Dr. Hagai ben-Artzi, the brother-in-law of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, told Noam Shalit, the father of abducted Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit Monday evening, "We support you but we'll [only] free Gilad in the next war." The two met near the Prime Minister's Office, where dozens of youth were demonstrating on behalf of the demand that the prime minister give in to the demand to release hundreds of security prisoners for Shalit's release.
A month ago, ben-Artzi - the brother of Sara Netanyahu - sent the prime minister a sharply-worded letter in which he said not to give in to the Hamas demands. He added that if the prime minister could not stand the pressure, "he should quit with clean hands and not disgrace himself, his family or the people of Israel."