{"id":303,"date":"2009-06-26T12:07:23","date_gmt":"2009-06-26T12:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/windowsanddoors\/2009\/06\/gilad-shalit-coming-home.html"},"modified":"2009-06-26T12:07:23","modified_gmt":"2009-06-26T12:07:23","slug":"gilad-shalit-coming-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/windowsanddoors\/2009\/06\/gilad-shalit-coming-home.html","title":{"rendered":"Gilad Shalit Coming Home?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After three years in captivity, Israeli hostage Gilad Shalit, may soon be transferred to Egypt as part of a prisoner swap, according to European sources.  I pray that it&#8217;s true and I pray that the swap is a one for one deal. it&#8217;s not that I object to offering the hundreds of Hamas fighters that I am sure will be required to gain this one young man&#8217;s release.  It&#8217;s that lasting peace will a lot closer when both sides of the conflict agree about the supreme value of even one of their own.  But either way, it&#8217;s time for this to happen.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Consulate General of Israel in New York released a YouTube video to draw attention to Shalit&#8217;s plight. The project features Shalit&#8217;s own story, &#8220;When the Shark and the Fish First Met,&#8221; about two sea animals that were raised to hate and fear one another but then realized that everyone would be happier by making peace.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2ZvHyZIg5Eo\">video<\/a> shows people from around the world reading Shalit&#8217;s story in their native languages, including Italian, German, French and Spanish, with English subtitles.  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