Nobel Prize winner in economics Prof. Robert J. Aumann led a march to Homesh and told the crowd, "Jews - not Arabs - are our problem."

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The Hamas terrorist organization has refused a request by the International Red Cross to visit kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit, as required by international law. Israel is allowing Red Cross visits to three Hizbullah terrorists who were captured during last summer's war, even though Hizbullah has not let the Red Cross make contact with kidnapped IDF soldiers Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev.

-- Major General Gadi Eisenkott, head of the Northern Command, said that the IDF knew in the first two hours of the retaliation against Hizbullah that military action would not rescue kidnapped IDF soldiers Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev. He said it was clear that only diplomatic measures would lead to the release of the soldiers, whose fate still is not known. Major Gen. Eisenkott. He added that the IDF estimated its retaliation would last less than one week and that the primary objective was to devastate the Hizbullah terrorist infrastructure.