Gilad Shalit

Benjamin Netanyahu On Iranian Threat: "The Issue Is Not The Security Of Israel But Of The World"

Newsweek | Posted 10.24.2009 | World


NEWSWEEK's Lally Weymouth spoke to Netanyahu in Jerusalem last week. Excerpts: WEYMOUTH: What did you think of the Goldstone report? NETANYAHU: I tho...

Working for Peace is a Form of Prayer

Bradley Burston | Posted 10.07.2009 | World


Bradley Burston

The exchange of several Palestinian women prisoners for IDF soldier Gilad Shalit could signal a tectonic shift in Israeli-Palestinian peace relations.

How To Kill Your Friends, Big and Small

Amjad Atallah | Posted 10.02.2009 | World


Amjad Atallah

Palestinians today woke up to two news stories -- one that made them celebrate and one that made them cringe. Unfortunately, the U.S. was not involved in the celebratory story.

Gilad Shalit Video Handed Over By Hamas In Exchange For Prisoners

AP/Huffington Post | AMY TEIBEL | Posted 10.03.2009 | World


JERUSALEM (AP)-- In the first glimpse of him since his capture more than three years ago, a thin but healthy-looking Israeli soldier said in a video r...

Gilad Shalit Video To Be Released In Exchanged For Palestinian Prisoners

AP | MARK LAVIE | Posted 09.30.2009 | World


JERUSALEM — In a surprise deal announced Wednesday, Hamas will give Israel a videotape providing a first glimpse of a captured Israeli soldier t...

Gilad Schalit Letter Details His "Intolerable And Inhumane Nightmare"

AP | DIAA HADID | Posted 11.09.2009 | World


JERUSALEM — An Israeli soldier seized by Palestinian militants more than three years ago described his captivity as an "intolerable and inhumane...

Gilad Shalit Health Unknown To Mubarak: Hamas Claims

Haaretz | Posted 08.08.2009 | World


A Hamas official on Wednesday said Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak didn't know what he was talking about when he said abducted Israel Defense Forces ...

Mubarak: Gilad Shalit Is In Good Condition, Issue Will Hopefully Be Resolved Soon

AP | ARON HELLER | Posted 08.07.2009 | World


CAIRO — An Israeli soldier being held in Gaza by Hamas militants is alive and in good condition, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said Tuesday, ...

Gilad Shalit Mocked By Hamas TV Cartoon

AP | Posted 08.06.2009 | World


JERUSALEM — Hamas TV in Gaza has broadcast a short animated movie mocking an Israeli soldier captured by the militant Islamic group three years ...

Weekly Foreign Affairs Roundup

Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet | Posted 07.27.2009 | World


Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet

The Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs : The End of Iran's Post-Electoral Uprising... for now Facts: Protests initially spread from Tehran to the t...

Gilad Shalit To Be Transfered To Egypt: Europeans

Haaretz | Posted 07.26.2009 | World


European diplomatic sources said Thursday that kidnapped Israel Defense Forces soldier Gilad Shalit will be transferred to Egypt in the coming hours o...

Israel Pulling Forces Out Of 4 West Bank Cities After Obama Pressure

AP | ARON HELLER | Posted 07.26.2009 | World


JERUSALEM — Bowing to pressure from Washington, Israel granted U.S.-trained Palestinian security forces greater autonomy in four main West Bank ...

Gilad Shalit: 3 Years In Captivity Marked By Student Rally

Haaretz | Posted 07.17.2009 | World


Dozens of students from kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit's old high school held a rally in his village of Mitzpe Hila Tuesday to mark three year...

Gilad Shalit Father, Noam Shalit, Says Son Won't Be Freed Soon

Jerusalem Post | Posted 05.09.2009 | World


His son Gilad is unlikely to be freed from Gaza any time soon, Noam Schalit told reporters after he left his first meeting with Prime Minister Binyami...

The Right To Freedom Of Movement In The Holy Land Must Be Restored

Daoud Kuttab | Posted 04.24.2009 | World


Daoud Kuttab

Israel's willingness to abort the Shalit deal by insisting that some Hamas prisoners must be deported reveals a long-term problem, namely Israel's intention to hold on to the West Bank indefinitely.

Free Gilad Shalit

Shunit Harpaz | Posted 04.23.2009 | World


Shunit Harpaz

A new approach is needed in dealing with militant groups such as Hamas -- the world needs to engage them constantly, challenge their ways. Over two-thousand years ago, Sun-Tzu said "keep your friends close and your enemies closer".

Weekly Foreign Affairs Roundup

Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet | Posted 04.20.2009 | World


Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet

The Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs: Quagmire of the year: Hamas-Israel There is an endless amount of news this week dealing with Israelis and P...

Let Shalit Go

Jamal Dajani | Posted 04.20.2009 | World


Jamal Dajani

Israel has been negotiating with Hamas, almost a thousand days have passed, more than a thousand lives have been lost. Let the prisoners and Shalit go home.

Israel-Hamas Prisoner Talks Fail

Al Jazeera English | Posted 04.17.2009 | World


Israel has accused Hamas of hardening its stance in Egyptian-brokered talks on exchanging hundreds of Palestinian prisoners for a captured Israeli sol...

In the Shadow of Gilad Shalit's Captivity

Ilana Teitelbaum | Posted 04.17.2009 | World


Ilana Teitelbaum

How can I go to bed at night knowing that kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit probably has no bed?

Gilad Shalit Deal May Be Reached In Next 24 Hours: Haaretz

Haaretz | Posted 04.16.2009 | World


CAIRO ? Sources close to indirect Israel-Hamas negotiations over Gilad Shalit told Haaretz Monday there was a real possibility that a deal for the abd...

Israel Will Exchange All 450 Hamas Prisoners For Gilad Shalit: Haaretz

Haaretz | Posted 04.13.2009 | World


Israel has agreed to free all 450 of the prisoners demanded by Hamas in exchange for kidnapped Israel Defense Forces soldier Gilad Shalit, and the dis...

Hamas: We Have Video Of Gilad Shalit

The Telegraph | Dina Kraft | Posted 04.09.2009 | World


Hamas officials have claimed they have made a videotape of captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit that proves he is in good condition. But Moussa Abu M...

Gaza Aid Must Be Dependent On Soldier's Release: Congressional Proposal

Haaretz | By Natasha Mozgovaya | Posted 04.05.2009 | World


A new initiative from members of the United States Congress calls for the transfer of the $900 million pledged by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton f...

Can Gaza Be Rebuilt Through Tunnels? The Blockade Continues--No Supplies, No Rebuilding

Ann Wright | Posted 03.30.2009 | World


Ann Wright

How do you rebuild 5,000 homes, businesses and government buildings when the only way supplies come into the prison called Gaza is through tunnels?