tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10230833350390039512024-03-06T00:30:05.038+11:00Free Gilad Shalitגלעד שליטUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger83125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1023083335039003951.post-65701246281076614912014-06-19T03:04:00.000+10:002014-06-19T03:04:09.822+10:00IDF Re-Arrests 51 Terrorists Freed in Shalit DealFrom <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/181867#.U6HFB5Rv4Uc">INN</a>:<blockquote>The IDF Spokesman said Wednesday morning that as part of the large-scale intelligence and operational activities that the IDF and Israel Security Agency (ISA, or Shin Bet) have undertaken in order to locate the three abducted teens, security forces have arrested about 65 wanted men. <b>Of these, 51 were freed in Operation Beit Hashoeva in 2011 – the release of over 1,000 terrorists in exchange for IDF soldier Gilad Shalit, who was held captive by Hamas for over five years.</b>
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The arrested men have been taken to interrogation.
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Since the start of the operation, said the IDF, about 240 wanted men have been arrested. About 800 homes were searched, and about 10 actions were taken against targets that are part of the “da'awa” – Hamas's "social outreach" and recruitment infrastructure.
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The fact that 51 of 65 wanted men arrested were freed in the Shalit deal appears to be an intentional message to Hamas, that its strategy of abducting Jews to obtain the release of its terrorists achieves the opposite.</blockquote>Cosmic Xhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13880746347107372827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1023083335039003951.post-75189036156761703502013-08-27T05:57:00.002+10:002013-08-27T05:57:56.697+10:00Kalandia Rioter Previously Released in Shalit DealFrom <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/171310#.Uhuwz3-NBrE">INN</a>:<blockquote>Meanwhile, it has been revealed that one of the three terrorists killed in the early hours of this morning had been released in 2011, as part of the deal to free Gilad Shalit.
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Another one of the casualties was also a known terrorist, according to the Israeli security service, Shin Bet.
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Yunis Jahjouh, 22, was killed along with Rubeen Abed Fares and Jihad Aslan. He was 19 at the time of the "Shalit Deal," which saw more than 1,000 terrorists released from Israeli prisons.
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Border Police had entered Kalandia to an individual for suspected terrorist activities. Over a thousand Palestinian Arabs started rioting, and throwing rocks and stones at the Israeli personnel.
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The IDF force that was providing security for the arresting squad took action to extricate it, and when the forces felt actual danger to their lives, they opened fire at the attackers. The wanted man was arrested and taken to interrogation.</blockquote>You can see a video of the Arabs rioting <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/171293#.UhuyCH-NBrF">here</a>.Cosmic Xhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13880746347107372827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1023083335039003951.post-76588236596318193572013-05-17T16:24:00.000+10:002013-05-17T16:24:10.143+10:00Gilad Shalit Blesses "HaGomel"
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/P7hEEXCLDnE?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <p> [<a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/168057#.UZXBAkrzn40">source</a>]<p>Crossposted <a href="http://cosmicx.blogspot.co.il/2013/05/gilad-shalit-blesses-hagomel.html">here</a>.Cosmic Xhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13880746347107372827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1023083335039003951.post-66118180968356526132012-04-06T05:52:00.000+10:002012-04-06T05:52:32.851+10:00Schalit For PollardFrom <a href="http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=264983">jpost</a>:<blockquote>Former captive IDF soldier Gilad Schalit on Thursday joined the petition calling on President Shimon Peres to increase pressure on the US to release imprisoned Israeli agent Jonathan Pollard. Gilad's parents Noam and Aviva Schalit also signed the petition.<br><br>
So far nearly 30,000 people have signed the petition, demanding that Peres act on the issue, before receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom from US President Barack Obama in the summer.
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The president's office said they were working hand in hand with the campaign for Pollard's release and that Peres intends do his utmost to bring about the release of Pollard.
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"As president, I see it as very important to work determinedly to bring about Jonathan Pollard's release," Peres said a week earlier.
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"We are all united in the call to release him immediately. In all my meetings with president Obama and top American government leaders I raised the request to release Pollard and I will continue to do so when I meet with Obama in June." </blockquote>Cosmic Xhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13880746347107372827noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1023083335039003951.post-18911229473167471902011-01-21T23:40:00.001+11:002011-01-21T23:43:12.244+11:00French Minister Attacked by Gaza MobFrench Foreign Minister Michele Alliot-Marie was attacked by a mob in Gaza on Friday morning. Her attackers were enraged over statements she had <span style="font-weight:bold;">allegedly made the day before supporting human rights for kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.</span><br /><br />Alliot-Marie was mobbed as she entered Gaza, with a crowd surrounding her car, pounding on its windows, and throwing shoes at the vehicle. One person jumped on the car. Two children were pushed in front of the first car in Alliot-Marie's convoy, forcing the convoy to a stop while the attack continued.<br /><br />One sign at the rally had a picture of Alliot-Marie with a red cross over her face. Others called on the foreign minister to leave Gaza.<br /><br />Hamas police eventually stopped the furious protest and allowed the convoy to continue. Hamas leaders expressed sympathy with the rioters, saying Alliot-Marie's comments regarding Shalit reflected a “total bias toward Israel.”<br /><br />Alliot-Marie was not hurt in the attack.<br /><br />She had met Thursday with the parents of Gilad Shalit. <span style="font-weight:bold;">The kidnapped soldier, who Hamas claims to have in custody, holds French citizenship.</span> Alliot-Marie assured his parents that “France has not forgotten Shalit,” and said she would insist that the European Union ask Hamas to allow Red Cross representatives to visit Shalit, as required by international law.<br /><br />According to AFP, trying to 'justify' the incident, the Gaza mob may have mistakenly believed that Alliot-Marie termed Shalit's captivity a “war crime.”<br /><br />Shalit's father Noam had called on France to push the EU to condemn the kidnapping as a war crime, and his statement was wrongly attributed to Alliot-Marie on Israel Radio's Arabic-language website, an AFP reporter said. This has not been corroborated.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/141870">source</a>]Cosmic Xhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13880746347107372827noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1023083335039003951.post-56490036325080751052010-10-08T23:07:00.001+11:002010-10-08T23:10:16.056+11:00Gilad Shalit VideoI saw this at <a href="http://muqata.blogspot.com/">The Muqata</a>. Definitely worth watching: <br /><br /><object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Y4Idgv4Km98?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Y4Idgv4Km98?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object><br /><br />Cross posted <a href="http://cosmicx.blogspot.com/2010/10/gilad-shalit-video.html">here</a>.Cosmic Xhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13880746347107372827noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1023083335039003951.post-50149591318816050062009-08-26T18:25:00.002+10:002009-08-26T18:33:17.469+10:00Today Is The Day: Tweet4Shalit! #GiladShalitOn August 28th, Gilad Shalit will celebrate his 23rd birthday. However, instead of celebrating his birthday with family and friends, Gilad Shalit will be 'celebrating' his birthday in terrorist captivity in Gaza, courtesy of the terrorist group Hamas.<p>In order to raise awareness of Gilad Shalit’s story and to get support for his immediate release, various groups have organized “<a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=137996562951" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(153, 102, 51);">Tweet4Shalit</a>”, which will take place from Wednesday, August 26th at midnight until Thursday, August 27th.<br /><br />The goal is to make “Tweet4Shalit” into an event where thousands of people will tweet the hashtag #GiladShalit on Twitter and make Gilad a top 10 Twitter “Trending Topic.”<br /><br />For more information about “Tweet4Shalit,” click<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=137996562951" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(153, 102, 51);">here</a>.</p><p>Please take part in this important event.<br /></p><br /><div align="left"><img alt="Free Gilad Shalit" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB7MaB6nPB-AbLiOSRZfgmhboM-YMyqLF0iIJOX2LGCyfmVhf9kNCOO07av8NNhQPmoWLKcjDnPgomKC0iD9BoGMHh_EWehpdnu-9iKz2WOzypIWYN9ErR3H32Nh1Z5VCl0MfAQIPBZ0Yf/s200/Free-Gilad-Shalit100.jpg" align="left" border="0" height="60" width="100" /><span style="font-size:85%;">Free: <span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://giladshalit.blogspot.com/">Gilad Shalit</a><br />: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Gilad%20Shalit" target="_blank">Gilad Shalit</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Gilad+Israel" target="_blank">Gilad and Israel</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Gilad" target="_blank">Gilad</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Jewish+Soldier+Gilad" target="_blank">Jewish Soldier and Gilad</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Kidnapped+Soldier" target="_blank">Kidnapped Soldier</a> * </span><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Justice" target="_blank">Justice</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Hostage" target="_blank">Hostage</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Kidnapped+Israeli" target="_blank">Kidnapped Israeli</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Gilad+Shalit" target="_blank">Gilad Shalit</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/IDF" target="_blank">IDF</a>* <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Terrorism" target="_blank">Terrorism</a>* <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Jewish">Jewish</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Hamas">Hamas</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Jew">Jew</a></span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1023083335039003951.post-17408692869964270472009-08-14T09:36:00.002+10:002009-08-14T09:39:11.892+10:00August 26: Tweet4Shalit Twitter Campaign!