I received the following email today, and wish to share it with you all.

Dear Friends,

This Friday marks the 4th year anniversary of Gilad Shalit's captivity and I just participated in an effort to join thousands in sending him a message. These messages will be delivered to the International Red Cross and the JCRC-NY will demand that Hamas allow the IRC to visit and deliver the notes to Gilad in accordance with international humanitarian law. Copies of our messages will also be sent to Noam and Aviva Shalit.

Please take just a few moments to fill out the form at http://jcrcny.org/gilad/messagetogilad.html and forward this message to your friends!

For those of you unfamiliar with the story of Gilad Shalit, I urge you to click this link for more information. It is interesting to note that Hamas will not allow the Red Cross to visit their prisoner, while convicted terrorists receive such visits in Israeli jails, along with visits from families and others -- something Shalit has been denied for four years. And international law requires that these messages be delivered -- again, something which Hamas has refused to do in the past. But it remains important for the decent people of the world to stand up to the forces of terror by attempting to get these messages through to Staff Sergeant Shalit, if only to show which side in the conflict between Israel and the forces of Islamist terror is truly acting in accord with the precepts of international law and which side continually flouts them.