Miki Goldwasser To Olmert: Come Back To Your Senses

(IsraelNN.com) Miki Goldwasser wrote on an Israeli Hebrew website Thursday that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert should "come back to your senses" and stop making goodwill gestures to the Palestinian Authority (PA). She wrote on Ynet the day after Prime Minister Olmert and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni offered to free an unspecified number of Arab terrorists.

"A gesture for what?" she wrote. "I was crying after I heard it. The grave of my son is still fresh. The pain is terrible. Yet despite this, I cannot but think all the time about Aviva Shalit, Gilad’s mother, who needs to cope with oh-so-humanitarian Israeli gestures while her own son is held in cellars of horror."

She said she wants talks with Hamas to advance, but did not state what Israel should offer to secure the release of kidnapped IDF soldier Gilad Shalit. The bodies of Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser were returned last month, two years after they were kidnapped and killed by Hizbullah terrorists. Israel freed five Lebanese terrorists, including child killer Samir Kuntar and four Hizbullah guerillas in return for the bodies.