<a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=245983090453&ref=nf">From the Tweet4Shalit Twitter Campaign! Facebook page</a>: <blockquote>On August 28th, 2009, kidnapped Israeli Defense Force soldier Gilad Shalit will celebrate his 23rd birthday.<br /><br />But for the fourth year in a row, it appears he will most likely celebrate this important milestone far away from his home in Israel.<br /><br />Shalit was kidnapped by Hamas in the summer of 2006 and has remained in captivity since.<br /><br />Negotiations for his release are ongoing.<br /><br />‘Tweet4Shalit’ is a virtual grassroots movement inspired by the struggle Gilad Shalit must endure daily as a prisoner of war and as a victim of Islamic extremism.<br /><br />‘Tweet4Shalit’ is a 24 hour Twitter event in which thousands of supporters will sign onto Twitter to tweet the hashtag ‘#GiladShalit’ with the goal of making Gilad a top ten Twitter ‘Trending Topic’ two days before his birth (recognizing that his actual birthday occurs on Shabbos).<br /><br />'Tweet4Shalit' is a single-issue campaign only to raise awareness and is not a political action group.<br /><br />Social networking is a way to inspire change and raise awareness and we plan to do just that. We invite everyone, everywhere to spread the word about ‘Tweet4Shalit’ and join us on Twitter, all day (and all night) on August 26th, 2009 (East Coast Time, U.S.A.)<br /><br />For more information, please visit the Facebook event website for this campaign:<br /><a onmousedown="'return" href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=245983090453" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=245983090453</a><br /><br />The following individuals and organizations are working in support of this project:<br /><br />Jewish Internet Defense Force<br /><a onmousedown="'return" href="http://www.thejidf.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.thejidf.org/</a><br /><br />Radical Commentary<br /><a onmousedown="'return" href="http://radicalcommentary.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://radicalcommentary.blogspot.com/</a><br /><br />David Saranga and the Israeli Consulate in New York<br /><a onmousedown="'return" href="http://www.israelfm.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.israelfm.org/</a><br /><br />Z-Street<br /><a onmousedown="'return" href="http://ziostreet.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://ziostreet.wordpress.com/</a><br /><br />Jewlicious<br /><a onmousedown="'return" href="http://www.jewlicious.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.jewlicious.com/</a><br /><br />International Civil Liberties Alliance<br /><a onmousedown="'return" href="http://www.libertiesalliance.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.libertiesalliance.org/</a></blockquote><a onmousedown="'return" href="http://www.libertiesalliance.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"></a><p></p><p>See also Arutz7 article: <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/132750">Happy Birthday for Gilad Shalit?</a></p><p>by <a href="http://daledamos.blogspot.com/">Daled Amos</a></p><br /><div align="left"><img height="60" alt="Free Gilad Shalit" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB7MaB6nPB-AbLiOSRZfgmhboM-YMyqLF0iIJOX2LGCyfmVhf9kNCOO07av8NNhQPmoWLKcjDnPgomKC0iD9BoGMHh_EWehpdnu-9iKz2WOzypIWYN9ErR3H32Nh1Z5VCl0MfAQIPBZ0Yf/s200/Free-Gilad-Shalit100.jpg" width="100" align="left" border="0" /><span style="font-size:85%;">Free: <span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://giladshalit.blogspot.com/">Gilad Shalit</a><br />: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Gilad%20Shalit" target="_blank">Gilad Shalit</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Gilad+Israel" target="_blank">Gilad and Israel</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Gilad" target="_blank">Gilad</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Jewish+Soldier+Gilad" target="_blank">Jewish Soldier and Gilad</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Kidnapped+Soldier" target="_blank">Kidnapped Soldier</a> * </span><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Justice" target="_blank">Justice</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Hostage" target="_blank">Hostage</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Kidnapped+Israeli" target="_blank">Kidnapped Israeli</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Gilad+Shalit" target="_blank">Gilad Shalit</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/IDF" target="_blank">IDF</a>* <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Terrorism" target="_blank">Terrorism</a>* <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Jewish">Jewish</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Hamas">Hamas</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Jew">Jew</a> * <a href="http://www.technorati.com/tag/Tweet4Shalit" rel="tag">Tweet4Shalit</a></span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1023083335039003951.post-27313195312591938802009-07-17T13:00:00.004+10:002009-07-17T13:10:09.994+10:00Young Israelis sail for Shalit<span style="font-weight: bold;">Some 2,000 youths from kibbutzim throughout country, joined by100 settlers, build rafts using rope, barrels, sheets and sail together on Sea of Galilee with one demand: Bring us information on Gilad, only then deal with question of price.</span><br /><br />Some 2,000 young kibbutz members sailed the waters of the Kinneret Thursday afternoon on homemade rafts in a bid to raise awareness on the status of kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.<br />The kibbutz youth worked throughout the past few days to build some 75 rafts out of rope, planks, and barrels. They painted colorful slogans in support of Gilad Shalit on the rafts' sails, such as: "Give us information about Gilad, if he is alive or dead" and "No one knows his fate and if he needs medication." They pushed their homemade rafts into the water Thursday and sailed across the Kinneret for about four hours.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-m2aee5sePSjhY4Pj_zZ0FeiBJl5rchqKcAkAiNavw21gNYrMFq56E_EZhyphenhyphenUSqer1fAM5QrYPqWB-iWtLqoajGt9VxprxX4JHD3bW6kmKVJd6PjaRqYoB8ApZxVmyMoJvCxUokOzhzng/s1600-h/002_wa.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-m2aee5sePSjhY4Pj_zZ0FeiBJl5rchqKcAkAiNavw21gNYrMFq56E_EZhyphenhyphenUSqer1fAM5QrYPqWB-iWtLqoajGt9VxprxX4JHD3bW6kmKVJd6PjaRqYoB8ApZxVmyMoJvCxUokOzhzng/s400/002_wa.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5359260223364273394" border="0" /></a><br />"We call upon the government of Israel, Hamas, and the Red Cross – Bring us information on Gilad. Only then address the question of price," said Yoel Marshak from the Kibbutz Movement.<br /><br />"We think that even before the question of price is raised, it is critical to receive information on Gilad Shalit as soon as possible. Three years have passed during which no one knows his status, where he is being held, in what conditions, and if he is alive or dead," said Marshak.<br /><br />"The kibbutz youth proved today that only teamwork can overcome the power of nature," Marshak said. He added that each raft required the work of about 25 youngsters.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-jVXEITrmWgMNwbQdxPwUB5aJrqGD3giKWXvxew2AeYzhxaCrdR78TkmMnYE7eBTdpoEVVwqD27j-lDHY8PnnlHeLwXBx-_iyLqodss7_uh7lEQ6A8atWrHjFkUn6RQVVPHTLY3uyhwY/s1600-h/004_wa.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-jVXEITrmWgMNwbQdxPwUB5aJrqGD3giKWXvxew2AeYzhxaCrdR78TkmMnYE7eBTdpoEVVwqD27j-lDHY8PnnlHeLwXBx-_iyLqodss7_uh7lEQ6A8atWrHjFkUn6RQVVPHTLY3uyhwY/s400/004_wa.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5359260228240097170" border="0" /></a><br />Some 100 settler youths from Alon Moreh, Yitzhar, and Itamar joined in the building effort Wednesday night. The two groups also held an open discussion on the topic: "Where is the country headed?"<br /><br />"We explained to them that we seek a solid Jewish majority in the State of Israel without controlling a foreign nation. They explained that they seek to live on the greater Land of Israel," Marshek said.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Gilad Shalit was kidnapped to the Gaza Strip 1,117 days ago.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">By: </span><span class="text14" dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(100, 100, 100); font-style: italic;">Sharon Roffe-Ofir </span> <table style="font-style: italic;" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Source: </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3747928,00.html">YNet News</a>Baleboostehhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11597390014629318009noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1023083335039003951.post-73830675273854054522009-03-23T14:58:00.001+11:002009-03-23T15:00:19.476+11:00The Israeli Media And Gilad ShalitRuthie Blum Leibowitz takes on the uneviable task of confronting the Israeli media in its campaign to push for the government to work for Gilad Shalit's release "at any cost". <a href="http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1237461629106">The problem is what that campaign is doing to the opposing view</a>:<br /><blockquote>the media's campaign has been so comprehensive that all other voices are virtually drowned out. And when some do manage to make a dent, they are not silenced, but rather amplified as right-wing fanatical or - worse - unfeeling.<br /><br />This puts any pundit or politician who disagrees on the defensive. Even those who try to point out that Hamas is also watching Israeli broadcasts, which only serve to strengthen its sense that it need not soften its bargaining position even one iota, have to preface their statements by assuring everybody that, of course, they, too, want to see Gilad home as soon as possible. Even those who attempt to suggest that releasing hundreds of the worst terrorists who are sure to strike again, both by slaughtering innocent Israelis and by kidnapping additional ones for future trades, are forced first to reiterate that they also would be acting as the Schalit family has been if it were their own child in captivity.<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">THE PURPOSE of this kind of emotional blackmail and manipulation on the part of the media is to award them a monopoly on goodness. As with the desire for "peace," they behave as though they have cornered the market on wanting to rescue Schalit - while the rest of us would prefer war and embrace heartlessness. This is as preposterous as it is dangerous - the former because everybody in this country wants both peace and Schalit's safe return, and the latter because it leads to confusion about who the real culprit is.