Parents of kidnapped soldiers want diplomatic moves to secure their releas

[Poll_Blind]

From Ha'Aretz:

The families of the soldiers captured on the Lebanese border are demanding to know what diplomatic moves are afoot to free the soldiers - and whether a prisoner exchange is in the cards.

Addressing the media for the first time on Friday evening, the families urged the government "not to forget the abducted soldiers" and asked whether it was doing everything possible to release the soldiers. Eldad Regev of Kiryat Motzkin and Ehud Goldwasser of Nahariya were captured last Wednesday by Hezbollah guerrillas who crossed into Israel.

  Only during two raids, maybe three, in Gaza (at least one in the north and one in the south in the first few days) did this seem even remotely about rescuing Shalit. I can only guess at what is or isn't being done by Israel to recover them now that more soldiers have been taken or how some of the most agressive behavior twoard civilians is designed to ensure their safety. I know their rescue probably had little to do with the destruction of the famous Beirut Lighthouse or the massacre of 32 civilians, 15 of them children in a single strike.

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[wakeme2008]

1. I have wondered if both the soldiers were "taken"

Things could get interesting if one or both had just gone AWOL. :shrug:

[jwirr]

2. I would guess that will be the only way they get them back alive.

[Violet_Crumble]

3. It's unfortunate that no-one really listens to them...

But then, I'm pretty convinced that very little of what's happening now is about getting any of the soldiers back :(

[Chuckycheese123]

4. soldiers aren't coming back

Even if Israel had negotiated a settlement to bring them back, then what? More kidnappings for more blackmail? More rockets from Hamas and Hizbullah? What would be the point of negotiations if that's the case?

The only way for real peace is to destroy or at least severely cripple Hizbullah, and thus free Lebanon. Which of course makes Israel safer too.

[bowens43]

5. They weren't kidnapped, they were captured.

[Poll_Blind]

6. I agree...Just using the title JPost gave it. n/t

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[AnOhioan]

7. The soldiers have already been forgotten.

The conflict is not about them anymore than Iraq was about 9-11.

Their capture has been treated as an excuse for Olmert show that he can win a pissing contest with Hamas and Hezbollah.

Both sides are making strategic errors and both sides will lose by the time it is all over.