Word: shalit
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...past three weeks, much of Israel's focus has been on the escalating crisis in Gaza - the fierce military and political battles with Hamas and other militants, and the effort to secure the release of captive soldier Cpl. Gilad Shalit and to prevent the firing of homemade rockets from northern Gaza into Israel. But for a number of Israeli security officials, the more serious threat always lay farther to the north, in Lebanon, where the well-armed, deeply entrenched and disciplined militants of Hizballah have their stronghold...
...Hizballah's raid and the events in Gaza to be established."In order to fulfill a promise to free the prisoners and detainees, the Islamic Resistance captured at 9:05 a.m. two Israeli soldiers at the borders with occupied Palestine," Hizballah said in a statement. They offered a deal - Shalit and the two new Israeli hostages in exchange for Palestinian and Hizballah prisoners in Israeli jails. Later in the day, Hizballah's leader, Hassan Nasrallah, said the Israeli soldiers "will only return home through indirect negotiations and an exchange of prisoners...
...taking part in attacks on Israeli troops - she is by turns furious and woeful. She doesn't deny her son's actions; what almost all Israelis see as terrorism, she sees as justified resistance. But when asked about the parents of Corporal Gilad Shalit, the Israeli soldier held [an error occurred while processing this directive] captive by Palestinian militants since June 25, she is instantly empathetic. "We know Israelis love their children just as we do," she says softly. The Shalit family's love for Gilad is indeed palpable in the northern Israeli town of Hila, where his parents, Noam...
...outcome of the Shalit crisis may even further empower the radicals: Israel's Internal Security Minister Avi Dichter indicated Friday that Israel may be moving toward a prisoner swap - as demanded by Shalit's captors - in order to get its soldier home. That would be a massive victory for the hard-liners in Hamas - in the same way that Israel's withdrawal from Gaza without negotiating any agreements with the Palestinian leadership was taken on the street as vindication of the violent strategy of Hamas, which had not yet entered politics...
...Abbas and Haniyeh won't be the only losers if the crisis ends with a prisoner exchange. Israel, for all the violence it unleashed on Gaza in the wake of Shalit's capture, will have been seen in Palestinian eyes to have been humbled. And U.S. influence in the region is unlikely to be boosted...