</span> When Prime Minister Ehud Olmert receives more criticism from the Hebrew press about Schalit's predicament than Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, it's time for it to undergo some serious scrutiny and sorely needed soul-searching.[emphasis added]</blockquote><div><a href="http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1237461629106">Read the whole thing</a>.</div><div><br /></div>Then again, Hamas in general is getting a free ride on the issue of Gilad Shalit as well--from bother the West in general and the media & humanitarian groups in particular.<br /><br />[Hat tip: <a href="http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/rubin/59492">Jennifer Rubin</a>]<br /><br /><div align="left"><img alt="Free Gilad Shalit" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB7MaB6nPB-AbLiOSRZfgmhboM-YMyqLF0iIJOX2LGCyfmVhf9kNCOO07av8NNhQPmoWLKcjDnPgomKC0iD9BoGMHh_EWehpdnu-9iKz2WOzypIWYN9ErR3H32Nh1Z5VCl0MfAQIPBZ0Yf/s200/Free-Gilad-Shalit100.jpg" align="left" border="0" height="60" width="100" /><span style="font-size:85%;">Free: <span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://giladshalit.blogspot.com/">Gilad Shalit</a><br />: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Gilad%20Shalit" target="_blank">Gilad Shalit</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Gilad+Israel" target="_blank">Gilad and Israel</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Gilad" target="_blank">Gilad</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Jewish+Soldier+Gilad" target="_blank">Jewish Soldier and Gilad</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Kidnapped+Soldier" target="_blank">Kidnapped Soldier</a> * </span><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Justice" target="_blank">Justice</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Hostage" target="_blank">Hostage</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Kidnapped+Israeli" target="_blank">Kidnapped Israeli</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Gilad+Shalit" target="_blank">Gilad Shalit</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/IDF" target="_blank">IDF</a>* <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Terrorism" target="_blank">Terrorism</a>* <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Jewish">Jewish</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Hamas">Hamas</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Jew">Jew</a></span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1023083335039003951.post-7388331501489155902009-03-13T22:05:00.003+11:002009-03-13T22:10:29.576+11:00Gilad Shalit--At Any Price?<p><span id="fullpost" style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;color:#000066;">When I was first learning about life in Israel, over forty years ago, people talked about how one is expected to bargain. Never pay the first price offered. Pay as little as possible. Walk away from the shop, and they'll call you back with a better and yet better price. It was quite a switch from the very "proper" and inflexible America in the mid-1960's.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;color:#000066;">Israelis seem to have lost the knack. They're (we're) playing all these negotiations like total patsies, total fools.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;color:#000066;">We've given away our precious Land for nothing--Disengagement or a smile and Nobel Peace Prize--Menachem Begin's Camp David.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;color:#000066;">Instead of simply refusing all aid to our enemies and Red Cross visits to the terrorist/enemy Arabs we've captured until our soldiers are returned--alive or dead, we keep offering to free more and more terrorists.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;color:#000066;">Gilad Shalit's family are </span><a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1070475.html"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;color:#000066;">media darlings</span></a><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;color:#000066;"> like the religious parents of </span><a href="http://www.ask.com/bar?q=missing+Israeli+soldiers+sultan&page=1&qsrc=0&ab=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mfa.gov.il%2FMFA%2FMFAArchive%2F1990_1999%2F1996%2F7%2FBACKGROUND%252BON%252BMISSING%252BISRAELI%252BSOLDIERS%252B-%252B21-Jul-96.htm"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;color:#000066;">our soldiers captured in Lebanon</span></a><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;color:#000066;"> could never be. </span></p><p><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;color:#000066;">Yes, Gilad Shalit must be freed, must be returned home to Israel, but what happened to the master Israeli bargainers of old? Maybe we should send one of the veteran stall owners from Machene Yehuda to negotiate. I'm sure he wouldn't do any worse than our politicians, diplomats and media have done.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:verdana;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family:verdana;"></span></p><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span><br /><div align="left"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><img height="60" alt="Free Gilad Shalit" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB7MaB6nPB-AbLiOSRZfgmhboM-YMyqLF0iIJOX2LGCyfmVhf9kNCOO07av8NNhQPmoWLKcjDnPgomKC0iD9BoGMHh_EWehpdnu-9iKz2WOzypIWYN9ErR3H32Nh1Z5VCl0MfAQIPBZ0Yf/s200/Free-Gilad-Shalit100.jpg" width="100" align="left" border="0" /></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Free: </span><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://giladshalit.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Gilad Shalit</span></a><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br />: </span><a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Gilad%20Shalit" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Gilad Shalit</span></a><span style="font-family:verdana;"> * </span><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Gilad+Israel" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Gilad and Israel</span></a><span style="font-family:verdana;"> * </span><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Gilad" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Gilad</span></a><span style="font-family:verdana;"> * </span><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Jewish+Soldier+Gilad" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Jewish Soldier and Gilad</span></a><span style="font-family:verdana;"> * </span><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Kidnapped+Soldier" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Kidnapped Soldier</span></a><span style="font-family:verdana;"> * </span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Justice" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Justice</span></a><span style="font-family:verdana;"> * </span><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Hostage" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Hostage</span></a><span style="font-family:verdana;"> * </span><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Kidnapped+Israeli" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Kidnapped Israeli</span></a><span style="font-family:verdana;"> * </span><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Gilad+Shalit" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Gilad Shalit</span></a><span style="font-family:verdana;"> * </span><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/IDF" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:verdana;">IDF</span></a><span style="font-family:verdana;">* </span><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Terrorism" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Terrorism</span></a><span style="font-family:verdana;">* </span><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Jewish"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Jewish</span></a><span style="font-family:verdana;"> * </span><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Hamas"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Hamas</span></a><span style="font-family:verdana;"> * </span><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Jew"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Jew</span></a></span></div></span><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span><br /><span id="fullpost"></span>Batyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09402874037427009327noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1023083335039003951.post-80785054818724131532009-03-13T20:53:00.000+11:002009-03-13T20:55:08.495+11:00The Shalit manipulationThe Israeli MSM is currently engaged in a shameless campaign to free Gil'ad Shalit at any price.<br /><span id="fullpost"><br /> <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3685738,00.html">Here's a courageous article</a> from Yaron Dekel, Channel 1’s political commentator, where he takes the media to task. A snippet:<blockquote>They forgot the victims, and the counter protest tent of those opposed to a deal was dismantled within 24 hours.<br /> <br />It’s also difficult to find reports about the ramifications of this deal. Reports that not only ask what the terrorists could do once they are be released, but also a wider discussion about the impact this deal will have on IDF operations in the future, on the combat doctrine and efforts to sacrifice lives rather than fall into captivity, and about the issue of capturing terrorists alive in order to try them in Israel, knowing that the verdict is temporary until the next abduction.<br /> <br />The media has chosen to serve the Shalit family and not the public interest. But good journalism is tested in difficult times, not easy times.