Saturday, May 1, 2010
What do Hamas animators dream of at night? Why, ways to torture Israelis and corrupt their own young people, of course: Hamas produces cartoon video on Shalit
Hamas released a cartoon video showing captive Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit returning to Israel in a coffin.
The animated video, released Sunday, shows Shalit's father, Noam, wandering deserted streets looking at billboard after billboard of Israeli leaders promising to work for his son's release. He is finally shown, having aged by many years, waiting at the Erez checkpoint for the return of his son. As Noam Shalit shouts "No!" at the sight of the flag-draped coffin, he jerks awake inside a protest tent and realizes it is a dream. "There is still hope," reads the closing caption of the video, followed by the symbol for Hamas.
The cartoon appeared on the Web site of Hamas' armed wing, Izzadin A-Qassam Brigades, and was distributed to Israeli television stations. It was released on day 1,400 of Shalit's captivity...
Here is the real Noam Shalit, appearing in an Independence Day video addressed to students:
I have no doubts that Shalit has been dead for some time. And even if through some miracle he is not, he will never ever be released alive. Israel must make a statement along these lines and make it publicly. And it must stop any and all insipid negotiations based on any release of Shalit. Period end of story. Even if Hamas slaps together some fake video that purports to show Shalit is still alive, Israel must ignore it. He was a victim of war, a POW who died in captivity.
"He was a victim of war, a POW who died in captivity."
But he was not a victim of war. He was kidnapped. And he is not a POW, he is held by a murderous organization for ransom. He is a human being, held by sociopaths who are coddled by the UN and who think he deserves no better than a pig. No mother who ever had a son about to go into the army can stop thinking about Gilad's torments.
This story is relevant:
"The people who went missing during Lebanon's civil war in the 1970s and 80s are in danger of being forgotten as their parents and siblings grow older. One mother I knew died without ever discovering what happened to her children."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/8652601.stm
The most absurd part of the Hamas "cartoon" was the Red Cross vehicle. Hamas has, of course, refused to allow Red Cross officials to visit Shalit.