Hamas spokesman Ahmed Youssef says that if Israel releases Palestinians from Israeli jails, Hamas might reciprocate by releasing a video tape of kidnapped and illegally incarcerated Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit (‘Hamas may release Schalit video tape if Israel frees women, children’, Jerusalem Post, Monday 27 August).Hopefully Israel will respond to the Hamas invite in kind, […]
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EU and UN subsidising Hamas kidnapping of Israelis
The EU and UN are subsidising the Hamas penchant for kidnapping Israeli citizens. The Palestinian government holds an abducted Israeli citizen, Gilad Shalit. The Israeli government holds Palestinian customs revenues. The Palestinian government has no intentions of releasing Shalit, kidnapped from inside sovereign Israel. But the Israeli government is apparently willing to release the withheld […]
Swedish children for sale in Gaza
The welfare – perhaps even the lives – of 5 Swedish children is being sacrificed on the altar of political expediency. Swedish mother Elizabeth Krantz’s five children were kidnapped from Sweden back in June 2004 by her estranged Palestinian husband Ismail Nowajah. The children – Adam, Amina, Zakarias, Miriam and Sara – range in age […]