Gilad Shalit's fate is in the hands of IDF reservists

[azurnoir]

Soldiers and officers in an elite reserve battalion who served recently on the Egyptian border received the “hot return” order: Namely, every infiltrator from Africa, every refugee from Sudan and from Eritrea, must be cast into the wilderness lest they multiply.

Unlike their predecessors and their replacements on the line, the reservists immediately identified the black flag: In the thermal cameras, at night, it is possible to see the death and rape awaiting those expelled across the border. Where others looked away, they saw.

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Let us return to the reservists on the southern border: They also tell of a Sudanese family − men, women and children − whose entry to the base was prohibited. They sat them down in the freezing cold outside the gate. Hours passed and they were not removed. “We called the battalion and said that if within one hour they weren’t taken care of, we would contact the media to film them. Within half an hour a vehicle showed up.”

Next time you go on reserve duty, friends, tell your commanders similar things. If Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu does not show up within one hour − and Defense Minister Ehud Barak is invited to accompany him − and if he does not explain why Gilad Shalit is still an unrescued captive, why the casualty is still left bleeding on the battlefield, then you will call in the media to film Bibi, who seems to be everywhere you look but is absent precisely here. You aren’t Facebook. You are faces. It is necessary to talk to faces and you cannot be dismissed with an offhand “The government of Israel is doing everything.”

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/gilad-shalit-s-fate-is-in-the-hands-of-idf-reservists-1.358757