Noam Shalit: Gilad is suffering and rotting in Hamas captivity

...also in the Goldstone Report, see page 85, paragraph 278: "Given the specific geopolitical configuration of the Gaza Strip, the powers that Israel exercises from the borders enable it to determine the conditions of life within the Gaza Strip. Israel controls the border crossings (including to a significant degree the Rafah crossing to Egypt, under the terms of the Agreement on Movement and Access164) and decides what and who gets in or out of the Gaza Strip. It also controls the territorial sea adjacent to the Gaza Strip and has declared a virtual blockade and limits to the fishing zone, thereby regulating economic activity in that zone. It also keeps complete control of the airspace of the Gaza Strip, inter alia, through continuous surveillance by aircraft and unmanned aviation vehicles (UAVs) or drones. It makes military incursions and from time to time hit targets within the Gaza Strip..."

why not? free speach

In that case Maybe Gaza could become a new holiday resort for Jews. If this guy looks healthy to you I suggest you get down to your Optician right now for a check up. Either that or the Gazans need to go on a strict diet..they're eating too much.PSSHHH! you guys have real tunnel vision..so to speak.

Listen Israel. Take no prisoners!

Guinea BBC News a few short days ago, "They put their guns INSIDE the Women and shot them", or yesterday when covering Indonesia where villages have been cleansed of Muslems, acts of Genocide by the Christians. My point being that if you guys consider that in comparison to the Palestinians suffering Shalit's is a non starter then maybe you have to accept that you can't begin to understand, and never will, the Millions of Jews who were raped, murdered and Gassed on a scale one cannot possibly comprehend. Better not to differenciate suffering while sitting comfortably in the privacy of your own homes.

Blame Hamas for all your suffering ,for the destruction around you,for playing with your minds and telling you as a Moslem your religion demands that Israel must be destroyed .Establish a leaderswhip that seeks peace ,that stops firing rockets into Isarael ,that stops the vicious ,violent propoganda against Israel ,that teaches your children peace not war ,and within seconds everything would change ,you would be accepted in the international arena,aid would flow into Gaza ,which would become the Hong kong of the middle east .Its your choice .

Many still don't get it. Not only does Egypt have a Gaza border (no, Israel does not surround or besiege Gaza) but Egypt keeps Gazans prisoner there for years, and forced back thousands trying to flee into Egypt during Cast Lead. As if this weren't sick enough, Arab states still keep Arabs in refugee camps, while Israel saved almost a million Jews kicked from Arab states. No moral equivalency here. Case closed. Shalit is thin and drawn and you may have noticed his "smile" when he mentioned his Hamas captors. How much you wanna bet that "smile" was forced?

That honorable man, while suffering under the emotional strain of the kidnapping of his son, shows a class and decency that not a single Israeli journalist comes up to. The press makes it look as if this is a victory of Netanyahu, nobody mentions the Egyptian and German negotiators. As if arbitrating between the bitterly antagonized sides is no big deal. D'oh. Mr. Shalit, here is praying for the safe return of your beloved! Don't despair, this ordeal will come to an end soon.

If only it were your sons in captivity, you'd respond differently!

the cruelty of the dilemma is that it pits the worth of one life, against the releasing of avowed terrorists who will cause more deaths. i can understand the shalit family, and every israeli who values gilads life, but is it fair at the expense of other lives in the future? israel has been arresting wanted terrorists on a daily basis, and tho it isn't elaborated, is this stockpiling prisoners for future exchanges? a cynical sick business on both sides, and the sooner Hamas and Israel stop dealing in it the closer real peace will be.

Would you want the rest of us to feel as you do if you were the one being held?

ass. That the gazans do not have big asses, although well fed, is an indication that they are oppressed.

What is wrong with everyone. Hamas is a terrorist organisation who were elected in Gaza, and have kidnapped a soldier, not during a war (so he is not a POW). That is why the blockade continues. Because of the rocket fire, and the capture of Shalit. Further, Palestinians in Israeli Jail can be visited by Red Cross. Can Shalit? NO. they can even study degrees. The are treated humanely, unlike Shalit. I don't know how you people who say he should rot and that Hamas is more moral than Israel can sleep at night.

...it's all in the Goldstone Report.

Why even allow this to be published.