<br /> <br />It’s tested in its ability to stimulate a debate, to protest, to fuel an argument, raise doubts and create cracks in a monolithic public opinion. The same goes for peace times as in times of war. Journalism has a decisive role to play in a democratic society. Its role is not to move hearts. </blockquote><br /><br />(Cross posted on <a href="http://cosmicx.blogspot.com/2009/03/shalit-manipulation.html">Cosmic X in Jerusalem</a>)<br /><div align="left"><img alt="Free Gilad Shalit" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB7MaB6nPB-AbLiOSRZfgmhboM-YMyqLF0iIJOX2LGCyfmVhf9kNCOO07av8NNhQPmoWLKcjDnPgomKC0iD9BoGMHh_EWehpdnu-9iKz2WOzypIWYN9ErR3H32Nh1Z5VCl0MfAQIPBZ0Yf/s200/Free-Gilad-Shalit100.jpg" align="left" border="0" height="60" width="100" /><span style="font-size:85%;">Free: <span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://giladshalit.blogspot.com/">Gilad Shalit</a><br />: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Gilad%20Shalit" target="_blank">Gilad Shalit</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Gilad+Israel" target="_blank">Gilad and Israel</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Gilad" target="_blank">Gilad</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Jewish+Soldier+Gilad" target="_blank">Jewish Soldier and Gilad</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Kidnapped+Soldier" target="_blank">Kidnapped Soldier</a> * </span><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Justice" target="_blank">Justice</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Hostage" target="_blank">Hostage</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Kidnapped+Israeli" target="_blank">Kidnapped Israeli</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Gilad+Shalit" target="_blank">Gilad Shalit</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/IDF" target="_blank">IDF</a>* <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Terrorism" target="_blank">Terrorism</a>* <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Jewish">Jewish</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Hamas">Hamas</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Jew">Jew</a></span></div></span>Cosmic Xhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13880746347107372827noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1023083335039003951.post-38343017216300176082009-02-18T02:59:00.001+11:002009-02-18T03:02:35.121+11:00Quote of the DayWith regards to releasing terrorists<br /><span id="fullpost"><br />With regards to releasing terrorists to obtain the <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3673167,00.html">release of Gilad Shalit</a>:<blockquote>Rami Igra, former head of the Mossad's captive and MIA department who also attended the meeting, spoke of past prisoner exchange deals Israel has agreed to: "We need to keep a moral view for the long run. <span style="font-weight:bold;">We have to envision those who may be killed because of the release to terrorists and not just the person held in Gaza right now.</span>" </blockquote><br /><br />Cross posted <a href="http://cosmicx.blogspot.com/2009/02/quote-of-day.html">here</a>. <br /><div align="left"><img alt="Free Gilad Shalit" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB7MaB6nPB-AbLiOSRZfgmhboM-YMyqLF0iIJOX2LGCyfmVhf9kNCOO07av8NNhQPmoWLKcjDnPgomKC0iD9BoGMHh_EWehpdnu-9iKz2WOzypIWYN9ErR3H32Nh1Z5VCl0MfAQIPBZ0Yf/s200/Free-Gilad-Shalit100.jpg" align="left" border="0" height="60" width="100" /><span style="font-size:85%;">Free: <span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://giladshalit.blogspot.com/">Gilad Shalit</a><br />: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Gilad%20Shalit" target="_blank">Gilad Shalit</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Gilad+Israel" target="_blank">Gilad and Israel</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Gilad" target="_blank">Gilad</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Jewish+Soldier+Gilad" target="_blank">Jewish Soldier and Gilad</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Kidnapped+Soldier" target="_blank">Kidnapped Soldier</a> * </span><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Justice" target="_blank">Justice</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Hostage" target="_blank">Hostage</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Kidnapped+Israeli" target="_blank">Kidnapped Israeli</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Gilad+Shalit" target="_blank">Gilad Shalit</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/IDF" target="_blank">IDF</a>* <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Terrorism" target="_blank">Terrorism</a>* <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Jewish">Jewish</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Hamas">Hamas</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Jew">Jew</a></span></div></span>Cosmic Xhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13880746347107372827noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1023083335039003951.post-7437373583005436512008-12-12T15:32:00.000+11:002008-12-12T15:33:33.550+11:00Gilad Shalit--Going On 900 Days<a href="http://www.honestreporting.com/">HonestReporting</a>'s blog <a href="http://backspin.typepad.com/backspin/2008/12/900-days.html">Backspin Media notes</a>:<br /><blockquote><p>The day after the world celebrated the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights with <a href="http://www.un.org/events/humanrights/udhr60/calendar.shtml">pomp</a> and <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1045653.html">hot air</a>, Israelis mark Gilad Shalit's 900th day in captivity.</p><p></p><p>At least the <a href="http://www.icrc.org/web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/html/israel-interview-111208?opendocument">Red Cross</a> noticed.</p></blockquote>The Red Cross site explains what the Red Cross has done so far and is trying to do--which basically boils down to trying to see Gilad Shalit and speak to him in private:<div><blockquote>We are pursuing dialogue with all those concerned, as we believe that is essential for achieving progress. We have to talk to those who hold a person's fate in their hands in order to be able to help that person.</blockquote><div>The Red Cross is sincere, but still--I thought this was a bit jarring:<br /></div><div><blockquote>There are limits to what we can do and to what international humanitarian law entitles us to do when it comes to <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; ">visiting people in detention</span> or to finding out what happened to <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; ">people who go missing in an armed conflict</span>. [emphasis added]</blockquote>Neither of these 2 descriptions fit the current circumstances. Shalit is neither in detention nor did he <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; ">go missing</span>. He was kidnapped by terrorists. Despite the Red Cross's best motives, their efforts thus far seem to have done nothing more than to legitimize Hamas and what they have done by equating their actions with those of a party to an armed conflict. </div><div><br /></div><div>If indeed the situation was one of armed conflict, why is Israel put under constant pressure to act as if there was no such conflict and open up its borders and indiscriminately allow unfettered access to Palestinian Arabs?</div><div><br /></div><div>Not surprisingly, the Red Cross refuses to call Hamas by what they are and is reduced to <br />"pursuing dialogue."</div></div><span id="fullpost"><br /><div align="left"><img alt="Free Gilad Shalit" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB7MaB6nPB-AbLiOSRZfgmhboM-YMyqLF0iIJOX2LGCyfmVhf9kNCOO07av8NNhQPmoWLKcjDnPgomKC0iD9BoGMHh_EWehpdnu-9iKz2WOzypIWYN9ErR3H32Nh1Z5VCl0MfAQIPBZ0Yf/s200/Free-Gilad-Shalit100.jpg" align="left" border="0" height="60" width="100" /><span style="font-size:85%;">Free: <span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://giladshalit.blogspot.com/">Gilad Shalit</a><br />: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Gilad%20Shalit" target="_blank">Gilad Shalit</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Gilad+Israel" target="_blank">Gilad and Israel</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Gilad" target="_blank">Gilad</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Jewish+Soldier+Gilad" target="_blank">Jewish Soldier and Gilad</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Kidnapped+Soldier" target="_blank">Kidnapped Soldier</a> * </span><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Justice" target="_blank">Justice</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Hostage" target="_blank">Hostage</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Kidnapped+Israeli" target="_blank">Kidnapped Israeli</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Gilad+Shalit" target="_blank">Gilad Shalit</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/IDF" target="_blank">IDF</a>* <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Terrorism" target="_blank">Terrorism</a>* <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Jewish">Jewish</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Hamas">Hamas</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Jew">Jew</a></span></span></div></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1023083335039003951.post-10410658079948033652008-10-28T16:39:00.003+11:002008-11-13T15:46:15.142+11:00Debate Over Gilad Shalit Continues<a href="http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/category/contentions?author_name=rosner">Shmuel Rosner has a post on Contentions</a> about the ongoing debate in Israel about Gilad Shalit--about what the Israeli public itself can do:<blockquote>Simply put: there are those who believe that Israelis should have demonstrations and rallies demanding the release of Schalit, captured by a Hamas faction in Gaza three years ago. And there are those saying that a public outcry makes it more difficult for the government to deal successfully with this delicate topic.</blockquote>Deputy Defense Minister Matan Vilnai and Ehud Barak have come out saying that public rallies will only encourage Hamas to raise their demands in exchange for Shalit's release. On the other hand, former Shin-Bet head Ami Ayalon spoke at one of those rallies, emphasizing the importance of telling the government what they think and that the same government that sent Shalit into battle must also bring him own.<br /><br />In the aftermath of the Samir Kuntar deal, the situation is even more delicate.<br /><br />Rosner concludes:<br /><blockquote>Strategic considerations aside, the public is sick and tired of hearing excuses as to why Shalit is still in Gaza. Since it has no way of demonstrating effectively against Hamas, it goes after the Israeli government. Problematic–but also encouraging, because means that Israelis still care for the soldiers they send to battle, that there’s still a sense of responsibility for their fate.</blockquote>The question now is how to <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">act</span> responsibly.