Hamas has vested interests in keeping Shalit alive and keeping the average Gazan starving. When will people like you wake up and realize the main reason innocent people in the Middle East suffer is because bleeding hearts in the West buy into Islamist propaganda?

Lets pay what ever price we have to - in the enemy's BLOOD. to get him back!!

free the hostages of palestine get gilad kiss and make up withdraw from west bank let them have their state and live in peace god speed to all

I'm happy that he's alive. Hamas is keeping him alive for a reason. They know that releasing a living Israeli soldier will make them look good. They've kept him alive this long. I don't think they will kill him.

My name is Natan and yours??Hiding behind an email ha?. You are notorious for hiding . Sometimes it's behind women and children. How the hell do you wake up in the morning look in the mirror and not vomit>???

i am happy that he was alive till that video was made, and truly hope he'll make it home. what i am not happy with, that israel has totally capitulated to terrorism, sold out all principals of STATE FIRST, and gegrading the memories of all heroes whom fought and died for israel before and after shalit. BTW. WHERE IS THE GREAT SHIN BETH, MOSSAD AND ALL OTHER ORGANIZATIONS PROTECTING ISRAEL??? LOVE ISRAEL STILL.

Release Gilad in 1 hour or we fire bomb Gaza back to the stone age!! We start with Haniya's house.

I really hope this doesn't end in tragedy. At least Palestinian prisoners get to see their families. All those who defend Palestinian rights should take a good look at how cruel and unfair Hamas is to use someone as a pawn while at the same time demanding their people be treated with respect and compassion. It is truly sickening.

Israel has to recognize first the Palestinian statehood of Gaza, for the Palestinians to sign the Geneva convention. Only then Palestinians would be more than happy to allow visits to Gilad.

I want to thank all of you who pray for gilad because he cant. Gilad , stay strong!!!!!

Its good to know he is still alive and everything should be done to bring him home but at the same time there must be limits to the price the government pays and so far Hamas demands of over 1000 terrorists including men with blood on their hands is a price to high and will only lead to more kidnappings. Hamas & Fatah recently formed a pact with the intent on kidnapping more soldiers for the purpose of trading them because they have seen that the government will buckle under to their demands. The reason Gilad was taken in the first place was because even Israels constantly acts weak. Sharon released 400 Hizbollah terrorists for the corpses of 2 soldiers and a drug dealer Olmert released 200 terrorists including Samir Kuntar for 2 corpses. Now Hamas want Netanyahu to release over 1000 for Gilad. If we keep agreeing to pay these kinds of high prices then it will just lead to more Gilad Shalits and nobody will be safe not only from kidnappings but from potential terror attacks from people who are currently safe in jail. In the 90s under oslo hundred of terrorists were released either out og goodwill or politcs killed again. Do we want more Israeli civilians murderd as a result of prisoner releases? Get Gilad home but ignore the calls of Noam Shalit and Gilads supporters who say no price is to high and only pay a responsible price otherwise others will suffer for Gilads freedom in future.

Clear antisemites, and worthless idiots. Not a dollar shall be sent to them

in the last 10 seconds of the video when Gilad stood up, you can see clearly that he was in Uniform. Although the Palestinians has not signed the Geneva convention and are not mandated to abide by it, they still honor it despite their non recognition by Israel. How many Palestinians died in Israel's captivity in the last 3 years?

I really hope this doesn't end in tragedy. At least Palestinian prisoners get to see their families. All those who defend Palestinian rights should take a good look at how cruel and unfair Hamas is to use someone as a pawn while at the same time demanding their people be treated with respect and compassion. It is truly sickening.

none! do your research and find out for yourself. not one single prisoner died in israeli jails.

A US soldier was kidnapped in Afghnistan (not from the US). The US military is sparing no effort to locate him. After the initail news, nothing more is being reported. In other words, silence is golden in this situation. Gilads' parents and others in Israel are being played with by Hamas, Hez and the Palestinian street. The Red Cross denied access? If Tel Aviv is nuked..will the UN say anything? There is a war going on folks. Prisoner releases must be proportional....not one sided. Yes, getting him back is important, but at what price? Released terrorists will commit terror again..more Jews captured. Observer asks, how many Arabs have died? I am not aware of any..does he know? Shalit did nothing but be a soldier, terrorists are thugs, murderers, criminals, who target civiilians. Israel''s mistake: not having capital punishment for convicted murderers, instead they are released. Arafat and Hitler are saying, "I told you so, the Jews are timid, hapless..they cannot run a state". Hamas and Hez are enjoyingall of this, at our expense. To Israel: bomb them 24-7, until it hurts and he is released. If one hair is upset...no mercy.

