My Cousin's Kidnappers Are Not 'Militants' ...They're Terrorists, Just Like the 7/7 Bombers

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A withering attack on the West's double standards in the Middle East IT IS now a fortnight since Palestinian terrorists tunnelled under the Gaza border and crossed into sovereign Israeli territory, bringing fear and bloodshed to an ordinary Sunday tea time. They killed two soldiers who were guarding an army post and, infamously, kidnapped a 19-yearold boy, Corporal Gilad Shalit.

He has not been seen since. The only news of him for his grieving parents and an anxious Israeli nation comes in the form of repeated ransom demands from the Hamas terrorists believed to be holding him hostage on the direct orders of their Syrianbased leader, Khaled Meshaal.

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My Cousin's Kidnappers Are Not 'Militants' ...They're Terrorists, Just Like the 7/7 Bombers

I have a personal connection to these terrible events: Cpl Shalit is a relative of mine.

I do not want to claim that Gilad is more than a distant cousin. He is not.

He is less than half my age and, although I am told we have met, I cannot recall it. But he represents the sort of direct...

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