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The best way to save Gilad Shalit

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The best way to save Gilad Shalit

By Yehuda Wegman

Article published in the Mekor Rishon 25.07 .08, translated from Hebrew by Meir Ben-Hayoun.

NDLT Yehuda Wegman is a colonel in reserve. It is one the few theorists Israeli defense system. He was responsible for eleven years to train company commanders and battalion commanders and was an instructor at the School of Command and Staff.

One of the reasons to demand the release of Gilad Shalit as soon as possible and in some the price is based on the precedent of the disappearance of Ron Arad. This comparison is baseless. Ron Arad has been neither seen nor heard, since he was ejected from his plane, so we could not bear the responsibility of his captivity an organization and a well-defined. For Gilad Shalit, is another matter. Shalit is being held by Hamas. This organization prides itself on keeping in captivity and provide for his needs. The two letters sent by Hamas Gilad to his family confirmed the sole responsibility of this organization and its leaders about the fate of the Israeli prisoner.

The way to prevent Hamas from subjecting Shalit what we want to warn those who compare his case to that of Ron Arad is very simple

The State of Israel should not give rise any ambiguity on two key issues to the attention of Ismail Haniyeh and the Hamas leadership. Firstly, Israel considers them fully responsible for Shalit's survival, its proper treatment and his health. Second, any attack against Shalit, or its disappearance would lead to the violent liquidation of Haniyeh and all the political apparatus of Hamas, as was the case with Sheikh Ahmed Yassin and Dr. Abdel Aziz Rantisi.

It is very surprising that a former head of Shin Bet (internal security services), Reserve General Ami Ayalon, will bring the voice of the similarity between the case where Shalit and Arad - which would require a mass release of murderers in exchange for a single soldier prisoner. Ami Ayalon, courageous fighter, distinguished himself from the highest mark of military valor for his role in the raid on the Green Island * in 1969. Is his vision of security would have been submerged by the tidal wave of populist slogan "bring the children to more quickly and at any price"

"Kol Israel" (and the site Guysen, audios) regularly counting days of captivity of Shalit. Does the metronome defeatist station Israeli public radio has was due to the hardness of the former Navy fighter commandos?

The Shalit's comrades have joined Ayalon and those who rush to have him released at any price. The Company soldiers Gilad did not demonstrate exceptional operational capability the fateful day when their comrade had been captured. Immediately after hanging up the uniform, they started a campaign compassionate hyper-publicized that led them straight to the Minister of Defence. We can assume that following the capture of Shalit, they have drawn lessons and have improved their operational efficiency. It would have been better if they are not greeted with full honors at the Ministry of Defence precisely in a context related to their greater operational fiasco.

In the absence of clear military standards and with the enthusiastic support of the media, those who have indirectly contributed to the success of the abduction of Shalit, were received by guests of Defense. It is therefore not surprising that the legs of those demobilized have done everything right in the office of Defense Minister Barak to the contribution conditions favorable to the abduction of soldiers created by him just before the second Lebanon war. After each

kidnapping Israeli thinking has become accustomed to not be limited to the terms of negotiations and exchange of prisoners instead invest in military operational aspects so as to find creative solutions that would of serious blow to the enemy. This conception of negotiations was unfortunate consequences inducing a defeatist attitude in the public and freezing military thinking.

When the government focuses only on trade horizons prisoners, it exempts the IDF's role to propose solutions to the problems of military daring abduction of Israeli soldiers. The exclusivity given to reflection as that in force today could never give rise to outcomes such as Operation Entebbe in 1976 or the abduction of Syrian officers in 1972, which allowed prisoners to recover our soldiers then Damascus.

IDF Why should contrive to find solutions to high risk if already Haim Ramon, who sends feelers Olmert, suggests that it will take "more flexibility in the criteria for releasing Palestinian prisoners, while the existing criteria have melted like snow in the sun after the previous prisoner exchanges.

The current Israeli government has a very slim chance of escape - a radical conceptual shift for everything related to the captivity of Shalit.

First, the Prime Minister will have to jettison any trading mentality that has been inoculated and is based on a misconception that Gilad is seeking a "child". It must refer to Gilad Shalit as a national hero, not just a record of compassion. It should be considered a combatant isolated in enemy territory that must be measured as best he can, as the heroes of previous generations of IDF. Such an approach will inspire those around him, if not to himself if not completely cut off from the outside world, the forces needed to fight to bring him back home without the exchange of cons Hundreds of killers whose release will generate no doubt the death of many Israelis.

And the media in all this? As the media are deprived of a magma column spine and any values, it is easily conceivable that they will adapt very quickly to this new standard.