Palestinian children seek prisoner swap [major tear-jerker]

Al-Jazeera Terrorist News Network ^ | 3 July 2006 00:57 Mecca Time

[Saint Reagan]

Children of Palestinian prisoners have called for a deal under which Israel would free their fathers and Palestinian fighters would release an Israeli soldier being held hostage.

The children also urged Aviva Shalit, the mother of the Israeli captive, 19-year-old Corporal Gilad Shalit, to understand the grief they have suffered by having relatives taken into custody.

At a news conference in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Sunday, several of the children read statements addressed to the captured Israeli soldier's mother, Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian president, and Kofi Annan, the UN secretary-general.

Mubarak's government is leading negotiations aimed at persuading Palestinian fighters who captured Shalit near the Gaza-Israeli border on June 25 to free him.

Israeli forces have invaded Gaza in an effort to find Shalit or to force the fighters to free him.

Appeal

"We want you to care about our fathers the same as you do about the Israeli soldier," said Ansar Bayoud, 13, son of Yousef Bayoud, a Palestinian detained in the Israeli prison camp of Ketziot in southern Israel.

Eman Abu Shalbak, 13, the daughter of Mohammed Abu-Shalbak, another prisoner there, said to Shalit's mother: "We know that you are so eager to have your son back in your lap, eager to hold him, to know anything about him and this is your right. But could you stop for a while and think of the thousands of Palestinian prisoners in your jails?"

[Saint Reagan]

I'm so moved.

[JennysCool]

Ah, well, it's "for the children."

[MediaMole]

You forgot your sarcasm tag.

[lp boonie]

Yeah, I'm so moved I can hardly type. Brother, what a bunch of crap.

[PureSolace]

If they are in prison... doesn't that mean they did SOMETHING to get there? do the palis think Israel is dumb?

[TheWasteLand]

It's moving my stomach contents into the toilet perhaps...

[Saint Reagan]

Yeah but my favorite part is how the children how the authority to make deals on behalf of the kidnappers and the rest of Hamas.

[claudiustg]

---Eman Abu Shalbak, 13, the daughter of Mohammed Abu-Shalbak, another prisoner there, said to Shalit's mother: "We know that you are so eager to have your son back in your lap, eager to hold him, to know anything about him and this is your right. But could you stop for a while and think of the thousands of Palestinian prisoners in your jails?"---

Shalit is not a criminal like your father, little girl. Your father must stay in jail to finish out his sentence to keep him from murdering or helping to murder little Jewish girls,

[onyx]

FOTFLOL!
Good one, JennysCool.

[Proud_USA_Republican]

The palestinians know that the MSM will always be there to spout their propaganda.

[singfreedom]

I first thought these were the children of the politicians the Israeli's had recently taken prisoner. Instead they are the children of the bombers and murderers the Israeli's were already holding. I see no parity here whatsoever. It's only a cheap publicity stunt, a photo op worthy of Branjolie, arranged by yet another bunch of terrorists and murders.

It's shameful--exchange a soldier for the scum of the earth--please.

[singfreedom]

I first thought these were the children of the politicians the Israeli's had recently taken prisoner. Instead they are the children of the bombers and murderers the Israeli's were already holding. I see no parity here whatsoever. It's only a cheap publicity stunt, a photo op worthy of Branjolie, arranged by yet another bunch of terrorists and murders.

It's shameful--exchange a soldier for the scum of the earth--please.

[Screaming_Gerbil]

I finally figured out that [major tear-jerker] = Major Sarcasm. But this still needs a major Barf Alert.

[Saint Reagan]

Well this isn't exactly western MSM. I read Al-Jazeera strictly for amusement. Of course Arab media is worse than MSM because there's not even a facade of impartiality.

[Saint Reagan]

I finally figured out that [major tear-jerker] = Major Sarcasm. But this still needs a major Barf Alert.

But is there really any point in being sarcastic if you have to announce to the world you're being sarcastic?

[TheWasteLand]

Of course Arab media is worse than MSM because there's not even a facade of impartiality.

On the other hand, at least the Arab media doesn't leak security program details and then claim they're patriots.

[ArmyTeach]

The children need to be made to understand the pain, grief and suffering of the Israelis when Hamas blows up a restaurant, a school bus or a market. Why does only the pain of the Palestinians count? The children need to be made to understand that if you don't want a fight, don't start one.

[ArmyTeach]

... and don't whine.

[singfreedom]

Precisely---these subhumans (who intentionally corrupt their own children) have been living on borrowed time for far too long. It's disgusting that the nations of the world have allowed the entire "nation" to act like spoiled, ill-bred, dangerous, children since 1947.

[Mr. Keys]

I really do think about the thousands of Palis sitting in Israeli jails. I think it's not nearly enough in the jails. If only they would act like humans they wouldn't be there. But they don't so let them rot there.