Posted on 06/27/2011 7:18:59 PM PDT by Former Fetus
Sunday was the first day of Sgt. Gilad Schalit’s sixth year in captivity. Schalit was kidnapped on June 26, 2006 and has been held hostage by Palestinian terrorists affiliated with Hamas in Gaza ever since.
For five years, Schalit has been held incognito. His terrorist captors have permitted him to send but one letter to his family and released but one video of Schalit over this entire period. He has been denied visits by the International Committee of the Red Cross. He was clearly emaciated in the video.
Over the past five years, Hamas has engaged in periodic indirect negotiations with Israel through a German mediator and others. While their demands have varied from time to time, essentially they want Israel to release around 1,500 terrorists from its prisons in exchange for Schalit. And they want the terrorists to be released to their homes in Judea and Samaria and Gaza where they can pick up killing Jews where they left off.
And it isn’t only Hamas demanding these things. In an interview with IMRA news agency on May 25, Fatah negotiator Nabil Shaath said that the Fatah supports Hamas’s demands. Shaath explained that once the Fatah-Hamas unity government is formed Schalit will become the responsibility of the unified Palestinian Authority.
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I would like to ask all Freepers to say a prayer for Gilad Schalit and his family. Pray that he is still alive, that he will released soon. Be'esrat HaShem.
make schalit responsible for authorizing all food to the palestinian prisoners. without his signature, no one will be fed. the palis are responsible for what happens.
win win
brilliant !
we can’t negotiate with terrorists.
we have to make them offers they can’t refuse.
(like NO more Mosques in ANY western countries,
until they build ONE in Mecca.
...they have hundreds of thousands of christian slav... workers in Saudi. and not a SINGLE church in the entire country.)
Ping.
...they want Israel to release around 1,500 terrorists from its prisons in exchange for Schalit... to be released to their homes in Judea and Samaria and Gaza where they can pick up killing Jews where they left off... on May 25, Fatah negotiator Nabil Shaath said that the Fatah supports Hamas's demands.
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please remove, thanks
Here is the point Israel needs to press vigorously.
Palestinians want the UN to make a state.
The PA made a deal with Hamas to form a unity government.
But Hamas refuses to follow the Geneva Convention, they won’t allow lawyers, vistors, red crescent/red cross/red star to see him etc...
HOW can the UN give Palestinians a state when they blatantly refuse to follow Geneva Convention when it comes to prisoners. This is not a question of whether some shells fired here or there violated the law... this is an active, ongoing issue that can be resolved in 1 minute. If he is a POW they must grant him his rights as a POW as Israel does to its prisoners.
If they cannot do this, they cannot and should not be voted into a member of the UN.
Hopefully the UN will vote no, and maybe this will cause the release of Schalit. The Schalit family needs to go on a tour around the world making this case. Release our son, or at least allow us to visit him and have charges brought against him in open court. Follow the Geneva convention or else please do not give the Palis a state until they do.
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