The suffering of one is inflated beyond all and all rational bounds to counteract that of the over 10,000 Palestinians in its jail as well as the entire population of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza combined. I'm certain the sacrifice of the Shalit's is deeply appreciated.

Abduction of it's soldiers is always a risk for theocracies that indulge in illegal occupation and colonialism in the name of God, and when Israel detains upward of 10000 Palestinian men, women and children in it's various konzentrationlager, mainly without trial, then the rest of the world is going to sit back and laugh at the crocodile tears over Shalit!

sigh...where is this Israel going? If you dan't exercise self-regulation now...if you continue to encourage and feed on this bloodlust, you'll do nobody any good at all.

think we goyim are....there is a seige in gaza and the reports from the UN say they are starving.....so i should believe you? the whole point of the occupation eric is to force out palestinians and steal their land...finally we goy are not as stupid as you chosen zio's act

it must be rubbing off.....i did not say they were firing at the time they were captured only that they had been...also the ICC says along w/the UN that the occupation colonization and wall are all illegal....you are wrong

the land grab wall and the squatter colonies...it is the highest court in the world and if you chose to ignore then you are a criminal state...but we knew that already right?

"They are worse than common criminals. They are monsters ! The only solution to Hamas is to hunt each and every one of them down like the mad dogs they are" I'm glad you don't live in Connecticut. With such a fanatic viewpoint, you'd be leading a protest against Christians! BTW, thousands of innocent Gaza civilians, women and children, are suffering. Any feeling about that?? Didn't think so. They're only Palestinians, after all...

"Gaza was free of Israeli interference since 2005" Gaza was never free of Israeli interference. It removed its illegal settlers but kept control of every aspect of Gazan life, thereby creating the situation we see today...Gaza as an open-air prison for which Israel has received plenty of condemnation. Like to live in Gaza as a Palestinian, would you?

...I'm sure he's doing at least as well as the thousands of civilians that Israel left homeless in the Gaza Ghetto with winter coming on...

Hamas are barbaric and inhumane, what has this poor young man ever done to them. He looks ill and very thin, I pray that God will release him from imprisonment.

I doubt he is getting much exercise and probably is eating no better than most in Gaza. Gaza is being maintained on starvation rations due to a blockade.

Thank you Krzysztol. The world has lost a great and most courageous freedom fighter. He not only fought oppression, he fought for decency, humanity and peace.

"shalit was part of a tank crew firing into gaza indicriminatly," - why am i? You are either very ignorant, or a malicious liar. The tank crew was, according to one survivor at the time, asleep. If they were not asleep they might have well been. Under any circumstances they were not in action, were not firing into Gaza and most certainly not firing indiscriminately. "and part of the occupation which is illegal...." - why am i? Thought there are illegal actions by the occupier, the occupation per se is not illegal. " . . .who are you to tell me anything lying zionist?" - why are you The person caught lying, blatantly, is you what ever you are and why.

This is astounding. Even if Hamas has no respect for the humanity of this person, their stupidity in failing to give him proper food is just beyond belief. Not just monstrous, but idiotic. Gilad, stay strong, just staying alive in such outrageous conditions is a victory in itself. And no, fools who think you know what's going on there: Gazans are not starving. They may not be obese like Americans, but any video will show you people of absolutely normal weight and energetic, well-nourished boys running wild in the streets.

Hamas refuses Israel's right to exist and for the Jews to live in Israel period. Rockets, attacks and suicide bombings are inevitable solely for the fact that Israel is there. When attacked Israel strikes back. The fact that Israel has better capacity to strike back is irrelevant and does not give Hamas a superior morality. Peace, accept Israel's right to exist...maybe that's something to consider.

Of course the Palestinians are suffering far more then the Israelis are. It's a terrible reality. At the core of this issue is not the settlements, nor is it terrorism OR rejection of Israel's right to exist. It's the Palestinian nation's refusal to accept something as meager as the West bank. Well I say, suck it up. Who said life is fair or that it can be made fair? So long as you allow incitement against Israel to continue, Israel's occupation of you will remain something that it MUST do. Stop pointing fingers. It would be much worse to live in the Congo; be happy with the West Bank and make peace already.

and shalit is a war criminal....get over it

And so Gilad is a criminal as belonging to a criminal organisation and deserves to be treated like that. At least in the same way as Pal prisoners are treated in Isareli KZ's where many of them die.

