I'll let the esteemed Mr. Ostroff stress that difference.
Hello Cohavniks
I suggest that in our letters and interviews we stress the following which I have extracted from my letter to the Cosatu president.
The media and other opinion makers create the impression that there is a direct comparison between the captured Israeli soldiers and the Palestinians in Israeli jails. They ignore an all-important difference. The families of Palestinian prisoners in Israel know where their loved ones are. They visit them and communicate by telephone. By contrast, the Palestinians deliberately keep the families of captives in a state of unbearable anxiety by holding their captives incommunicado; emulating the late Yassir Arafat. In an exquisite refinement of torture in 1993, Arafat acknowledged that he knew the fate of missing in action soldier Zachary Baumel and handed one half of Baumel's identity tag to Yitzchak Rabin, with a firm promise that more information about Baumel and other MIA's would be forthcoming. He never kept that promise.
The least we should expect from the UN,Amnesty International and politicians who pronounce on the rights and wrongs of the situation, s that they strongly demand that the kidnapped soldiers be accorded the rights set out in the Geneva Conventions including visits by the Red Cross.
I suggest that in our letters and interviews we stress the following which I have extracted from my letter to the Cosatu president.
The media and other opinion makers create the impression that there is a direct comparison between the captured Israeli soldiers and the Palestinians in Israeli jails. They ignore an all-important difference. The families of Palestinian prisoners in Israel know where their loved ones are. They visit them and communicate by telephone. By contrast, the Palestinians deliberately keep the families of captives in a state of unbearable anxiety by holding their captives incommunicado; emulating the late Yassir Arafat. In an exquisite refinement of torture in 1993, Arafat acknowledged that he knew the fate of missing in action soldier Zachary Baumel and handed one half of Baumel's identity tag to Yitzchak Rabin, with a firm promise that more information about Baumel and other MIA's would be forthcoming. He never kept that promise.
The least we should expect from the UN,Amnesty International and politicians who pronounce on the rights and wrongs of the situation, s that they strongly demand that the kidnapped soldiers be accorded the rights set out in the Geneva Conventions including visits by the Red Cross.
You can find more of Maurice Ostroff's writing on his website.
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