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Mother of MIA Goldwasser: State leaders have broken our trust

By Jack Khoury, Haaretz Correspondent

Tags: IDF, abducted soldiers

Israel's leaders have broken the nation's faith in the obligation of the state to protect the men who serve it, the mother of abducted Israel Defense Forces soldier Ehud Goldwasser said on Sunday.

The leaders have "delivered a blow to the heart of the nation," Miki Goldwasser wrote in a letter to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, President Shimon Peres, Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Knesset Speaker Dahlia Itzik.

In her letter, Goldwasser wrote that the Israeli public - rather than its leaders - has become the support system for families whose sons were abducted while serving in the Israel Defense Forces.

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Goldwasser is planning to read the letter on Monday at a candle-lighting ceremony in Tel Aviv's Rabin Square in honor of Hannukah and in solidarity with the missing soldiers. Goldwasser took part Sunday in a torch parade held by youth in Nahariya in solidarity with the soldiers.

Her letter breaks a relative silence over the last few months among the relatives of abducted soldiers. The families have also avoided declaratory statements against the government, particularly following the recent prisoner swap deal between Israel and Hezbollah.

Goldwasser's son Ehud was abducted by Hezbollah alongside fellow reserves soldier Eldad Regev in July 2006, sparking the Second Lebanon War.

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