Mourning Ehud and Eldad

July 17, 2008 - 6:56 AM by Jessica

Yesterday and today are times in which I can’t ignore the news, blithely continuing on with my own life and concerns. The return of Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev’s bodies to their families and to the country set off a spate of mourning for Israelis, as we all hoped against hope that they would possibly, maybe, still be alive.

One can only imagine what their families are going through now, their parents, siblings, Ehud Goldwasser’s wife, Karnit, as they begin the formal mourning process of saying goodbye to Ehud and Eldad. But they’re not in this alone.

The whole country, nay, many in the world around them, are mourning with them. From the synagogues holding special yizkor services for them, to the many people — strangers to the family — who will attend the funerals, make comments on Facebook groups and those of us who just get lost in thought while listening to the radio, watching their images on television or reading the accounts in the newspapers, we are thinking about these men and these families and what they have lost.

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7 Comments on Mourning Ehud and Eldad

  1. Matthew on Thu, Jul 17th 2008 2:37 PM

    2. A very sad moment for their families indeed. Kuntar will probably be smiling over their graves, as he is welcomed with cheers in Lebanon :-@

  2. Gliker on Thu, Jul 17th 2008 8:04 PM

    3. May God bless their souls. They are our heroes.

  3. David-Joe on Fri, Jul 18th 2008 1:20 AM

    4. What about the family of the little girl who was murdered with the butt of a rifle after watching her father beibg shot dead on the Nahariya beach?

    This is not morality that Israel has carried out. The men were soldiers and usurping justice based on the immoral ethic of sacrifice [giving up values] now makes targets of all Israeli soldiers. Why should any future kidnapping not end in swapping dead Israeli soldiers for live Arab terrorists? Nothing.

    Israel has showed that it does give in to pressure and has lost its will to win.

    It was not always like this. As a kid on a border kibbutz with Jordan I remember being told that we too were soldiers and that should anything happen, not only must we be brave to fight but that we could not expect the kibbutz to be out in danger for our individual sake.

    It made us strong and not soft. We understood that Israel had not choice and could never give in, ever.

    Since then Israel has changed and I wonder if it is even going to exist in fifty years time.

    It is a terrible disgrace what Olmert has done. I am ashamed of Israel for being so weak and giving in to emotionalism.

  4. Terah on Fri, Jul 18th 2008 9:19 PM

    5. Somehow, I like the idea of returning DEAD bodies for other dead bodies!

  5. David-Joe on Sun, Jul 20th 2008 3:55 AM

    6. Israel does not have the guts to implement a death penalty for terrorists. You have to remember that we are the Israel of the 21st century – craving acceptance and likeability from the world, placing our own soldiers at risk to save the child of an enemy and obeying not the Talmud rules for war but the Christian, St Augustine doctrine when it comes to military matters – “The Just War Theory”.

    And the Iranians are banking on this – that Israel will say lots but do nothing and will ultimately in its timidity accept a nuclear Iran. Given Sderoty maybe the Jewish DO enjoy being victims.

    I am an Israeli of the old school and I understand that to “Live Free Or Die” cannot be negotiated as the Israel of the 21st century tragically believes.

  6. Nicky on Mon, Jul 21st 2008 10:30 AM

    7. Interesting, Kuntar announced that he was jealous of Israel, because the country makes so much effort to get its soldiers home, even if they are dead.
    What can we make of that?

  7. ken on Wed, Jul 23rd 2008 1:36 AM

    8. The correct response to hezbollah would have been to inject kuntar and one other prisoner with a slow acting poison so that the the hezbollah leadership would have received the same exchange……two dead bodies.

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