Posted on 10/18/2011 5:42:15 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
Shalit Interview ....jockeying for the rights to conduct the first interview with Gilad after he returned home.
But they were all trumped by Egypt's state-controlled media – which conducted its own interview with Shalit, minutes after he was handed over to Egypt by his Hamas captors. Israeli officials are up in arms over that interview, with a government spokesperson saying that Israel had expressed its “shock” to the Egyptian government for forcing Gilad to go through what was clearly a very difficult experience.
The interview was conducted by veteran Egyptian TV personality Shahira Amin on behalf of the government-owned Nile TV news station. During the interview, Shalit appeared tired, pale, and even dazed, as he was asked what struck many Israelis as particularly odd questions. Among the questions Amin asked Shalit were whether, after knowing what it was like to be held captive, if he would campaign for the release of terrorists held in Israeli prisons for long periods, and whether “the experience had made him stronger.”
During the interview, it even appeared that Shalit was having difficulty breathing, many viewers said. Adding to the confusion was the fact that the interview was conducted in three languages: Amin asked questions in English, and they were translated into Hebrew for Gilad to answer, and into Arabic for the Egyptian audience. His responses were translated into Arabic and into English.
A senior Israeli official, speaking anonymously in order to avoid setting off further tensions between Israel and Egypt, told the Associated Press Tuesday night that Israelis “are all shocked that a so-called interview was forced on (Schalit) before he could even talk to his family or set foot on Israeli soil.”
The questions were politically loaded, the official said, with Shalit probably coached by Hamas on the questions and appropriate answers.....
(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...
Not since our Muslim in Chief helped convert the ruling power to Islam as he did Libya.
First the Shalit thing was done all wrong , Israel should have used force when the kidnapping first happened ,yes I’m glad he’s home but many jews that lost love ones in terror attacks got screwed badly.Second all of Israel enemies in the middle east knows or thinks the IDF is weak and the way the IDF is acting gives them no reason to think different , and now everybody is taking a shot at Israel until Israel gains the respect of there enemies again look for more of this , and there is nothing they can do about it. so they better put there trust in the lord.Plus are current Muslim president has not helped the problem.
Well, appears to be another blatant example of Israel ‘screwing’ Palestine again.
Getting 1 fine troop back for only 1000 Palestinian terrorists.
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It certainly wasn't torture. A violation of the Geneva Convention, close, but probably only if Egypt were the captor.
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