Voice of the People

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On Thursday,
the father of a captured Israeli soldier visited Palestinians injured in the Israeli artillery barrage on Gaza and receiving treatment in Israel. He called both peoples "victims of the same madness" and urging an end to the bloodshed.

"I call on the government of Israel and the Palestinian leadership to stop this unending violence," said Noam Shalit, whose son, Gilad, was captured by Hamas-linked militants in late June.
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Those calling for a broad, crushing offensive "need to remember that the terrorism will never end altogether," the Haaretz newspaper Web site quoted Prime Minister Ehud Olmert as telling reporters on his return flight from a five-day trip to the United States.
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