I Fear The Terrible NewsThat Gilad Shalit Will Be Forced To Contend With Upon His Arrival

Gilad Shalit was a newlywed at the time of his abduction. While tragic events such as what Gilad has had to endure is overbearingly difficult to contend with, it is certainly the young wife that suffers more than her fair share.

In the first few days after the abduction, Fox News anchor John Gibson spoke with Gilad's wife, the interview of whic was extraordinarily traumatic. Gilad's wife ran the gamut of emotional distress, hysteria, incoherence, madness, poor girl, to such a degree Fox had no choice but to immediately stop the interview.

. I thought of her, her difficult plight through these past years,but don't recall a single instance of her ever again being interviewed by the media after the initial Fox interview. And now with the great news of Gilad's release seemingly in the works, my thoughts of her, the terrible ordeal she's had to endure now finally hopefully coming to an end began to get my curiosity. I had hoped of getting a glimpse of her on TV along with family members celebrating the joyous news but despite going from channel to channel she was nowhere to be found. I then did an extensive google search specifically "Gilad Shalit's Wife" in paranthesis but despite going through pages and pages of search results I could not find anything that mentioned his wife. Even worse, was that even after removing the parantheses from the search term, allowing "wife" to be set free as a search parameter, NOT ONCE, was there anysearch results linking Gilad Shalit to a wife.( SEE REMAINDER OF POST IN COMENTS)

At this point with her nowhere to be found as part of the TV family celebration I would be hard pressed to believe she was still part of the family, do not believe she would otherwise be playing it safe laying low until the exchange was complete.

The best case scenario under the circumstances was that the pain became too much for her to deal with and after discussing it wit her inlaws thought it would be best to move on, get a new life, to send the intolerable suffring. There is a precedent for just such a scenario.

I vividly recall a young police officer newly wed, Officer McDonald, who shot, paralyzed, by some black-teenager, which by the way, Officer McDonald had publicly forgiven relegated to a wheel chair at the time, at his side was his bride, a gorgeous, young blomd bombshell, standing there with him in a show of support, maintaining her marital vows, in sickness and in health at the police press conference but in all subsequent news events regarding Officer McDonald she was never to be seen again.

It's quite hard to judge others in the terrible situation as it was, and starting out in early life they way these two did, it's very easy to judge Mrs. MacDonald so very, very harshly but what she really deserved was our blessing and understanding in her decision to walk away to start a new life.

I have no idea where Gilad Shalit's poor wife may be, but she certainly deserves our understanding, support and best wishes wherever she may be, healthy, happy in her life.

it's very easy to judge Mrs. MacDonald so very, very harshly but what she really deserved was our blessing and understanding in her decision to walk away to start a new life.

Disagree.

What part of "for better or worse, in sickness or in health" is difficult to understand?

Abandoning a mate who is permanently disabled is very understandable, but that doesn't make it any less wrong and a violation of solemn vows. Not that vows are generally taken all that seriously any more.

Wow. That is some revelation to me. Having you kindly point this out to me I'm going to take it at face value that we're talking about the same people. I saw Officer and Mrs. MacDonald at a press conference when the story first broke and despite seeing Officer MacDonald on many numerous occasions since the shooting, I had never seen Mrs. MacDonald at his side since.

Various other observations, including vague memory of an article in the New York Post that she had indeed left him brought me to the conclusion I did but now stand corrected. Thank you very much.

Thank you for posting this. I, too, was looking for related information about Shalit's wife, having read - albeit, long ago - that he was a newlywed at the time of his capture. It is truely stunning to witness how thoroughly this information has been uniformly scrubbed. FWIW, Debbie Schlussel posted this earlier:

"Shalit['s] parents, Noam and Aviva Shalit are leftists who paraded around Israel and the Palestinian Authority meeting with and consoling Islamic terrorists, camped out in a protest tent in front of the Prime Minister’s residence, and engaged in non-stop moral equivalence statements about Israeli soldiers and Islamic terrorists.

If his newlywed wife did not share her inlaw's, Noam and Aviva's political bent, the last five years would have been enormously more difficult for her to endure and remain in the picture. My heart breaks for each of them as they come to face each other and deal with the many challenges ahead.

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