He mailed while VIOLATING INTERNATIONAL LAW!
And NO PEEP, huh?
It's ISRAEL, right?
So what else is new?
"Israel gets letter from missing navigator; Jet went down in '86; man's fate unknown" by Matti friedman/Associated Press October 23, 2007
JERUSALEM - Israel obtained a two-decade-old letter written in captivity by its most famous missing soldier as part of a recent exchange with the Hezbollah guerrilla group, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said yesterday.
The letter from Ron Arad, a navigator who abandoned his Phantom jet over Lebanon in 1986 and whose fate is unknown, was turned over last week as part of a deal in which Israel returned a mentally ill Hezbollah man and two fighters' bodies in return for the body of an Israeli who drowned in the Mediterranean and washed up in Lebanon.
Speaking to reporters in France, where he is on a state visit, Olmert called the letter from Arad "moving," but said he hadn't read it because it was personal.
[Sigh! Effin' LIAR!
And he's in France, huh?
Speaking to his asset, no doubt!]
Arad was forced to parachute out of his fighter jet on a mission over Lebanon in October 1986 after one of his aircraft's bombs apparently malfunctioned. The jet's pilot was rescued by Israeli forces, but Arad was captured by guerrillas from the Shiite Amal organization.
[What, it didn't loose?]
Letters and photographs from Arad were initially sent to Israel, but talks for his release failed not long afterward and the navigator was not heard from again.
There have been reports that Arad had been transferred to Hezbollah fighters and then to Iran, but no reliable evidence of his fate has ever surfaced.
[Just Zio-Prop, huh?]
His family has waged a 21-year battle for information, pressuring Israeli leaders not to give up on finding him.
[After 20+ years, I think they gave up -- if they ever cared at all!]
Hezbollah's leader, Hassan Nasrallah, said last year that he believes Arad is dead. But Israel has said it is working under the assumption he is alive and will continue the search until it has proof to the contrary.
[And they are doing what, exactly?
Trying to find this guy is like trying to find Osama, huh, Israel?]
Hezbollah is now holding two Israeli soldiers it captured in July 2006 in an incident that sparked a 34-day war between the militant group and Israel. Hezbollah has not allowed the Red Cross to see the two soldiers, and it is not known whether or not they are alive.
Israel is thought to be holding seven Lebanese prisoners.
[Try more like hundreds, shitters! Do the Zionist lies never end?]
Talks of a new prisoner swap to bring home the two captured soldiers have not yielded any results so far. But after last week's UN-mediated exchange, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said there is "positive progress" in negotiations."
