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    Sarkozy meets Israeli soldier held hostage 5 years

    PARIS (AP) — An Israeli-French soldier who was held hostage for five years by Palestinian militants met Wednesday with French President Nicolas Sarkozy.

    Gilad Schalit has maintained a low profile since his release from captivity in Gaza in October in exchange for 1,027 Palestinian prisoners.

    But he made an unusual public appearance Wednesday, meeting with Sarkozy in his presidential palace in Paris. Schalit did not speak to reporters afterward, but left the palace with a smile, bundled against a winter cold snap. His parents were also at the meeting.

    "We are very moved," his father, Noam Schalit, said afterward. He thanked Sarkozy for his commitment to obtaining the soldier's release.

    Sarkozy praised Gilad Schalit for his "exemplary courage" and his parents for "their determination and their dignity in the face of the ordeal and the anguish," according to a statement from the president's office.

    At an annual dinner later held by the French Jewish community, Sarkozy castigated Schalit's captors.

    "Shame ... on those who did that," he said, adding that "no idea, no ideology, no situation can justify what was done to Gilad Schalit."

    Hamas-allied militants captured Schalit in a 2006 cross-border raid, and his plight captured Israel's attention for years.

    Sarkozy praised Israel for its own dogged efforts to return one of its sons, calling it a mark of Israel's democracy "because in a democracy we attach importance to one life" and "every family in Israel knows he can have a Gilad Schalit."

    He then advised Israel to file a complaint for the recent death of a young girl hit by a car driven by two French tourists who fled to France and cannot be extradited. The family of Lee Zeitouni, or the state, can file the complaint and the two French men could be tried in a French court.

    "I call for justice," Sarkozy said.

     

    19 comments

    • Jackson  •  3 mths ago
      "An israeli-french soldier"??? Was he french or was he israeli? In light of the tens of thousands of palestinians, many children, being held as prisoners in israel, many having never even been to trial, I can't get too teary eyed about Shalit. And hey, why didn't this article bring up the holocaust, the holocaust, the holocaust?
      • Jim B 3 mths ago
        Apparently you can be Israeli and French, No conflict of culture. However, One cannot be Arab and French. Too much conflict in ideology. In fact all cultures that gain an Arab majority become drab and Arab.
    • AUSCHWITZ THE MEANIN ...  •  3 mths ago
      " You're a "soldier" ? REALLY ?? No wonder you Jews really on weapons made by Americans and the West to fight !!"
      • trueblood 3 mths ago
        we'll slit your throat any time
      • Ruprecht 3 mths ago
        Trueblood must be a Stern gang reenactor
      • onechromosomeshortadouble ... 3 mths ago
        I am a profesional soldier, I have worked with many other soldiers around the world. The Isralies are some of the best. Believe it or not! But don't be an ignorant fool please.
    • Sanger  •  3 mths ago
      Why doesn't he go visit some of the families of the people his military murdered in libya?
    • kaboom  •  Wilsonville, Oregon  •  3 mths ago
      I was imprisoned by my wife, why dont I get the visit?
    • AUSCHWITZ THE MEANIN ...  •  3 mths ago
      " You're even uglier in person !! The more whine I drink the funnier you look !! Soon I will be so sloshed that your already dumbo sized ears will look like cabbage !!"
      • R 3 mths ago
        Your nothing but a piece of S#@T
      • trueblood 3 mths ago
        how about we slice your ears off and give them to Gilad and a gift...
      • Ruprecht 3 mths ago
        You could just bulldoze his house
    • Slaartibartfast  •  Epsom, United Kingdom  •  3 mths ago
      Angling for the Jewish vote perhaps?
    • REALITY CHECK  •  Oakland, California  •  3 mths ago
      Shalit was a soldier...a prisoner of war. Nothing more...nothing less. At the time of his release israel held 7,000-12,000 Palestinians in their jails. The Palestinians held ONE.
      NO sympathy for the devil..
      • Esteban 3 mths ago
        You are quite the d-o-u-s-c-h-e b-a-g.
        And you certainly are NO American.
        Take that flag off of your profile.
        You are fooling NO ONE!!
    • Amelia Sudirman  •  3 mths ago
      no sympathy for thief, colonialism, and real terrorist israhell aka zionism....and their friends...
    • REALITY CHECK  •  Oakland, California  •  3 mths ago
      Historically, thousands of Palestinian prisoners are held without charge or trial for years in zionist jails...Enough zionist media hypocrisy..No sympathy for the devil. Period
    • AUSCHWITZ THE MEANIN ...  •  3 mths ago
      " So how did you look before captivity " " Oy I was fatter"
    • REALITY CHECK  •  Oakland, California  •  3 mths ago
      Shalit was a tanker..protecting the violent malicious orthodox jew ILLEGAL "settlers"..

      No sympathy for the devil...
    • Bill White  •  Saginaw, Michigan  •  3 mths ago
      If the kid soldier had any sense at all he would stay in France and no go back to the middle east !!!
    • Jean bob  •  3 mths ago
      He does'nt even speak french but call himself french! go back to that hole of yours!!!!!
    • Ivan  •  3 mths ago
      Sarkozy is as lame as Shalit....that little piece of Shalit cost Israel 1,000 potentially murderous Palestinians to get him out. And Sarkozy only cozies up to Shalit for Jewish votes but he ain't gettin' 'em....
    • Voiceinthewind  •  3 mths ago
      This is news? Who the F_____ cares? Sarkozy is a good friend of The Shrub which puts him in the Dumb and Can't be trusted category.
    • AUSCHWITZ THE MEANIN ...  •  3 mths ago
      " You're a "soldier" ? No wonder you Jews hide in tanks and copters !! Everyone would otherwise kick your scrawny #$%$! or die laughing !! LOOK AT THOSE EARS !!!!!!!!!!!!
    • Ruprecht  •  3 mths ago
      Maybe next time, Shalits tank will have infantry around them.
    • Norske  •  Columbus, Ohio  •  3 mths ago
      Unleash the Jews of war! Israel should vanquish our enemies.
    • MAD AMERICAN !  •  Fremont, California  •  3 mths ago
      and he put his big nose up his #$%$ and said this is what freedom smells like !!
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