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IBA News
03.08.10

Gilad Shalit -- 1,500 days & nights in captivity

The Shalit family is marking the 1500th day of Gilad's captivity in Gaza. The IDF soldier was abducted 1500 days ago in a cross-border raid by Palestinian gunmen
The family and supporters will hold a rally opposite the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem on Tuesday afternoon.
Tuesday is Gilad's 24th birthday, according to the Hebrew calendar.The Shalit family is marking the 1500th day of Gilad's captivity in Gaza.
The IDF soldier was abducted 1500 days ago in a cross-border raid by Palestinian gunmen ...

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Friday, March 13, 2009

Gilad Shalit--At Any Price?

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.

Israelis seem to have lost the knack. They're (we're) playing all these negotiations like total patsies, total fools.

We've given away our precious Land for nothing--Disengagement or a smile and Nobel Peace Prize--Menachem Begin's Camp David.

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.

Gilad Shalit's family are media darlings like the religious parents of our soldiers captured in Lebanon could never be.

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.

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