That's right. Stop right now. Hamas is once again using psychological warfare and we shouldn't let them.
If they want to play this game, we have to stop them.
According to several news sources, Hamas' second in command, Musa Abu Marzouk, was quoted as saying that kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit may have been killed by Israeli bombs during the Gaza War. Hamas officials made a similar claim during the course of the war.

There can be no "may have been" two weeks after the war. Hamas knows where Gilad is and, more importantly, how he is. If they want to play this game, we have to stop them.

If what Hamas says is true, then there really is no reason for us to continue negotiations. We are pulling out of all discussions - about opening the crossings, about releasing 1,000 prisoners - until we receive firm and confirmed proof that Gilad is alive and well. We demand that Red Cross officials be allowed to see Gilad, talk to him, touch him. Only then, only then, will we even talk to anyone from Hamas about continuing.

During the recent elections, some soldiers chose to use their vote to send a message to the government. They didn't vote for Kadima or Likud, National Union or Israel Beiteinu. They voted with a blank slip that said simply, "Israel wants Gilad Shalit." They voted for Gilad. It is time Israel's leaders wake up. It is time the world stops dreaming. Gilad can be brought home with a national and international effort.

I recently had a run-in with a "journalist" in Jakarta who used a picture of my son in uniform illegally. Wanting to write about Israel in a negative way, this so-called journalist violated copyright laws and took a picture of my son from my blog. I wrote to him and told him he had 24 hours to remove the picture or face an international lawsuit. The picture was down within five minutes.

Today, this minute, let the world say to Gaza: you have 24 hours to return Gilad Shalit or you will be removed from the United Nations, all aid suspended. Your representatives will be kicked out of all countries. Your people will not be allowed entry into Israel on humanitarian grounds or any other. Israel will stop the water we supply, the electricity we supply. Your phone system, that part that comes from Israel, will be stopped.

We will close all borders - yes, we are prepared to make one million Palestinians suffer. Or more accurately, you are prepared to make one million Palestinians suffer rather than do what is right. No mother should be separated
You are prepared to make one million Palestinians suffer rather than do what is right.
from her son for three years simply because he wore green clothes and stood near a border. Gilad was kidnapped from Israeli soil and must be returned. When there is a united effort, the likes of which the Palestinians have never seen - when the United Nations threatens withdrawing all aid; when the Egyptians demand it; when the French and the Germans and the Americans refuse to deliver even one dollar in aid - humanitarian or otherwise, Gilad will come home.

You have 24 hours to return Gilad, healthy and well. If this answer is delivered the right way, my guess is that within 12 hours, Gilad will be home. That was the desperate hope of some soldiers who gave their vote not to this party or that, not that woman or this man, but to Gilad. The time has come; the time has already passed: bring Gilad home.

When, and only when, we learn to answer in strength will Gilad come home. It's very simple. Let Hamas realize that this time, in their attempt to harm and torture Israel, they have merely damaged themselves. Shut down all talks. We have nothing to say. You, Hamas, say Gilad is dead. Until we hear otherwise, there is nothing to talk about. Let 1,000 rot in Israeli prisons, as you let Gilad rot underground for the last three years. Let the crossings stay closed to all produce. We have nothing to say.

Do this, Israel - and we will see Gilad, alive and well and home.