& more Israeli soldiars will be kidnapped in the future.

Can you trust Hizballah or Hamas??Tha last time we traded prisoners for Israeli soldiers they were returned dead.

It is with sadness that i realize that mr Goldwasser and the other parents from the captured soldiers,do not understand that they are not the same. What i mean is ,that their children are jewish and therefore are not going to get the same chance from the arabs. Also it is our own government that is not doing enough to get these boys free. But i agree that everything should be done to get them home,we owe that to them.

It is funny to hear the word kidnapped for soldiers between two countries in war. They are called war prisoners and they were not two harmfull chiken walking near to our borders, or not?? After last war, I think so and you may use kidnapped but without the word soldiers!

How do we know if they weren't killed during one of the Israeli attacks on Beirut during the war? I would assume they would have been kept in a pretty secure environment, which Israeli intelligence should know of most secure Hezbollah positions. To be honest there must be a reason why Israel is stalling on trying to get these soldiers released.

is how to surrender, betray your country, and convert to islam.

I think it is in your own benefit to visit the Lebanese prisoner and maybe take with you a gift and show some sympathy to them and to the 12,000 Palestinian. I think this will also encourage the other side to do the same. Please don't except current gov. to care, since they are the cause of this problem

Everybody sees the end of Europe, as we know it, and the author advises Israel to follow Britain over the cliff?

I think that you should visit the Israeli hostages, take a package to them, ascertain that they are even alive and then preach to the Israelis. Your refusal to impose moral judgment on the behavior of Arabs is troubling.

All our missing, Ron Arad, Zachary Baumel, Yehuda Katz, Tzvi Feldman, Gilad Shalit, Eldad Regev and Udi Goldwasser have one thing in common. Mr Goldwasser, they are all Jews and no one, not the Brits, not the Yanks, not the UN and certainly not the EU are going to do anything about getting them back. They might make a noise here and there but in the end we have to look after our own. Sir, you cannot compare our missing children, they are all our sons, to the British Personnel held by the Iranians. They are no Jews and Israelis and we don't have the UN veto or the membership of the EU that the UK has. The UN "stated" in Resolution 1701, brokered by the USA and the UK, that Udi and Eldad had be released. Have you seen Nasrallah shake in his boots? Many heads of states "friendly" to Israel have called for their release and for the release of Gilad. Did anyone call for sanctions on Syria. No they just condemned Israel for defending herslf. Anyone in the Arab World concerned? No! What you and others are asking is that Israel gives up the most basic principle: WE DO NOT NEGOTIATE WITH TERRORISTS! You can criticize Olmert as much as you like over the handling war but he is doing as much as is humanly possible to exert international pressure on the Arab World to get our boys back. I am sure that Sharon, Bibi, Barak and Peres would have done the same but we cannot allow Hezbollah or Hamas to think that they can extort by kidnapping. Do you really think that Israel should release Samir Kuntar who murdered 4 Israelis in Naharia? You say “direct negotiations”. Have you ever heard Hezbollah say it is prepared to negotiate? The last I heard was their wish to destroy our country. There are those, the Peace Now and Meretz people, would say give them whatever they want for "Peace". I am sure that you and most other Israelis know that what they really want is the whole of Israel and not just retreating to the 1967 borders. We all know what that would mean. Mr. Goldwasser, I am not in anyway criticizing the efforts that you, Mr. Shalit or Karnit Goldwasser are doing. On the contrary, I laud and applaud you all on your strength and efforts and I, as do many, many others, hope and pray that your children, who are the children of all Israelis, will come home safe and sound.

It's absolutely different: Ehud is prisonner in terrorists'hands. The 15 sailors were in one State's hands. They were protected by international rules, and Iran may have been condemnedin the UN. Hezb don't care about any condemnation. They don't have any respect towards israelis since Israel doesn't exist "officially" from their point of view.