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Jawdat in Bethlehem says that negotiations were the best solution, not force. But Namaa in Jerusalem, who considers herself on the left of Israeli politics, accused the Palestinian government of being involved in the abduction. She said Israel must be ready to use force.

Noam in Tel Aviv said respect for life is different on the Palestinian side of the conflict. He said that the Israeli forces try to target only militants, but he accused the Palestinians of targetting Israeli civilians and using their own people as cover for attacks and as human shields.

Noam says that to stop the rockets from endangering Israeli civilians that Israel should re-occupy border areas.

Stanley in Tel Aviv said that the Israeli forces should wait a little longer. They should try to try to find out more about the soldier to try to save his life. He described himself as a 'peace-monger', but he said that once they find out about the soldier that Israel should be prepared to use force.

Gender equality under the law

Then we moved on a draft law in Spain that would call on employers to have equal pay for both men and women in the next round of wage increases and for companies to have at least 40% women on their boards.

Katrina, a lawyer in London, says that she is paid as much as her male colleagues working at the same level. She didn't think that a law was the right way forward.

Professor Hege Skjeie in Norway said that imbalances between men and women in the workplace remain without regulation and quotas. Ali in Norway said that such quotas were good for men. Less responsibility for earning money was on their soldiers.

Ana in Madrid welcomed the law. She said that both men and women work a lot now. She said women entering positions of power that they would impart values of the importance of family and life outside of work.

Asier in Madrid said that Spanish society was much more sexist than other areas in Europe and that the law was necessary.

Here's a text message that just came in:

Why can't women just stay home so humanity can stop this gender-equality argument when there ought to have none to start with? Let's just obey the laws (sorry, no pun intended) of nature & go back to basics: Women caregivers and men winners of bread - and yes, bringers of bacon. There would be peace. Amen

Do you know your HIV status?

We spoke to people on the streets of Washington. They had issues of privacy and whether this should be mandatory. But we cleared a few things up. This is voluntary, said Dr Gregg Pane, the director of the Washington Department of Health.

He said that this should be a part of everyone's routine healthcare. "This is public health issue number one," he said.

Kim Mills, with the Whitman-Walker Clinic, said that the campaign could be possible. She cautioned people that it is not only whether a person practiced safe sex but whether a person's partners practiced safe sex.

For Kwame in London, he wasn't worried:

I've not tested because i a vigin married a virgin, we are faithful to each other and we don't do drugs of any form. In effect, we live safely.

And Andrew sent us this text:

An alternative to HIV testing is monogamy. Of course this is considered old fashioned and boring.