this letter should have never been published. Both my sons served in the army, one in Givati, and the other on the Golan as a merkava 3 driver... war is war. This article r gives comfort to the enemy and only can encourge him in the future to snatch more soldiers.. and for the time being to fire more missiles to Sderot, and sooner or later to a much sweeter target Ashkelon. The right of the public to know must include the warning that this right can further encourage the enemy....Just as cigarretes are sold with a warning that they can cause cancer, this article should be published with the warning that it can cause MORE WAR.

and it will be bitter, you can count on it.

to a group of heartless terrorists. They know you don't mean it and are not impressed with your hypocrisy. You'd be much better off praying and having your friends and Jews all over the world pray for your son's release. There are many great Rabbis and Mekubalim you should appeal to and who would tell you what to do. With Hashem's help your son will be free soon.

Listen up dude..I am a father too. You can bet your bottom doillar I would turn heaven and earth for my kids, but I would really wish you would shut up. You are losing what support there may be for you in the general public. Just shut up, and have some dignity. There many many fathers who have lost sons and daughters for Israel over the past 100 years. You dont see them behaving like a shmatta. I am sorry for you but the more you talk, the less people will care for you.

Noam Shalitt is in a bad position, but the media should have some ethics in not exploiting his grief and madness. When he returns to sanity he will rue these acts of craveness and hate the media for making him into a circus.

for the sins of his father.

Mr. Shalit, i hate to say that but Zahar does not give a damn about your letter. You are dealing with people that have no mercy, no feelings and no morals. Thet glorify death and will kill or kidnapp more of your sons if they had the opportunity. Trying to "humanize" them does not achieve any thing!!! I know that you are trying to act as a civlized person, but i am afraid that they do not deserve any sympathy from you or from any one else...

...for writing this letter: He is neither insane nor a fool. He understands that after all, despite all the hate and killing, there are human beings on both sides. He gives the conflict a touch of humanity and if the conflict in the Middle East will ever be solved in a peaceful way it will be thanks to people like Noam Shalit. You guys who dehumanize the Palestinians and want to carpet-bomb Gaza are a guarantee that the conflict will continue and that both sides will have to moan more senseless killings.

to receive sympathy from a compassionate man like him. There will be no angel to stop the hand of Al-Zahar from his bloody jihad sacrifice. Not even the pain of losing two sons will melt the icy heart of a man who sacrifices them on the altar of his religion.

If a swap deal is done,there will be more kidnappings. No Israeli soldier is safe .Releasing hundreds of Terrorists from the Israeli Prison terror UNIVERSITIES . Let Hamas know if they harm him ,then Dr Med Zahar will be sent in a big Hamas delegation to join his 2 sons in the Virgin Paradise .

"there are human beings on both sides" Both, in Germany and among Arabs?

"you guys who dehumanize the palestinians"?? did you know that the nazis used to train dogs to (regularly) rape young teenage Jewish girls in front of their mothers? Now be quiet.

Well, if I post my true opinion about people like you here, my comment will certainly be censored. Nevertheless, your horizon is very narrow. Though I am living in Berlin, I am not German. I have nothing to do with the Holocaust. Even if I were a German, I would have the right to comment. I think the simplicity of your pathetic comments speaks for itself.

Shallit's dad may console Zahar. Unfortunately, Zahar is crusading the Islamist-Jihadist world to destroy Israel. Israel should educate themselves of the evil that surrounds them.

animals. They (the terrorists, that is,) have already dehumanized themselves. These "people" that you defend have no trouble viewing Israeli citizens as "dehumanized" objects worthy of being fired upon with rockets and mortars. What goes around, comes around. You make yourself irrelevant with your dim-witted defense of Palestinian "victimhood." They are NOT THE ONLY VICTIMS WHO ARE SUFFERING HERE!!!

NOT! I hope you're next!

If anything the holocaust taught us , is that when you strip a human of political and religious ideologies, you see standing in front of you a person like yourself. And as you look into that persons eye you see vulnerability and a need to be loved as you yourself have need. Its all these other things that are wicked that come in and cause hate and destruction. Shalits Father did a 'good' thing he showed mercy and kindness . may God reward him with the same.

of a terrorist trying to kill Jews? Is he mentally disturbed. Shalit should be asking for the I.D.F. to bomb gaza till Gilad returns safe and sound. He should demand no electricity,water,food,fuel and medical supplies be sent into gaza.