SHALIT DEAL

     When Gilad Shalit was abducted from Israel into Gaza in 2006, and two more Israeli soldiers were abducted into Lebanon (and later murdered), it set off a war with Lebanon.  After that war, rockets continued to pour into Israel from Gaza, and Israel again invaded Gaza in 2009.  But, despite killing over 1,000 Gazans in that invasion, and despite slowing the rate of rocket fire into Israel, Gilad Shalit remains a prisoner in Gaza.  As I write this commentary, as is copied from HaAretz onto the matrix above, he has been held captive for 1,247 days as of November 23, 2009.

     Not every name appears in the Torah Code.  This is discussed at Talmud and Names.  There is no full ELS for Gilad Shalit as spelled in the Israeli press, even if we used wrapped Torah where the computer makes more than one pass through the 304,805 letters of Torah in search of his name.   But Israeli and other names can often be spelled more than one way.  This is a criticism of the code emphasized by Brendan McKay, who points out that there are four spellings for Abulafia on the signs attached to the Abulafia synagogue in Tiberias, Israel.  In looking at the name SHALIT, there are two letters that can be used for the T at the end.  The Israeli press uses tet, but tav has the same sound.  On the matrix above (a wrapped matrix), two words form the vertical axis term.  They are DEAL and SHALIT.  SHALIT here has the tav. 

    Although the Torah refers to Israel as a stiff-necked people, here STIFF-NECKED directly crosses and shares a letter shin with SHALIT.  So who is STIFF-NECKED – SHALIT or the Palestinians?   The answer here seems quite clear. STIFF-NECKED is overlapped by ARAFAT at skip +1.  ARAFAT only occurs at skip +1 twice in Torah. Also on the matrix at skip -2 is GAZA.

   Yasir ARAFAT is dead.  But his terrorism lives on.  Israel will not get SHALIT back without using more force.  I would recommend a 100% blockade on all goods and power until SHALIT is returned.  But to help the deal go through, Israel probably needs to return all Palestinian prisoners who have no blood on their hands.