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...Aviv park last Thursday, more than 40,000 people gathered to remind Prime Minister Ehud Olmert that the fierce 34-day attack on Lebanon failed to achieve one crucial goal: to free two Israeli soldiers kidnapped by Hizballah militants. And a smaller but no less lethal military operation in Gaza - in which more than 200 Palestinians were killed - has yet to rescue a third Israeli soldier who was grabbed in June by Palestinian militants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Israel Free Its Hostages? | 9/5/2006 | See Source »

...Israelis. But even that could come with a price. When asked by intermediaries if the captors would be willing to provide signs of life, one captor replied, "Nothing is free." The Palestinians and Hizballah also refused Red Cross pleas that three Israeli prisoners - Eldad Regev and Udi Goldwasser, along with Shalit - be allowed to contact their families...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Israel Free Its Hostages? | 9/5/2006 | See Source »

...Negotiating the release of the two prisoners held by Hizballah will be trickier. The Israelis have only 23 Lebanese prisoners to trade, most of them seized in last month's fighting. So far, The ICRC has received no response from Israeli authorities on its demands for access to alleged Hizballah prisoners. To strengthen their bargaining hand, the Israelis carried out a commando raid in Baalbek valley, seizing five members of the Nasrallah family - assuming they belonged to the same family as Hizballah chief Hasan Nasrallah. But when they learned that the captive Nasrallahs were not related to the Hizballah leader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Israel Free Its Hostages? | 9/5/2006 | See Source »

...known that the kidnapping of the soldiers would have led to this, we would definitely not have done it." SHEIK HASSAN NASRALLAH, leader of Hizballah, on the capture of Israeli soldiers by his militant group, which sparked the current fighting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 9/4/2006 | See Source »

Iraq is slipping deeper into the blood-red waters of civil strife. The Taliban is resurgent in Afghanistan. Hizballah is crowing in the wake of Israel's inconclusive attacks. Hamas runs the Palestinian Authority. Iran is drawing closer to acquiring nuclear weapons. Osama bin Laden and his top deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, continue to taunt the West with messages of defiance, as jihadist cells from London to Lahore plot fresh attacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's Not Over Yet | 9/3/2006 | See Source »

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