<br /><br /><div align="left"><img alt="Free Gilad Shalit" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB7MaB6nPB-AbLiOSRZfgmhboM-YMyqLF0iIJOX2LGCyfmVhf9kNCOO07av8NNhQPmoWLKcjDnPgomKC0iD9BoGMHh_EWehpdnu-9iKz2WOzypIWYN9ErR3H32Nh1Z5VCl0MfAQIPBZ0Yf/s200/Free-Gilad-Shalit100.jpg" align="left" border="0" height="60" width="100" /><span style="font-size:85%;">Free: <span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://giladshalit.blogspot.com/">Gilad Shalit</a><br />: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Gilad%20Shalit" target="_blank">Gilad Shalit</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Gilad+Israel" target="_blank">Gilad and Israel</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Gilad" target="_blank">Gilad</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Jewish+Soldier+Gilad" target="_blank">Jewish Soldier and Gilad</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Kidnapped+Soldier" target="_blank">Kidnapped Soldier</a> * </span><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Justice" target="_blank">Justice</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Hostage" target="_blank">Hostage</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Kidnapped+Israeli" target="_blank">Kidnapped Israeli</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Gilad+Shalit" target="_blank">Gilad Shalit</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/IDF" target="_blank">IDF</a>* <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Terrorism" target="_blank">Terrorism</a>* <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Jewish">Jewish</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Hamas">Hamas</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Jew">Jew</a></span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1023083335039003951.post-72059509795070891172008-08-25T21:54:00.001+10:002008-11-13T15:46:15.231+11:00A poem for Gilad Shalit<span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Here is a poem I wrote for Gilad:</span><br /><br /></span><div align="left"><br />Gilad, please don't cry tonight<br /><br />The heart of a forlorn nation<br /><br />beats inside your chest<br /><br />I wait with you to see the light<br /><br />while brothers are laid to rest<br /><br /><br /><br />I just want to see your face again<br /><br />I only dream to see you smile<br /><br />What I'd give to enter that lion's den<br /><br />and just hold your hand a while</div><br /><p style="margin: 0cm 7.5pt 0pt; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; vertical-align: top; direction: ltr; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana;">Thanks,</span></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 7.5pt 0pt; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; vertical-align: top; direction: ltr; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana;">Anat Sivan, Tel Aviv</span></p><br /><span id="fullpost"><br /><div align="left"><img alt="Free Gilad Shalit" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB7MaB6nPB-AbLiOSRZfgmhboM-YMyqLF0iIJOX2LGCyfmVhf9kNCOO07av8NNhQPmoWLKcjDnPgomKC0iD9BoGMHh_EWehpdnu-9iKz2WOzypIWYN9ErR3H32Nh1Z5VCl0MfAQIPBZ0Yf/s200/Free-Gilad-Shalit100.jpg" align="left" border="0" height="60" width="100" /><span style="font-size:85%;">Free: <span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://giladshalit.blogspot.com/">Gilad Shalit</a><br />: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Gilad%20Shalit" target="_blank">Gilad Shalit</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Gilad+Israel" target="_blank">Gilad and Israel</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Gilad" target="_blank">Gilad</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Jewish+Soldier+Gilad" target="_blank">Jewish Soldier and Gilad</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Kidnapped+Soldier" target="_blank">Kidnapped Soldier</a> * </span><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Justice" target="_blank">Justice</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Hostage" target="_blank">Hostage</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Kidnapped+Israeli" target="_blank">Kidnapped Israeli</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Gilad+Shalit" target="_blank">Gilad Shalit</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/IDF" target="_blank">IDF</a>* <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Terrorism" target="_blank">Terrorism</a>* <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Jewish">Jewish</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Hamas">Hamas</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Jew">Jew</a></span></span></div></span>Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08153928358820540823noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1023083335039003951.post-60153339762322111892008-08-25T12:25:00.000+10:002008-11-13T15:46:15.362+11:00IDF Warns of Increased Alerts of Plans to Abduct SoldiersVia <a href="http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1219218612841&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull">JPost</a>: <blockquote><p>Security forces are warning of increased alerts on terrorist groups’ plans to kidnap soldiers, Channel 2 reported Thursday.</p> <p>IDF military police have established a special team that carries out mock abductions, and in the past week alone arrested 25 soldiers caught hitchhiking, in violation of military orders.</p> <p>Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi has said in internal meetings that he would rather explain to the soldiers’ parents why their children were in jail than explain why they had fallen captive. </p></blockquote><span id="fullpost"><br /><br /><div align="left"><img alt="Free Gilad Shalit" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB7MaB6nPB-AbLiOSRZfgmhboM-YMyqLF0iIJOX2LGCyfmVhf9kNCOO07av8NNhQPmoWLKcjDnPgomKC0iD9BoGMHh_EWehpdnu-9iKz2WOzypIWYN9ErR3H32Nh1Z5VCl0MfAQIPBZ0Yf/s200/Free-Gilad-Shalit100.jpg" align="left" border="0" width="100" height="60" /><span style="font-size:85%;">Free: <span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://giladshalit.blogspot.com/">Gilad Shalit</a><br />: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Gilad%20Shalit" target="_blank">Gilad Shalit</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Gilad+Israel" target="_blank">Gilad and Israel</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Gilad" target="_blank">Gilad</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Jewish+Soldier+Gilad" target="_blank">Jewish Soldier and Gilad</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Kidnapped+Soldier" target="_blank">Kidnapped Soldier</a> * </span><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Justice" target="_blank">Justice</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Hostage" target="_blank">Hostage</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Kidnapped+Israeli" target="_blank">Kidnapped Israeli</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Gilad+Shalit" target="_blank">Gilad Shalit</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/IDF" target="_blank">IDF</a>* <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Terrorism" target="_blank">Terrorism</a>* <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Jewish">Jewish</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Hamas">Hamas</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Jew">Jew</a></span></span></div></span>Crossposted on <a href="http://smoothstoneblog.com/?p=321">Smooth Stone</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1023083335039003951.post-45126215622006444612008-08-24T20:05:00.003+10:002008-11-13T15:46:15.479+11:00Fake recording of Gilad Schalit<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfSzTy6AtKPMYyOXjVQnwIGMK6-hLY9WVeTjpH0Zrql0O2kZ7EIr8orqgZ6K35T01G5w0TBBimHQqPjdnGxReAhcbLXEMouhKxFTJR6tBxLu5h-eyG5CGKPfEZK5WU3M9LLsq0B4HC6aEk/s1600-h/Gilad-shalit-17-200x240.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfSzTy6AtKPMYyOXjVQnwIGMK6-hLY9WVeTjpH0Zrql0O2kZ7EIr8orqgZ6K35T01G5w0TBBimHQqPjdnGxReAhcbLXEMouhKxFTJR6tBxLu5h-eyG5CGKPfEZK5WU3M9LLsq0B4HC6aEk/s320/Gilad-shalit-17-200x240.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5238025769592310226" /></a><br />The Jerusalem post has published an article <a href="http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1219218628709&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull">Fake Schalit tape circulated</a>, which is a mock recording of Gilad Schalit talking.<br />When you consider the content of the tape reported by JPost it apparently states;<br /><span class="lead"><blockquote> "I am the kidnapped soldier Gilad, son of Aviva and Noam Schalit. You are invited to celebrate with me the third anniversary of my captivity by Hamas, in the last place where I was still a free man."</blockquote></span>It soon becomes clear the tape is not authentic.<br /><span id="fullpost">The Jerusalem Post article in full is here:<br /></span><a href="http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1219218628709&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull">Fake Schalit tape circulated</a><br /><span id="fullpost"><br /><br /><div align="left"><img alt="Free Gilad Shalit" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB7MaB6nPB-AbLiOSRZfgmhboM-YMyqLF0iIJOX2LGCyfmVhf9kNCOO07av8NNhQPmoWLKcjDnPgomKC0iD9BoGMHh_EWehpdnu-9iKz2WOzypIWYN9ErR3H32Nh1Z5VCl0MfAQIPBZ0Yf/s200/Free-Gilad-Shalit100.jpg" align="left" border="0" height="60" width="100" /><span style="font-size:85%;">Free: <span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://giladshalit.blogspot.com/">Gilad Shalit</a><br />: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Gilad%20Shalit" target="_blank">Gilad Shalit</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Gilad+Israel" target="_blank">Gilad and Israel</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Gilad" target="_blank">Gilad</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Jewish+Soldier+Gilad" target="_blank">Jewish Soldier and Gilad</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Kidnapped+Soldier" target="_blank">Kidnapped Soldier</a> * </span><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Justice" target="_blank">Justice</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Hostage" target="_blank">Hostage</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Kidnapped+Israeli" target="_blank">Kidnapped Israeli</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Gilad+Shalit" target="_blank">Gilad Shalit</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/IDF" target="_blank">IDF</a>* <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Terrorism" target="_blank">Terrorism</a>* <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Jewish">Jewish</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Hamas">Hamas</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Jew">Jew</a></span></span></div></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1023083335039003951.post-39670730466347443722008-06-24T13:14:00.002+10:002008-11-13T15:46:15.486+11:00Gilad Shalit’s Book Now on YouTube<a href="http://www.isrealli.org/shalit/">From the IsRealli blog</a>:<br /><blockquote>Gilad Shalit’s book, When the Shark and the Fish First Met, now appears on YouTube to mark two years since he was kidnapped.<br /><br />The Consulate General of Israel filmed five fifth-grade students from New York [Bronx Middle School] reading the story that Shalit wrote when he, too, was eleven years old. “Gilad was a boy our age when he wrote this story; if only we could write something so significant at this age. Today, no one knows where he is and he probably misses his parents,” said one of the students. “If the shark and fish can make peace, why can’t people?”<br /><br /><a href="http://www.isrealli.org/extra/gilad.pdf">Click here to download</a> (PDF) information about Shalit and the book.</blockquote>You can also <a href="http://habanim.org/en/gilad_story_en.html">download the story in Hebrew and in translation here</a>.