December 21, 2009 – Gilad Shalit

While we wait to see if Gilad Shalit will be “traded” we entertain some tourists from the mid-west. Who is “Gilad Shalit?” they ask. “What did he do to get captured?” “If he wasn’t in Gaza but on Israeli land why did they capture him?” “How did they capture him while he was sleeping? Isn’t that unethical?” “Why haven’t they let the Red Cross see him?” “Why have there been no communications with him?” “Who are the prisoners they are trading him for?” Their simple questions remind me how we have ignored the total outrage of his capture in order to get him back.