'Stop being indifferent'
Photo: Gil Yohanan
Mothers call for kidnapped soldiers' release
Dozens of women demonstrate outside prime minister's Jerusalem residence. 'It's only a matter of time before every mother will refuse to send her son to defend the State,' one of protestors says
Dozens of women demonstrated Tuesday outside Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's Jerusalem residence, urging him to bring the three kidnapped IDF soldiers
– Gilad Shalit, Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev – back home.
"It's only a matter of time before every mother educates her son to stay home and refuses to send him to defend the State," Osnat Vaturi, one of the protestors, told Ynet.
"Stop being indifferent, bring the sons back," Vaturi chanted during the demonstration. She warned against the grave results of the prime minister's conduct.
"When Ron Arad was kidnapped, Udi Goldwasser was eight years old. The handling of the three soldiers' abduction is only a symptom of what is happening here," she said.
"While the country fights draft dodgers, we as mothers continue to educate our sons to serve in the army," Vaturi noted, adding that "the sons feel there is no one behind them. My first commitment as a mother is towards my son."
Hila Zisberg from the "friends for the captives" forum, also took part in the demonstration. The forum she belongs to plans to hold the Passover seder outside Olmert's house. According to Zisberg, the abductees' friends expected many people to join the protest.
"We want to remind the prime minister that this is the second feast of freedom in which the captives have no freedom," she explained.
