The intensive talks between Israel and Hamas have ended and special envoy Ofir Dekel and ISA (Israel Security Agency – Shin Bet) Director Yuval Diskin are heading home to brief Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
There is a total press blackout on the results of the meeting, with officials in the Prime Minister’s Office announcing a special cabinet meeting will be held tomorrow, Tuesday, to discuss the Shalit matter and a possible prisoner exchange deal.
IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-General Gabi Ashkenazi has cut short his official US visit and is heading home Monday night (Israel time) to take part in Tuesday’s cabinet meeting on a Gilad Shalit deal. Officials stress the IDF chief’s return shouldn’t be interpreted as a sign in either direction regarding a prisoner release deal with Hamas.
(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)
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mobolize the troops they want to trade him for every murder that wev captured there useing this smoke screen to aviod public backlash all this man cares about is going down in the books as bringing shalit home
US Government: we will give you almost a billion either way, HAMAS: we take it from the infidels and wish (and work) towards your destruction, Israeli govenment to HAMAS; we rather argue about goyim getting married than about fighting the real ARAB threat, a chilul Hashem mamish is what I call Netanyahu and his type.
Aish.com has the following online petition to the Secretary of State, which I urge everyone to sign and forward to others:
“We, the undersigned, call on the United States government to make its $300 million humanitarian aid pledge to the people of Gaza, conditional upon the Hamas leadership releasing Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, held in captivity for over 1,000 days.”
I know that Yeshiva World does not usually publish links, but I hope they will make an exception for this important petition:
http://dogood.aish.com/gilad/
Note that the petition uses the figure $300 million, whereas $900 million appears to be the correct figure; presumably, the submitted petition will have the correct figure.