still have 7,000 prisoners in (Israeli) jails, and they also need to be released."

Yes, we taught them, by their own admission, that kidnapping is an effective technique. This is not the behavior of a budding state. This is the behavior of a full-fledged criminal terrorist gang.