Word: shalit
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...real reason why the U.S., the EU, Jordan, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia supported the position that Hamas instigated this recent conflict in Gaza: They were brainwashed by the biased mass media. Unfortunately, Mr. Moore’s facile and foolish belief that the kidnapping of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit was Israel’s only motivation for its incursion into Gaza misstates the root cause of Israel’s actions. The kidnapping of Cpl. Gilad Shalit, a direct violation of Israel’s borders and an internationally recognized act of war, was the straw that broke the camel?...
...southern Lebanon on the first of the month, as promised—but there is no end in sight to the war between Israel and Hamas, the militant Islamic organization responsible for years of suicide bombings in Israel and for the June 25 kidnapping of Israeli solider Gilad Shalit, which precipitated the most recent conflict in the Middle East...
...year-old girl, Damilaz Hamad. According to the Gaza-based Palestinian Center for Human Rights, Damilaz is among 60 women and children killed in air strikes since June, when Israel launched its assault on the Gaza Strip in response to the abduction of an Israeli soldier, Corporal Gilad Shalit. At Damilaz's funeral, militants in black T shirts fired AK-47s in the air. On a white wall, someone had sprayed the words CONGRATULATIONS TO THE FAMILY FOR THE MARTYRDOM OF DAMILAZ HAMAD. The only genuine grief was from the girl's paraplegic mother, who lay crumpled on a mattress...
...unilateral withdrawals from the West Bank that had been a centerpiece of his campaign strategy are not politically feasible for the foreseeable future. Meeting with Abbas may be a way of signaling to Israelis that he is trying to forge ahead toward resolving the conflict, even though Corporal Gilad Shalit remains a captive of Hamas. But if pre-Lebanon Olmert held a view of Israel's final borders substantially short of what Abbas could accept, post-Lebanon Olmert may have even less to offer Abbas in exchange for a deal...
...Israeli military officials say they haven't given up on the possibility of staging a rescue operation to free the hostages. Palestinians in Gaza say that Israeli intelligence officers are squeezing their informers for any scrap of evidence that might lead them to Shalit's captors. In Lebanon, the task is more daunting; the last war exposed that Israeli intelligence lacks the contacts to penetrate Hizballah as deeply as they have the Palestinian militant outfits. During the campaign in Lebanon, according to various Israeli news reports, Israeli commandos raided a hospital in Baalbek, where an Iranian doctor had supposedly treated...