By Manila Ryce
Published Monday, July 3rd, 2006, 5:34 pm
Filed under: World: Asia, Human Rights, War, World Issues
Cpl. Gilad Shalit, an israeli soldier, was kidnapped on June 25th by a group of Palestinian militants who demanded that all female prisoners and prisoners under 18 be freed in return for Shalit’s release. On the morning of June 29th, Israeli responded by launching a brutal assualt on Palestine. Well over a dozen sites were bombed, including the Palestinian Interior Ministry. The Israeli military claimed the ministry office, controlled by the democratically elected Hamas, was “a meeting place to plan and direct terror activity.”
Egyptian President, Hosni Mubarak, said the militants holding Shalit had already agreed to a conditional release of the soldier, but that Israel refused to accept the terms. This attempt at diplomacy by the militants makes Israel’s offensive towards Palestine as a whole even more speculative. “The soldier will only be released unconditionally and there will be no negotiations with a gang of terrorists and criminals,” Gideon Meir, an Israeli Foreign Ministry official, told The AP. “There is nothing to talk with them about.”
So let me get this straight. The Israeli military will stop bombing innocent civilians and their democratic government once the soldier is returned, but they won’t accept his return because that would mean dealing with terrorists? This kidnapping seems to be exactly what the Israeli military wanted in order to justify their bombing campaign. I wouldn’t be surprised if they were behind it themselves. Diplomatic efforts made by Egypt, Jordan, France, and other nations to convince Israel to ease up on its campaign have failed. Thousands of Israeli soldiers were sent into vacant areas of southern Gaza for a possible ground campaign.
…Israel increased the stakes in the search for the soldier by arresting more than one-third of the Hamas-led Palestinian Cabinet, including the deputy prime minister, in a series of early morning raids in the West Bank.
Israel hinted that the 64 Hamas officials were intended as bargaining chips for Shalit, but one official said the opportunity for preventing a blowup was slipping away.
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Wait a minute, is it even legal to enter another country and arrest members of their government? I mean, does that kind of political authority outside the UN exist? Hey, I know we do it, but we’re fucking America. Who the hell does Israel think he is??
07/6/06 at 4:43 am