The AP article.
Marisol at Jihad Watch comments:
"Think of everything that has transpired in the past five years of your life. Through all of that, Gilad Schalit has been a captive of Hamas in Gaza. This openly criminal behavior by Hamas has been largely forgotten amid wishful thinking about including the group in the “peace process.” It should serve to remind that Hamas is not a legitimate state entity, and has never behaved according to the standards befitting one. It should also serve to remind that Hamas’ reason for existence remains the destruction of the nation whose soldier it has unlawfully imprisoned for half a decade."
Why is this unacceptable evil allowed to persist?
Oh, this nearly brought me to tears.
ReplyDeleteMy heart is with him as well, afw. Strangely, I had recently been thinking of him, wondering if he is still alive.
ReplyDeleteThe Israeli government is stymied, what to do? I wish they could send in a special ops force and wrest him away.
I was also shocked to see that Moon condemned his imprisonment. What a hypocrite.
"Kadoura Fares, head of the Palestinian prisoners association, said Israel had already severely limited prisoners' visitation rights.
ReplyDeleteWhat about Schalits rights, has his family been in to see him? Has he been able to receive and write letters home? Where in the heck is the Red Cross on this?
Where in the hell was Red Cross during the Holocaust?
ReplyDeleteI can hardly read anything about Gilad Shalit without a terrible heartache. In my husband's family we have another missing soldier: Zachary Baumol, a US citizen, was captured in 1982 in the first Lebanon war during the battle for Sultan Yaakub in Lebanon. He was captured by the Lebanese and as far as we know passed over to Syria. Since then - nearly 30 years!! - there has not been a word or a sign of life. Yasser Arafat (may he rot and burn in hell) bruoght Zak's parents half his dog-tag and promised to bring the other half and more news. Of course he was just cynically playing with them, and meanwhile Zak's father died a couple of years ago, never knowing what happened to him. Together with Zak, 2 other IDF soldiers were captured, and they too have disappeared without trace, and their parents too have died without knowing what happened to their sons.
ReplyDeleteYou can read about all the missing soldiers here: Israel's MIAs
The story of Shalit, as with Ron Arad and several other soldiers, is part of Arab (or is it Muslim) cruelty and inhumanity.
I posted about Gilad a while back. Perhaps you'll be interested: To ransom or not to ransom?
Gilad Shalit has never been forgotten here. Annie, it's heartbreaking that your family has had no word about Zak in all these years. Thanks for the MIA link, and for the link to your article.
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