Noam Shalit
Noam Shalit, father of former prisoner Gilad Shalit announced on Israel’s Channel 10 he would kidnap an Israeli soldier in his quest for freedom, if he were a Palestinian.
The father of an Israeli soldier held in captivity for more than five years by Hamas has said he would kidnap Israeli soldiers if he were a Palestinian.
Noam Shalit, who announced earlier this year that he would be standing for the opposition Labour party in the next Israeli elections, has provoked outrage among the Israeli right with the comments. His son, Gilad, was released in a prisoner swap in October 2011.
Shalit added that the kidnapping of Israeli soldiers by Hamas militants was comparable to the techniques used by Israeli paramilitary fighters the Haganah against the British, arguing “we also kidnapped British soldiers when we were fighting for our freedom”.
Speaking to a television interviewer in the kitchen of the Shalit family home, a familiar backdrop for the Israeli public from the family’s five-year campaign for their son’s release, Shalit was subject to repeated questioning attempting to pin him down on his political policies.
The former engineer eventually summarised his key campaign issues as “mutual responsibility. And not leaving soldiers behind or any Israeli who is in any trouble.” He also said he would be prepared to negotiate with Hamas if he were an MP, something the Israeli government, along with Britain and the US, refuses to do.
Here we go again, from the same article in Guardian
“I am in favour of speaking to anyone who wants to talk to us,” he said. When asked whether he would negotiate with a Hamas government headed by his son’s kidnapper, he maintained: “If they change their ways and are willing to recognise Israel as a Jewish state, yes, I would shake his hand.”
Do you read what I’m reading here, Annie? Recognize Israel as a Jewish state.
It must’ve slipped by you.
OMG!
spoken like a true human being
The former engineer eventually summarised his key campaign issues as “mutual responsibility. And not leaving soldiers behind or any Israeli who is in any trouble.” He also said he would be prepared to negotiate with Hamas if he were an MP, something the Israeli government, along with Britain and the US, refuses to do.
This is someone who has suffered from losing his son for 5 years and yet he is able to empathize with the “other”, see their viewpoint, and seek reconciliation. A hard task.
The Lord bless and keep him.
Well he certainly made a bold statement, wonder if he has a chance of getting elected.
Frankly I’d kidnap Israeli IDF or officials too as bargaining chips, see nothing wrong with that.
More strategic would be to kidnap a large number of them and stake them out around Iran nuclear facilities where they are certain to get blown up in an attack. And then invite one Israeli to come verify they are there. When he returns and Israel starts denouncing it as using human shields, then I would do what Israel always does and scream to the world it’s a lie to delegitimize Iran, deny I had them and so forth. LOL.
If I ever decided to be an outlaw and go rouge in the USA I would kidnap some AIPAC’ers and Israel first big wigs in politics and media and stow them in the basement for use at various times…. LOL
This could be fun! Surely there’s a thriller novel in this somewhere.
if i were a palestinian i’d…………
o but i am a palestinian
how?
by virtue of having put my life on the line for the liberation of palestine
in west beirut during the ’82 u.s.-backed israeli war on lebanon
in gaza and the west bank during the first intifada
here in america for repeatedly speaking out for justice in palestine
and i’m not alone in such transformations under fire
many have joined me
some are legendary
what will it take for palestine to be free?
everyone standing up and saying
yes! I’m Palestinian