New Hamas' video must be seen.
The message is clear, the poetic impact is overwhelming and the aesthetic is superb!!!
25/04/2010 The Ezzeddine al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas's military wing, published Sunday a computer animated video entitled "The Sentiment in the Zionist Society regarding Shalit," threatening that captured Israeli occupation soldier Gilad Shalit will share the same fate as Ron Arad should not progress be made in talks. Arad is an Israeli pilot who went missing when he flew a mission over southern Lebanon in 1986.
The three-minute three-dimensional cartoon depicts the father of captured soldier Gilad Shalit visibly aging as he walks through empty city streets in another 20 years past billboards of former and future Israeli leaders vowing to free his son.
In the end the occupation soldier is shown returned in a flag-draped coffin as part of a prisoner exchange, just before his father, Noam Shalit, wakes up from the dream and realizes there is still time to bring his son back alive.
"We are addressing Zionist society and not its leadership and elected officials, who don't see anything outside their personal interests and therefore are holding up the prisoner swap deal. The option still exists that we will reach an agreement in which Shalit will be released in exchange for Palestinian prisoners," explained Hamas officials.
They added a threat to their message: "If the enemy continues its stubbornness, it will be sorry. But the regret will not have any significance. Shalit will not see the light of day until your government pays the price. If it rejects the conditions we have stipulated, you will have to pay a much higher price."
Hamas members clarified towards the end of the video that they intend to invest efforts in capturing additional Israelis, and threatened to do so on a much wider scale than has been seen thus far. "The organization will continue its activities to get its hands on more of Shalit's friends – so many that the Zionist government will be forced to establish a new government ministry for addressing Zionist soldiers and captives," they said in the video.
"If Zionist society wants Shalit to be returned safely, its government must pay the price by releasing Palestinian detainees," they added.
Noam Shalit is seen in the animated clip walking towards this fictitious "prisoner affairs ministry."
Hamas' video message, aired on the Qassam Brigades' official website, comes on the heels of reports that talks mediated by Germany at the beginning of the month in a bid to renew prisoner swap negotiations have failed. Ynet has learned that Israel notified the Germany mediator of its refusal to release the senior officials that Hamas asked be included in a swap deal.
Al-Qassam: Shalit will face Arad’s fate
[ 25/04/2010 - 04:31 PM ]
GAZA, (PIC)-- The Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, on Sunday warned Israel that its soldier Gilad Shalit could face the same fate of pilot Ron Arad if it persisted in its arrogant attitude towards the prisoner swap deal.
In an animated video message, the Qassam Brigades said there is still an opportunity for Israel to swap Palestinian prisoners for its soldier before it regrets.
The message stressed that if Israel wanted to see its soldier intact, it has to pay the price for his release through complying with the demands set by the Palestinian resistance.
The message highlighted that the Brigades will keep working diligently on getting the Palestinian prisoners released from Israeli jails and capturing more Israeli comrades of Shalit to comfort him in his loneliness.
In the same context, Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum stated Sunday that the message of the Qassam Brigades was addressed to the Zionist community and wanted to say that the party which is obstructing the possibility of releasing Shalit is the successive Israeli governments.
Spokesman Barhoum told the Palestinian information center (PIC) that this message confirms that the conditions set by the Palestinian resistance are non-negotiable at all times and thus Israel has to shorten the time if it wants to receive Shalit safe.
The spokesman added that the Zionist community has to understand this message well and pressure the government of Benjamin Netanyahu to respond to the demands of the Palestinian resistance.
For his part, Saleh Al-Na’ami, a specialist in Israeli affairs, said in a statement to the PIC that this video message is a new creative way used by the Qassam Brigades to deliver its messages to the Zionist community.
Na’ami stressed that this message could leave psychological effects on the Zionist community because it is a military society and all its members have sons or daughters serving in the army.
He noted that the Israeli media recently ignored the issue of Shalit except some newspapers which wrote about this matter, which means that the Israeli government deliberately neglected the issue.
The Qassam Brigades had announced that it would broadcast on Sunday a message to the Zionist community.
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