Compare and contrast - moral equivalence

The BBC and others have been trying to create a moral equivalence between the terrorist kidnappers taking of Gilad Shalit and the Israeli government's legal imprisonment of Palestinian terrorists and associates. Of course there is no moral equivalence between Islamist terrorists tunnelling into Israeli territory and so kidnapping a 19 year-old Israeli Army conscript, incarcerating him for years in isolation without access to humanitarian aid of any kind or indeed access to fresh air, sending mocking videos & taunts to his family and the hundreds of Palestinian criminals who were tried and convicted for heinous crimes against Israeli civilians and military in courts of law (where they were provided with defence counsel) & who were housed, fed and educated in  comfortable & humane Israeli prisons. On release Gilad Shalit's family were gracious and non-confrontational to his former illegal captors whilst the released Palestinian prisoners came out complaining about their treatment to be lauded by the Palestinian masses as heroes for the acts that got them imprisoned in the first place.