Dreaming with Hamas
The ongoing captivity Gilad Shalit is turning into a virtual propaganda boon for Hamas and its supporters. Ynet News:
Hamas-owned “Falasteen” journal published a “rare and special” interview with captive Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, an interview, which, only at the end of the report, turned out to be fabricated.
The paper’s political analyst Mustafa al-Sawwaf, was allegedly given the opportunity to interview the soldier in captivity, but at the end of his article, the journalist writes, “All this was in a dream, which I woke up from, after recording this interview.”
And what does Shalit learn in al-Sawwaf’s dream interview?
“I would not be exaggerating if I said I didn’t expect the treatment to be so good. Especially after I learned in school and in the army that the Arabs are murderers and criminals and that they deserve to die,” Shalit “said” in the fabricated interview.
“But these years I have spent here have proved to me that what I learned is not true and that they are people with feelings and that they love life and give civil and humane treatment, the opposite of what is said. I would like to end my words with a cry to my people – help me live, from your son, Gilad Shalit.”
If Shalit learned all Arabs are murders and criminals I don’t expect he learned that in an IDF basic training course…although, he might think so given his present circumstances but good thing it’s all a ‘dream’. I suspect Shalit would not necessarily characterize his kidnapping which resulted in the death of two of his comrades and the injuring of three others as particularly ‘civil’ or ‘humane’. Of course, there is also the fact he is held in such isolation that the Red Cross is not allowed to visit contrary to umteen laws regarding the treatment of prisoners of war.
