Israel On Tenderhooks

These are not happy days in Israel. It's like coming to visit a family waiting for news about it's kidnapped injured child and the news is that another one was gone. Israel is a very intimate family and no one is thinking about anything else.

Of course, a search party is out - in this case it is the Israeli army in Gaza. Everybody hopes that additional loss of life can be avoided. The government is trying to find ways to pressure the kidnappers by discomforting the life of their Palestinian citizens.

MSM helps.... Euro news, BBC, CNN and Dubai news follow the terrorists script meticulously. (LGF has them acting even worse. They pit Israeli in tanks vs. Palestinian women (dressed in Hamas garb) demanding the release of women and children. - Do remember those are women and children sent by the PA to blow themselves up to kill Israelis and become martyrs. MSM, of course, fails to mention... that the PA creates such a disfunctional, debased society that sitting in an Israeli prison sounds good to some Palestinian youngsters.

The Israeli MSM, like the US one, is busy in self criticism. The Israeli MSM is to the left of the American one. So, they report that the Israeli right is praising the Gaza operation. In a democracy, politics is ever present.

But the people, the people ignore the background noise and focus on the father who asked his son to try to survive. The people hear the Palestinians give the middle name of the other soldier and they know he is indeed kidnapped and his kidnappers got hold of social security card. They hear that warning of plans to kidnap additional soldiers and they know that no matter how many times they asked their sons and daughters not to hitchike, its all for naught.

All we do is pray and hope against hope. The kidnappers are threatening to butcher their hostages in front of cameras.