Well?, you do realize that for a POW situation to occur, there must be a war. By your logic, all the prisoners that are "rotting" inside Israeli prisons are also POWs. If you think people inside Gaza are entitled to live by Geneva convention laws, well then they should fight as such as well. That means that Hamas at all times must wear identifiable uniform and not use civilians as shields or suicide bombers.

Israel locks up in dungeons without trial and the rockets would cease but instead Israeli luminaries, true to form, breaks the ceasefire and bombs Gaza with mils. of dime missiles, cluster bombs and white phosphorus, on women and children, defenseless civilians they corralled on an over crowded strip of land. "...justify the suffering of others? give me a bucket! Israel collective punishes all Palestinians, whose land they covet. Each time Israel attacks, Hamas should have increased their demands.

Egypt and Hamas force Gazans to remain imprisoned in Gaza - Egypt even FORCED BACK thousands of Gazans who breached the border to run for their lives into Egypt during israel's counter-attack to years of missiles from Gaza - the missiles and more smuggled in from Egypt, no less! The warped double standard of those screaming "Israel's" Gaza siege, and "Israel's" open-air Gaza prison is beyond disgusting. Israel saved and absorbed almost a million Jews kicked from Arab states, while Arab states still keep Arabs in refugee camps there - to this very day. Think on that a moment. Knowing only that Egypt has a Gaza border is enough to empty the sick lies of the Israel-haters.

has dressed him with a padded shirt and shoulders to make him appear less emaciated that he is. They probably used make-up on him too! These are terrorists and kidnappers. They are worse than common criminals. They are monsters ! The only solution to Hamas is to hunt each and every one of them down like the mad dogs they are !

Shalit was just a teen drafted? Maybe Israel needs to address this and look at your societal issues about this. You have this dicrepancy...one min they are teens, next they are men. You are Proud you where in IDF but blame everything on the govt. One side of you trashes military service, while you restle with anyone being a refusnik. I feel very sorry for him,and his parents. But a country who occupies it's brothers nation, can expect this situation.

You are both right. That is called a tragedy.

Noam Shalit has much more courage than any politician in Israel. No doubt he understands what is going on. To ransom Gilad Shalit would incur a political penalty. To come right out and say that he will never be redeemed is to pay an even bigger political penalty. So the last two governments have followed the same course. Stalling, doing neither, while hoping Gilad Shalit will disappear.

He's not the only prisoner living in Gaza...

Lucky he is not living in the Gazan open air ghetto created by Israel. Hopefully he has clean drinking water, food and medicines when he is sick and blankets when he is cold. Hundreds of thousands of Gazans do not have these basic things.

firing into gaza indicriminatly, and part of the occupation which is illegal....who are you to tell me anything lying zionist?

Yes, the suffering of the oppressed justifies the suffering of the perpetrator. It's called nemesis, revenge, justice--whatever you want to call it.

Gaza was free of Israeli interference since 2005. They attacked Israel and abducted Gilad in 2006, thereby sealing the fate of the people in Gaza. They rot in Gaza because they choose to rot. It could all be over if they hand Gilad back and resort to peaceful negotiations. #1 GET A CLUE

palestinians are still in bigest ghetto in the world surrounded by people who once were like them history will again repeat itself

10,000 palestinians in jail are all terrorist women children old men they are because they are palestinians you are crying about one man in uniform who is part of children killing army

Oh, come ON. Who are you to tell a grieving father that the occupation is illegal? Do you think Noam Shalit has anything to do with Gaza? He's just an Israeli citizen who wants his son back. Is Gilad Shalit a war criminal? What crime did he commit? He wasn't involved in any fighting. He was just a soldier on patrol, drafted into the army like all Israeli teens are. That was his only crime - being an Israeli citizen. Does that justify kidnap? Does the suffering of some really justify the suffering of others?

please announce it: Marek Edelman, the last living commander of the Ghetto uprising in Warsaw passed away. ['] ['] [']

I totally agree with number 1

And in the meantime many people all over the world are dying. And nobody cares. I dont care about Shalit. He is the most unimportant guy in the world. Too much hype for just one guy.

the seige is not good for anyone living in gaza...and i am sure you would agree feeding their children is more important than feeding your sonny boy who is a POW and war criminal? the occupation is illegal you know