Hamas arrested Shalit in 2006.
After negotiations over the release of the Israeli Corporal Gilad Shalit and between 325-450 Palestinians went sour, Israeli forces in the West Bank moved to “arrest” 10 Hamas leaders.
Although the New York Times used the more dignified term “arrest,” it seems a lot more like hostage-taking. I guess democracies like Israel are different than groups like Hamas. They arrest people then use them as political chips, whereas terrorists kidnap people than use them as political chips.
The IDF did not comment on the actual intents, but the timing says it all.
Among the ten Hamas members Israel nabbed are four parliamentarians. Israel has imprisoned around 40 Hamas legislators since Corporal Shalit’s capture in June 2006; many of them remain in jail. You think this habit will disappear if Palestinians are granted a state by Israel? Ha!
The Times did not mention that while one Israeli is being held prisoner by Palestinians, 10,756 Palestinians are currently imprisoned by Israel.
The Times also said falsely that Hamas and other groups captured him during a “cross-border raid,” except that there are no official, declared borders between Gaza and Israel. Did it ever cross their mind to accuse Israel of crossing borders during the January offensive?
One of the hostages, Nasser Eddin al-Shaer, is an academic from Nablus who served as education minister and deputy prime minister in the Hamas-led government.
His wife, Huda al-Shaer, said that soldiers arrived at their Nablus home at around 2 a.m. and stayed for about an hour before taking Mr. Shaer away. Speaking by telephone, Ms. Shaer said she had asked the soldiers why he was being arrested, “but they told me it was not my business.”
The ransom note goes to Hamas and it only has a picture of Shalit.
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You are obviously trying to draw a moral equivalence between the way that Gilad Shalit was taken and the way that Palestinians are arrested.
Posted by eagle007blogger | March 23, 2009, 10:27 pmWhy hasn't anyone referred to Shalit as Corporal McLovin? He looks exactly like him!
Posted by Fernando Hierro | March 26, 2009, 6:05 am