<br /><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/e0rb_SmjUKc&hl=en"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/e0rb_SmjUKc&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="344" width="425"></embed></object><br /><br /><div align="left"><img alt="Free Gilad Shalit" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB7MaB6nPB-AbLiOSRZfgmhboM-YMyqLF0iIJOX2LGCyfmVhf9kNCOO07av8NNhQPmoWLKcjDnPgomKC0iD9BoGMHh_EWehpdnu-9iKz2WOzypIWYN9ErR3H32Nh1Z5VCl0MfAQIPBZ0Yf/s200/Free-Gilad-Shalit100.jpg" align="left" border="0" height="60" width="100" /><span style="font-size:85%;">Free: <span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://giladshalit.blogspot.com/">Gilad Shalit</a><br />: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Gilad%20Shalit" target="_blank">Gilad Shalit</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Gilad+Israel" target="_blank">Gilad and Israel</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Gilad" target="_blank">Gilad</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Jewish+Soldier+Gilad" target="_blank">Jewish Soldier and Gilad</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Kidnapped+Soldier" target="_blank">Kidnapped Soldier</a> * </span><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Justice" target="_blank">Justice</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Hostage" target="_blank">Hostage</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Kidnapped+Israeli" target="_blank">Kidnapped Israeli</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Gilad+Shalit" target="_blank">Gilad Shalit</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/IDF" target="_blank">IDF</a>* <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Terrorism" target="_blank">Terrorism</a>* <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Jewish">Jewish</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Hamas">Hamas</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Jew">Jew</a></span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1023083335039003951.post-4386294747886890002008-06-21T03:01:00.001+10:002008-11-13T15:46:15.541+11:00The Calm Before The Storm: The Israeli Consulate On The TruceFrom an email from the Israeli Consulate in NY.<br /><br />All very matter-of-factly.<br /><br />I like this part:<br /><blockquote><span style="font-weight: bold;">Palestinian terrorist organizations must</span>:<br /><br />o Halt all fire and terrorist activity<br />o End their buildup of arms<br />o Cease smuggling from Egypt<br /></blockquote>In other words: Hamas must give up terrorism.<br /><span id="fullpost"><br />Isn't that kind of like asking the current Israeli government to ask responsibly?<br /><div> <p align="justify"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 153);font-family:Palatino Linotype;font-size:130%;" ></span></p><blockquote><p align="justify"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 153);font-family:Palatino Linotype;font-size:130%;" >Details of the "State of Calm" in Gaza</span><br /></p><p>After a protracted period of negotiations between Egypt and representatives of Israel and <span>Hamas</span>, it was announced that a period of calm would be instituted between Israel and the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip beginning at 6:00 A.M. on Thursday, 19 June.<span> </span>Following are some of the major points comprising this agreement:</p> <ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc"><li>The institution of "calm" applies only to the Gaza Strip and not to West Bank areas.<span> </span>Thus, while Israel's security forces will refrain from operations in the Gaza Strip, they will continue to undertake necessary operations in the West Bank.</li><li>Palestinian terrorist organizations must:</li><ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="circle"><li>Halt all fire and terrorist activity</li><li>End their buildup of arms</li><li>Cease smuggling from Egypt</li></ul><li>While the above points are effective immediately with the beginning of the "calm," opening the crossings to Gaza will be implemented gradually after successive periods of calm.</li><ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="circle"><li>After 3 days, Israel will open the <span>Karni</span> and <span>Sufa</span> crossings for basic commodities</li><li>One week later, Israel will allow for a larger number of commodities to enter the Gaza Strip, excepting those used for weapons manufacturing</li><li>After an additional week, talks will be held about opening the <span>Rafah</span> crossing to Egypt</li></ul><li>The freedom of <span>Gilad</span> <span>Shalit</span>, kidnapped two years ago, is an integral part of the "state of calm."<span> </span>According to Foreign Minister <span>Livni</span>, releasing <span>Shalit</span> is a necessary step if <span>Hamas</span> wants to achieve further gains.</li><li>Furthermore, Israel will continue to monitor the situation closely to ensure that all parties adhere to their obligations.<span> </span><span>Hamas</span> will bear responsibility for any terrorist act by any organization and should be prepared to accept the consequences of such actions.</li></ul> <p>While the State of Israel has every desire to see this "lull" develop into a period of sustained calm, she places primary significance on the safety and security of her citizens.<span> </span>Should the "calm" collapse, Israel will take alternate measures to address the new situation.<span> </span></p> <p>Information for this report comes from the <a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001qWvhE7n9rNU-1VU7uYxvUcOEkrlBat9HFRPBtN68DqO26mxaYb9EcY-Vdbr27qHKh5xlFasUY5c-VkmTiaIqLRTNhA_2-rQt0_sUyp-n6xlwFbcIsznZkA==" shape="rect" target="_blank">Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs</a> and the <a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001qWvhE7n9rNVIwRQxirOCMvUKi0LfFlHlw4yEhqZbA7ZKeGwE8AIbL3axutf9NTZ8zVTjpWU8j70kdlFKTlfw_i1IXJH0P3vgiI59gHG_CKsLJ0TGpzkml1iGjh4OlyJ1pQlvH1Olru4Q5Pg_lbYcy2wyX-0h4F06aXuL0gDxyTDiQiz_JJtU1bFjNi1FDvcsBVXikYcxVkc=" shape="rect" target="_blank">Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center</a>.</p></blockquote><p></p> </div>Better to check out Caroline Glick's <a href="http://www.jpost.com//servlet/Satellite?cid=1213794285097&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull">Israel's Darkest Week</a>:<br /><blockquote><span class="lead">The Olmert-Livni-Barak-Yishai government's liquidation sale of Israel's strategic assets opened officially this week. Iran's proxies have pounced on the merchandise. </span></blockquote><a href="http://www.jpost.com//servlet/Satellite?cid=1213794285097&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull">Read the whole thing</a>.<br /><br />One concern is the lack of clarity on how Gilad Shalit fits in.<br /><br />According to the above, Shalit is "integral" to all of this and after receiving concessions, Hamas must release Shalit to get more.<br /><a href="http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/pollak/12251"><br />Noah Pollak</a>, however, writes that Olmert:<br /><blockquote>has agreed to a <em>tahdiyya</em> with Hamas, but notably <a href="http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/994085.html" target="_blank">without the release of Gilad Shalit<span class="__mozilla-findbar-search" style="padding: 0pt; background-color: yellow; display: inline;font-size:inherit;color:black;" ></span></a>, which up until this moment had been the central (and non-negotiable) condition of any such agreement. </blockquote>Likewise, <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3557573,00.html">according to YnetNews.com</a>:<br /><span class="text14"><span><blockquote>"If Gilad Shalit is not released, Rafah crossing does not open," said Senior Defense Ministry Official Amos Gilad during an interview with Ynet on Wednesday night. Gilad is currently representing <span class="bluelink">Israel </span>in talks negotiating the ceasefire with <span class="bluelink">Hamas</span><a linkindex="19" class="bluelink" href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3377113,00.html" onmouseover="this.href=unescape(this.href)" target="_blank"> </a>and the other Gazan terror organizations in Egypt.<br /><br />Gilad's statement validated an earlier statement made by the kidnapped soldier's father, Noam Shalit, according to which Israel's government had neglected his son during the negotiations of a truce.</blockquote></span></span>But in the same article, Gilad says:<br /><blockquote><span class="text14"><span>"I think the ceasefire is the only way we may be able to bring about Shalit's release," he said, adding that the issue had been prioritized during his talks with Egyptian Intelligence Chief Omar Suleiman in Cairo on Tuesday.<br /><br />"During the last discussion we set aside a third of the time allotted to speak about Shalit, and <span style="font-weight: bold;">we were adamant in demanding that his release be part of the agreement</span>," Gilad said. </span></span></blockquote>Gilad Shalit may be part of the agreement, but only conditionally. Shalit's release has not been secured. First Hamas gets the recognition it wants and enough goodies so it can brag that just like The Disengagement, once again Hamas 'resistance' has forced Israel's hand. Then Hamas can haggle over releasing Shalit--just as it has till now.<br /><br />And according to Glick:<br /><br />The government agreed to the "cease-fire" with Hamas without securing Gilad Schalit's release from captivity. Rather than acknowledge that they have likely signed his death warrant, the government insists that it's not done capitulating. <span style="font-weight: bold;">It will begin begging Hamas to accept hundreds of Palestinian murderers jailed in Israeli prisons in exchange for Schalit next Tuesday</span>.<br /><br />One more reason why the truce is a cruel joke.<br /><br />by <a href="http://daledamos.blogspot.com/">Daled Amos</a><br /><br /><div align="left"><img alt="Free Gilad Shalit" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB7MaB6nPB-AbLiOSRZfgmhboM-YMyqLF0iIJOX2LGCyfmVhf9kNCOO07av8NNhQPmoWLKcjDnPgomKC0iD9BoGMHh_EWehpdnu-9iKz2WOzypIWYN9ErR3H32Nh1Z5VCl0MfAQIPBZ0Yf/s200/Free-Gilad-Shalit100.jpg" width="100" align="left" border="0" height="60" /><span style="font-size:85%;">Free: <span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://giladshalit.blogspot.com/">Gilad Shalit</a><br />: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Gilad%20Shalit" target="_blank">Gilad Shalit</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Gilad+Israel" target="_blank">Gilad and Israel</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Gilad" target="_blank">Gilad</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Jewish+Soldier+Gilad" target="_blank">Jewish Soldier and Gilad</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Kidnapped+Soldier" target="_blank">Kidnapped Soldier</a> * </span><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Justice" target="_blank">Justice</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Hostage" target="_blank">Hostage</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Kidnapped+Israeli" target="_blank">Kidnapped Israeli</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Gilad+Shalit" target="_blank">Gilad Shalit</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/IDF" target="_blank">IDF</a>* <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Terrorism" target="_blank">Terrorism</a>* <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Jewish">Jewish</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Hamas">Hamas</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Jew">Jew</a></span></span></div></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1023083335039003951.post-19784513611859133782008-02-17T17:31:00.002+11:002008-11-13T15:46:15.547+11:00Despite Report, 'Assume Goldwasser, Regev Alive'<span style="font-size:85%;">by Hana Levi Julian</span><br /><br />(IsraelNN.com) A report Saturday by the German <em>Der Spiegel</em> magazine that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is preparing to announce that kidnapped IDF reservists Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev are dead may be premature.A senior political source in Jerusalem quoted by <em>Ynet</em> said “as long as there is no unequivocal information regarding their condition, Israel will continue to engage in negotiations based on the assumption they are alive.”