Families of captives fear they will be forgotten (IDF soldiers)

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Israel is not interested in her captured soldiers, they are only a pretext for her war on Lebanon!

Families of captives fear they will be forgotten

Focus has shifted to destruction of Hezbollah, they say

It was the capture of Regev, 26, and platoon-mate Ehud Goldwasser, 31 -- and the seizure of Cpl. Gilad Shalit, 19, near the Gaza Strip last month -- that touched off the wide new war raging in the Middle East. As the days have passed, the men's families have grown concerned that the increasing focus on geopolitics and the destruction of Hezbollah has overshadowed the plight of their loved ones, they said in interviews Tuesday.

After keeping a relatively low public profile, they have made impassioned pleas for information and for the government to negotiate with the captors.

"I don't want to get too much into politics, but people need to remember the reason all this began," said Ofer Regev, 34, another brother of Eldad, referring to Hezbollah's seizure of the soldiers. "It is a moral question, and yet, where is the international community? They are not doing enough."

"I want to believe what they say, that he is the main concern. I want to," said Shlomo Goldwasser, father of Ehud Goldwasser, slipping frequently into past tense when discussing his son, before correcting himself firmly. "Udi was -- is -- Udi is a very strong person. Mentally strong. So I know he is holding up. But he is a card in this game."

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