Did the US news lie about Israeli soldiers being kidnapped?

Question

After reviewing several articles, many questions go unanswered:

1. How does a soldier get himself kidnapped? What kind of incompetent soldier back home in Israel gets himself kidnapped? It doesn't make much sense and the US media doesn't explain how it happened.

2. Why, in the press release pictures from the Israeli representatives visiting New York, do few of the pictures of one of the "kidnapped" soldier's not show her expressing any grief? She even looks pleased?! Were I the wife of a kidnapped soldier I would at least look embarassed, if not upset or depressed! But a big GRIN?? What? Did she want a divorce before or something and always wanted a free trip to NYC? Happy he's out of the way of an affair? WHAT?

3. I still don't get how the response to a kidnapping is seige of an entire country... I just don't get it.

Someone please make some sense of all this because it's really screwed up!

Sorry if I didn't specify sources. I'd like to see additional sources. So much is made up on the net though, you know?

How judgemental of you to recognize that I am judgemental. I'll keep thinking for myself, but thanks for the advertizement for thoughlessness today.

As a matter of fact, I think suicide bombing is stupid and senseless.

I just want the facts, not vague notions. You hear or read a lie and accept it for face value - that's what makes me want to vomit.

I have enough information now to surmise that "kidnapping" is not the correct terminology for what happened. A soldier caught awake and active on a mission soldier by enemy forces is not "kidnapped," but "captured." The soldier was apparently on a recon mission into Lebanon and was actually ACROSS the Lebanese border - a clear breach of neutrality and Lebanese sovereignty. Those Israelis are covering up the fact of their own planned invasion with semantics. I have no love of Hezbollah, but I HATE people that lie to me to persuade me to accept their doing something morally questionable as "justified." Both sides reprehensible to me, but so are those that whine that I'm mean. Whatever. Fight your own damn wars - and not on MY tax dollars!!

Answer 1

they were ambushed where 3 killed & two injuried ..these two were treated later on .

2- do not blame the mothers ..ofcourse they are hppy if they were sons of other mothers it then means there children will be killed during fighting hezbollah .@ least this accertain their life .
& between the sent a letter to hezbollah asking their leader to protect their children.

3-well the attack thing was prepared by israel before the kidnapping.they are preparing it so long .they wanted to do all this in october .but they thought they are prepared enough & can do it now .so they started this stupidity.

Answer 2

as far as question 1 - a soldier sleeps and everything else just like a regular person. I don't know that the soldiers were on duty when they were kidnapped, but that can happen too if the soldier was caught by surprise.

I haven't seen any of the pictures you refer to in question 2, so I can't reliably speak to that.

As far as 3 Israel has had a policy of overreaction in place for a long time now. I have the feeling Hezbollah counted on that for two things. One, they might have wanted to take the heat off of Palestine and draw fire away from there and that craziness. Two, they make Israel look like a bad guy (which this policy is wrong).

This doesn't condone the actions either side took. Both are wrong, especially what has been happening as this fighting escalates. Killing of innocents is never acceptable.

Answer 3

What makes you think that a soldier cannot be kidnapped? Soldiers are captured all the time. It's happened in every war.

You are very judgmental! How do you know how you would act if you were in her shoes? Even a grieving widow can find a reason to smile now and then.

Did you have your head in the sand prior to the kidnapping? Were you this outraged when Hezbollah was sending homicide bombers into Israel to blow themselves up in the midst of innocent Israelis?

If anyone has a screwed up sense of what is going on in the Middle East, it's you. Talk about getting it backwards!

Answer 4

whether the kidnapping was real or not is irrelevant, we were looking for the first thing to nail someone to the cross with and found it, if I am pissed at you, you can walk on eggshells be as sweet as pie and I can either forgive you ,be an adult and move on or I can lie in waiting and the first moment you slip up or make any suggestion of wrong nes, I can use it to justify my strong response of retaliation, same principle appliews here, war is wrong period.