Nice try.The only reason he is alive is this boy serves as a bargaining chip.

innocent, since the Lord used a prison in Egypt to refine Joseph the son of the Patriarch Jacob when Joseph had done no wrong. It was for the Lord's purpose that he was taken into slavery and then into prison for 13 years. When there are terrible things that happen in your life, one of two things happens: you curse God or you grow closer to the Lord. Alexander Solzenitzen of Russia wrote books on his years in a Gulag Archipelago where he was sent for being a dissident. There is much that he learned there, but the greatest thing was to love the Lord with all his heart, mind, and soul. The Lord needed a great author and sent Solzenitzen to a Gulag to become what the Lord needed him to be so that others might learn from those lonely and terrible years. So close did Solzenitzen become to the Lord that he preferred the country that imprisoned him for no reason to the country that welcomed him but reflected badly in ways: bad music, bad manners, bad morals is how Solzenitzen put it. He went back to Russia where there is better music, better manners, and better morals even though there was little tolerance for political dissidents. Time will tell if Gilad Shalit becomes a writer or a general or a politician or a Ron Arad who is never reunited with his family. Solzenitzen became a writer and oh! what a writer he was.

..how Hamas was forced by Israel to keep Gilad alive all these years, and at the same time forced by Iranians to send their own sons to die needlessly in that hopeless war. Didn't they see the proof of their own stupidity, betrayal of their people, betrayal of human race? Idiots.

How long has Jonathan Pollard been in US custody ? I'll bet Gilead is released long before Polllard sees the light of day. There is smothing wrong with Israel's relationship with its supposed friend and ally ,something very wrong. The silence from Israel's to his plight is tragic.

Quote :"Gazans don't have basic food, you want them to put Gilad in 5 star hotel. At least he looks better than majority of Gazans " =============== Gazans wouldn't be starving if Hamas would stop firing qassams and other terror activities....sue for real peace not HUDNA and recognize israels right to exist ! hamas destoryed the food producing green houses left behind by the israelis... can't blame israel for closing border crossings when there is an avowed interest in killing jewish citizens by HAMAS....there is a simple solution sue for real peace..... !

We need to get him back but lets not kid anyone into thinking that how we treat Arab prisoners shows us a righteous nation. We know what goes on between brother and brother and a growing bad reputation in business. Lets turn it around. Face it, we need to get God on our side to establish lasting peace in this "good land". This is a conditional home for us. Don't do Torah and these monsters will be our captors as well. Lets clean up our act (do Torah) and lets stike back at this enemy for mistreating prisoners but lets do it having God with us. I agree with #4. Additonally lets make their diet as bland as possible (water no soda) till we see a better video of gilad and get regular nonbias medical examinations by a neutral party. I fear they have commit crimes on Gilad and that means we will never get him back because he will witness war crimes against them.

them to the border and erect a tall gallows for the 10 worst of the hamas leadership. There is no way we should have let would be murderers and mothers of murderers free. israel, grab all the terrorists you can, all the hamas leaders you can. make a trade then. 1 for 1. haniyeh for gilad none of this 100 terrorists for 1 soldier lunacy

Hamas has not allowed the Red Cross to visit Gilad Shalit. Hamas does'nt dare kill Gilad as he makes a huge bargaining chip for them.

I see that "Observer" is now the new spokesman for the Palestinians. You really havent got a clue of the facts.

They told the meat we're delivering is too hard. So unless you think sirloin steak is basic food, you're a liar. Or you believe Jimmy Carter which is a known liar.

he looks bone thin, like in pictures of concentration camp inmates. they have obviously been feeding him only enough to keep him alive and no more than that...

absolutely - no excercise no sun and possibly drugged reading a scripted message. his parents must be really desperate now.