Is it just me or are our politicians and our media behaving in an extraordinarily irresponsible manner when it comes to the issue of Gilad Shalit?
Apparently a deal is imminent. Apparently the deal is stuck on four prisoners the Israeli government is not willing to release. Apparently, if we had not given Hamas such a hiding in operation Cast Lead they would not be negotiating on the issue of Gilad. Apparently Operation Cast lead is what has brought Hamas to discuss the release of Gilad. Apparently it has nothing to do with Israel, rather the internal struggles between Hamas in Gaza and Hamas in Syria is what is holding up the release. Apparently, apparently apparently, yata yata yata.........shut the fuck up! for god sake or rather for Gilad's sake.
Gilad Shalit has now been in captivity for 960 days. One cannot possible imagine what the poor kid has gone through. Nor can one help but admire the strength and character shown by his family as they have struggled with the impossible in order to bring their son home. Please god or the universe, this will happen in the near future...however!
The negotiations are no doubt complex and difficult. Hamas are keenly aware of the importance of one Israeli soldier to the country, so much so that feel perfectly comfortable equating one Israeli life to one thousand or so Palestinians. I might suggest that if Israel dared to make such an equation the world would soon have something to say about it. However that is the reality in which we operate.
The annoying thing, to me anyway; is that it would appear that out politicians, with the elections tomorrow, see that they may be able to make some political capital out of this situation. God they make me sick. Ehud Barak claims that it is Operation cast lead which has made it possible to negotiate Gilad's release. I wonder who he thinks should take credit for that then? David Ben Eliezer, suggests that it is the severe beating Hamas received at the hands of the IDF that has brought this about. Tzipi, Bibi, Barak, all of them, "do not wish to negotiate in public" however they all have their own way in which they want to take some credit for the possibility of Gilad's release. Let's not forget Mr Olmert who really wants to take credit for a release before he ends his political career and goes off to defend himself in the courts. Who knows, perhaps it will help him with the judge.
And then we have the Israeli media who follow role out their experts who pontificate on the negotiations, what is going on, what they want, what we want, how it will work and how it could go wrong. All in the interests of ratings, not Gilad, not the country, not the interests of the public, but for ratings.
Do none of these self interested self obsessed morons recognise the potential harm to the current negotiations. Every time a minister or politician in this country speaks out on the issue, he/she weakens our bargaining position. Every time a news caster roles out another expert to hypothesise on the negotiations, it has the potential to weaken out bargaining position.
When Gilad is finally home, (inshallah) then speak all you want and fight for the credit for his release. We the public will wait to hear and will gladly postpone our right to information if that can bring Gilad home sooner. The only ones who currently have the right to know what is going on is Gilad's family. You can tell us all about it once they have their child in their arms.
Bottom line, until it is done, shut the fuck up!!!!!!!!!!
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