<br /><br />News of the <em>Der Spiegel</em> report was splayed across Israeli news outlets by Saturday night, with headlines trumpeting the probability of an imminent announcement by the prime minister that Israeli intelligence has concluded the two reservists are dead.<br /><span id="fullpost"><br />Olmert was in Germany for talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel last week to discuss the matter. Germany has been deeply involved in mediating talks with Hizbullah about Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev, who were kidnapped in July 2006 by the group’s operatives in a cross-border attack that touched off the Second Lebanon War.<br /><br />Goldwasser’s wife Karnit, who often comments on reports in the news about her husband and his fellow reservist, said she had not received any notification from the Prime Minister’s Office.<br /><br />“Usually, when there are serious developments, the Prime Minister calls me or the family,” said Goldwasser. “I have not received any new notification from the [PMO] and so I have no intention of commenting on the various reports by foreign media outlets.”<br /><strong>Second Report by German Newspaper that Goldwasser and Regev are Dead</strong><br /><em>Der Spiegel</em> reported last October in a feature article about the unnamed German official mediating talks between Israel and Hizbullah for the soldiers’ release that both soldiers were dead. The report added that Israeli officials also believe they were killed.<br /><br />Goldwasser’s wife and Regev’s brother Benny spoke about her husband and his fellow reservist last month in a video hookup with Jewish communities in London, Singapore and Hong. Goldwasser acknowledged that she is preparing for the possibility that Ehud is no longer alive. While not saying he won’t return home at all, she commented that “in the meantime, a year and a half later, I am getting along without Udi.”<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">References:</span><br />Directly from Arutz Sheva:<br /><a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/125274">Israel: Despite Report, 'Assume Goldwasser, Regev Alive'</a><br /><br /><div align="left"><img alt="Free Gilad Shalit" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB7MaB6nPB-AbLiOSRZfgmhboM-YMyqLF0iIJOX2LGCyfmVhf9kNCOO07av8NNhQPmoWLKcjDnPgomKC0iD9BoGMHh_EWehpdnu-9iKz2WOzypIWYN9ErR3H32Nh1Z5VCl0MfAQIPBZ0Yf/s200/Free-Gilad-Shalit100.jpg" align="left" border="0" height="60" width="100" /><span style="font-size:85%;">Free: <span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://giladshalit.blogspot.com/">Gilad Shalit</a><br />: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Gilad%20Shalit" target="_blank">Gilad Shalit</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Gilad+Israel" target="_blank">Gilad and Israel</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Gilad" target="_blank">Gilad</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Jewish+Soldier+Gilad" target="_blank">Jewish Soldier and Gilad</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Kidnapped+Soldier" target="_blank">Kidnapped Soldier</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Ehud Goldwasser" target="_blank">Ehud Goldwasser</a> *<a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Eldad Regev" target="_blank">Eldad Regev</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Justice" target="_blank">Justice</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Hostage" target="_blank">Hostage</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Kidnapped+Israeli" target="_blank">Kidnapped Israeli</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Gilad+Shalit" target="_blank">Gilad Shalit</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/IDF" target="_blank">IDF</a>* <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Terrorism" target="_blank">Terrorism</a>* <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Jewish">Jewish</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Hamas">Hamas</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Jew">Jew</a></span></span></div></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1023083335039003951.post-62980845628647706532008-02-06T15:17:00.000+11:002008-11-13T15:46:15.628+11:00A Sign of Life from Gilad Shalit Received by Israel<span style="font-size:85%;">(<span style="font-style: italic;">From IsraelNN.com</span>) </span><br />Israel has received a sign of life from kidnapped IDF Corporal Gilad Shalit, according to the daily Hebrew newspaper Maariv.<br /><br />Egyptian officials involved in talks between Israel and the Hamas terrorist organization said the letter was checked and found to be authentic. It was passed to Shalit’s family, said the source.<br /><br />Shalit was kidnapped in June 2006 by Hamas terrorists, the same organization whose paramilitia operatives one year later wrested control over Gaza from the rival Fatah faction that currently leading the Palestinian Authority.<br /><br />The sources said the letter intensified efforts to negotiate with Hamas, which has demanded the release of thousands of terrorists, in exchange for Shalit’s freedom. Many of the requested terrorists were directly involved in the murders of Israeli citizens, and have thus been classified as having "blood on their hands."<br /><br /><span id="fullpost"><br />But Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has decided to relax the standards by which terrorists are categorized as having such bloody hands. Thereby Olmert can broaden the eligibility for release among the thousands of PA terrorists held in Israeli jails, according to the Jerusalem Post.<br /><br />Olmert met Sunday to discuss his decision with Defense Minister Ehud Barak, Public Security Minister and former head of the General Security Service (Shin Bet) Avi Dichter, former Shin Bet director Ami Ayalon, Environment Minister and former deputy Shin Bet head Gideon Ezra, Vice Premier Chaim Ramon, Justice Minister Daniel Friedmann and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni.<br /><br />The current definition of the term includes terrorists who have masterminded, ordered and organized deadly attacks on Israeli citizens as well as those who physically prepared and carried out the attacks.<br /><br />General Security Services (Shin Bet) director Yuval Diskin vehemently opposed the move. Israel’s representative in talks with the terrorists, Ofer Dekel, is the one who recommended it.<br /><br />Diskin warned that releasing prisoners with “blood on their hands” would result in increased terrorist attacks, increase Hamas’s standing among PA residents, and thereby weaken Fatah leader and PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s control over the population.<br /><br />A senior government official said that even if Israel made the concession, “The road ahead is still very long. Hamas has high demands to which we have no intention of conceding.”<br /><br />The State of Israel has so far not agreed to release terrorists classified as having “blood on their hands.”<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">References:</span><br />Israel National News: <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/125130">A Sign of Life from Gilad Shalit recieved by Israel</a><br /><br /><div align="left"><img alt="Free Gilad Shalit" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB7MaB6nPB-AbLiOSRZfgmhboM-YMyqLF0iIJOX2LGCyfmVhf9kNCOO07av8NNhQPmoWLKcjDnPgomKC0iD9BoGMHh_EWehpdnu-9iKz2WOzypIWYN9ErR3H32Nh1Z5VCl0MfAQIPBZ0Yf/s200/Free-Gilad-Shalit100.jpg" align="left" border="0" height="60" width="100" /><span style="font-size:85%;">Free: <span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://giladshalit.blogspot.com/">Gilad Shalit</a><br />: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Gilad%20Shalit" target="_blank">Gilad Shalit</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Gilad+Israel" target="_blank">Gilad and Israel</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Gilad" target="_blank">Gilad</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Jewish+Soldier+Gilad" target="_blank">Jewish Soldier and Gilad</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Kidnapped+Soldier" target="_blank">Kidnapped Soldier</a> * </span><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Justice" target="_blank">Justice</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Hostage" target="_blank">Hostage</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Kidnapped+Israeli" target="_blank">Kidnapped Israeli</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Gilad+Shalit" target="_blank">Gilad Shalit</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/IDF" target="_blank">IDF</a>* <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Terrorism" target="_blank">Terrorism</a>* <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Jewish">Jewish</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Hamas">Hamas</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Jew">Jew</a></span></span></div></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1023083335039003951.post-20760736044091346312008-01-11T21:09:00.000+11:002008-11-13T15:46:15.815+11:00Bush, Free Your Captive: Jonathan PollardI just took a night stroll through the Kiryat Moshe of Jerusalem and I saw this:<br /><span id="fullpost"><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K8i6SSkknxA/R4aEyyvjAVI/AAAAAAAAAT4/pYKXt1nMd04/s1600-h/bush+pollard.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K8i6SSkknxA/R4aEyyvjAVI/AAAAAAAAAT4/pYKXt1nMd04/s400/bush+pollard.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5153952831721636178" /></a><br /><br />The sign says, "Bush, Free <span style="font-weight:bold;">Your </span>Captive".<br /><br />Under the picture of Islamofascist Haniyeh is the name Gilad Shalit, who is being held captive in Gaza. The names of Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser are under the picture of Nassrallah the war criminal. Under the image of George W. Bush is the name Jonathan Pollard.<br /><br />I've already stated many times that the continued incarceration of <a href="http://www.jonathanpollard.org/">Pollard </a>is a stain on "the land of the free and the home of the brave." Pollard is in jail because he is a Jew, and not because of any crime that he committed. Bush did not put him in jail,but he has the power to set him free. As long as he doesn't, he is in some pretty bad company.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3492923,00.html">Update</a>:<blockquote>Deputy Prime Minister and Shas Chairman Eli Yishai, who attended the event, forwarded a letter from Shas spiritual leader the Rabbi Ovadia Yosef to Bush. Yosef asked the president to free jailed Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard. <br /><br />Yosef's plea was sent along with a letter from Pollard's wife Esther, asking Bush to pardon her husband, who has been incarcerated for 22 years. </blockquote><br /><br /><div align="left"><img alt="Free Gilad Shalit" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB7MaB6nPB-AbLiOSRZfgmhboM-YMyqLF0iIJOX2LGCyfmVhf9kNCOO07av8NNhQPmoWLKcjDnPgomKC0iD9BoGMHh_EWehpdnu-9iKz2WOzypIWYN9ErR3H32Nh1Z5VCl0MfAQIPBZ0Yf/s200/Free-Gilad-Shalit100.jpg" align="left" border="0" height="60" width="100" /><span style="font-size:85%;">Free: <span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://giladshalit.blogspot.com/">Gilad Shalit</a><br />: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Gilad%20Shalit" target="_blank">Gilad Shalit</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Gilad+Israel" target="_blank">Gilad and Israel</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Gilad" target="_blank">Gilad</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Jewish+Soldier+Gilad" target="_blank">Jewish Soldier and Gilad</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Kidnapped+Soldier" target="_blank">Kidnapped Soldier</a> * </span><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Justice" target="_blank">Justice</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Hostage" target="_blank">Hostage</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Kidnapped+Israeli" target="_blank">Kidnapped Israeli</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Gilad+Shalit" target="_blank">Gilad Shalit</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/IDF" target="_blank">IDF</a>* <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Terrorism" target="_blank">Terrorism</a>* <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Jewish">Jewish</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Hamas">Hamas</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Jew">Jew</a></span></div></span>Cosmic Xhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13880746347107372827noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1023083335039003951.post-90511359095315621222007-12-25T17:52:00.000+11:002008-11-13T15:46:15.952+11:00Gilad Shalit: When the Shark and The Fish First Met<a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/138669">From Arutz Sheva</a>:<br /><blockquote>A short story written by kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit at age 11 will be professionally illustrated, published, and released to select bookstores in January. The story is about a fish and shark that become friends despite their parents’ opposition and eventually create peace between their two species.<br /><br />The story has already been translated into English, Arabic, and other languages, and has inspired an art exhibit in Nahariya. Organizers hope to bring Arabic copies of the story to the Palestinian Authority, and to bring the art exhibit to the central district.</blockquote><span id="fullpost">The original story in Hebrew <a href="http://habanim.org/en/gilad_story_en.html">is available online</a>:<br /><br /><table><tbody><tr><td><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkbHaeo2zsb6XZIaZ1ijTwlNOxSyB5R80MqFczuHN0fmuu88ZS39zznPF7zODMpqOa8v4qE2rfVBHlCWKwLKWJH6Z0TM6xwNenxca-MfIqBmY3ZBPBQLiPOZGSRw71qTLxMWth54Qp9dY/s1600-h/giladshalit.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkbHaeo2zsb6XZIaZ1ijTwlNOxSyB5R80MqFczuHN0fmuu88ZS39zznPF7zODMpqOa8v4qE2rfVBHlCWKwLKWJH6Z0TM6xwNenxca-MfIqBmY3ZBPBQLiPOZGSRw71qTLxMWth54Qp9dY/s400/giladshalit.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5147802681482031010" border="0" /></a></td><td valign="top">The Israeli Illustrators' Association, in coordination with the initiator, "The Edge Gallery" in Nahariya, has decided to take advantage of this story as a way to keep the kidnapped soldiers in the public eye. They have illustrated Gilad's story, each in his own style. Their illustrations will be exhibited in a show, opening at "The Edge Gallery" in Nahariya on November 17, 2007. There is a possibility that this show will continue in other parts of Israel as well.<br /><br />The parents of Gilad, are inviting Israeli children and you too, to illustrate Gilad's story.</td></tr></tbody></table><br />Read "<a href="http://habanim.org/en/gilad_story_en.html">When the Shark and The Fish First Met</a>"--and <a href="http://habanim.org/en/amuta_en.html">learn more about the Keren Maor Foundation</a>.<br /><br /><br />Crossposted at <a href="http://daledamos.blogspot.com">Daled Amos</a></span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:6;"><span style="color: rgb(1, 113, 189); font-weight: 700;"></span></span><br /><br /><br /><div align="left"><img alt="Free Gilad Shalit" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB7MaB6nPB-AbLiOSRZfgmhboM-YMyqLF0iIJOX2LGCyfmVhf9kNCOO07av8NNhQPmoWLKcjDnPgomKC0iD9BoGMHh_EWehpdnu-9iKz2WOzypIWYN9ErR3H32Nh1Z5VCl0MfAQIPBZ0Yf/s200/Free-Gilad-Shalit100.jpg" align="left" border="0" height="60" width="100" /><span style="font-size:85%;">Free: <span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://giladshalit.blogspot.com/">Gilad Shalit</a><br />: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Gilad%20Shalit" target="_blank">Gilad Shalit</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Gilad+Israel" target="_blank">Gilad and Israel</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Gilad" target="_blank">Gilad</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Jewish+Soldier+Gilad" target="_blank">Jewish Soldier and Gilad</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Kidnapped+Soldier" target="_blank">Kidnapped Soldier</a> * </span><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Justice" target="_blank">Justice</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Hostage" target="_blank">Hostage</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Kidnapped+Israeli" target="_blank">Kidnapped Israeli</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Gilad+Shalit" target="_blank">Gilad Shalit</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/IDF" target="_blank">IDF</a>* <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Terrorism" target="_blank">Terrorism</a>* <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Jewish">Jewish</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Hamas">Hamas</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Jew">Jew</a></span></span></div></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1023083335039003951.post-78747045722345232902007-12-23T21:33:00.000+11:002008-11-13T15:46:16.112+11:00take advantage of the situationThe politicians and the IDF have finally done some serious, fairly proactive, attacks to neutralize the Qassam rocket attacks on Sderot and the area. It has met with considerable success. Mainly because the leaders in Gaza are scared for their lives.<br /><br />This was not a ground op (which is probably necessary anyway) which puts Israeli soldiers at risk. This was targeted attacks on the leadership who are giving the ok to shoot the rockets. As soon as a couple of their leaders were knocked off, the rest ran like scared bunnies and started calling for ceasefires. The call itself is funny, as we only targeted their people because of the Qassam attacks. In other words, stop shooting Qassams, and we stop, automatically, picking off your leaders.<br /><br />But they were scared, so they called for a ceasefire.<br /><br />Yet at the same time they call for a ceasefire, they have still been shooting Qassam rockets into Israel. It kind of makes their call for a ceasefire meaningless. They should have stopped shooting and then call for a ceasefire. Then they could say we have stopped, let us now negotiate a ceasefire and if an agreement is not reached, then they should start up again. As it is, their call for a ceasefire is meaningless.<br /><br />Israel, wisely I think, is refusing to talk to Hamas until Hamas recognizes Israel (though we all know they do talk, as they claim to have been negotiating for Shalit's release). It should keep them scared.<br /><br />At the same time, I think, Israel should continue going after their leadership and knocking them off, until such an agreement is in place. Keep them scared.<br /><br />What Israel should really do now, I think, is negotiate a ceasefire with Hamas. but not on Hamas' terms. Not an agreement that says Hamas stops shooting Qassam rockets and Israel stops killing terrorists.<br />The agreements negotiated should be that Hamas stops shooting Qassam rockets and returns Gilad Shalit to Israel, and Israel stops killing terrorists.<br /><br />Now that Israel finally has some semblance of an upper-hand on the Gaza situation, we should take advantage of it. They are scared for their lives. Tell them that if they want us to stop shooting at their leaders, they should stop shooting at us and give us back Shalit.<br /><br />We finally have an advantage. Let's use it.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"> (cross posted at the <a href="http://lifeinisrael.blogspot.com">Life in Israel</a> blog)</span><span id="fullpost"><br /><br /><div align="left"><img alt="Free Gilad Shalit" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB7MaB6nPB-AbLiOSRZfgmhboM-YMyqLF0iIJOX2LGCyfmVhf9kNCOO07av8NNhQPmoWLKcjDnPgomKC0iD9BoGMHh_EWehpdnu-9iKz2WOzypIWYN9ErR3H32Nh1Z5VCl0MfAQIPBZ0Yf/s200/Free-Gilad-Shalit100.jpg" align="left" border="0" height="60" width="100" /><span style="font-size:85%;">Free: <span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://giladshalit.blogspot.com/">Gilad Shalit</a><br />: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Gilad%20Shalit" target="_blank">Gilad Shalit</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Gilad+Israel" target="_blank">Gilad and Israel</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Gilad" target="_blank">Gilad</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Jewish+Soldier+Gilad" target="_blank">Jewish Soldier and Gilad</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Kidnapped+Soldier" target="_blank">Kidnapped Soldier</a> * </span><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Justice" target="_blank">Justice</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Hostage" target="_blank">Hostage</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Kidnapped+Israeli" target="_blank">Kidnapped Israeli</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Gilad+Shalit" target="_blank">Gilad Shalit</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/IDF" target="_blank">IDF</a>* <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Terrorism" target="_blank">Terrorism</a>* <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Jewish">Jewish</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Hamas">Hamas</a> * <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Jew">Jew</a></span></span></div></span>Rafi G.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00699851287106903971noreply@blogger.com0