Memorial Services for Goldwasser and Regev

It has been a few weeks and this last Friday memorial services were held for both Goldwasser and Regev who were killed in 2006 by Hizbollah. Their bodies were returned earlier this month in an exchange that has angered many in Israel.

Hundreds of people gathered at the Nahariya cemetery on Friday for the unveiling of the gravestone of fallen IDF soldier

Ehud Goldwasser, whose body was returned to Israel by Hizbullah in July.

"Udi was kidnapped from the land of his birth by a terror organization," an inscription on the gravestone read. The date of the return of Goldwasser's body was also inscribed.

The ceremony was attended by Ehud's widow, Karnit, his mother, Mickey, his brothers, Gadi and Yair, and his father, Shlomo, who read the Kaddish (mourner's prayer).

"What else is there to say? Everything has already been said," he said. "You were a hero and you will remain that way," he added. "You are with us all of the time, listening... Illuminate our eyes down the path. We need that."

In a show of solidarity, family members of Eldad Regev, who was kidnapped along with Goldwasser, and the parents of Gilad Schalit, kidnapped one month earlier in June 2006, attended the ceremony.

Members of Regev's reserve unit also attended. They stood by the graveside for a long period after the completion of the ceremony.

Earlier on Friday, a memorial for Regev took place at a Haifa ceremony. "We so hoped you would come back safe, and that you see, feel, and hear what was done on your behalf," Regev's uncle, Michael Helfmend, said. Helfmend noted that Regev was kidnapped just two days after attending a memorial for his mother in 2006.

In Israel they will not be forgotten, and they will be revenged. That I'm sure of.

Regev and Goldwasser have returned to Israel

Unfortunately it is not a day of rejoicing for their families or for the nation. For they have been returned in coffins.

After two years of holding out hope the worst had happened: Cries of horror sounded at the Regev and Goldwasser homes Wednesday, as family members witnessed the TV broadcast of the prisoners exchange, in which the coffins of Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser were shown being turned over to the Red Cross.

The government-approved exchange of Hizbullah terrorists for two abducted soldiers, who have been presumed dead, is underway. Arch-murderer Samir Kuntar of Lebanon and four Hizbullah terrorists are on their way to becoming free men as they await transfer to Lebanon at Israel's northern border at Rosh HaNikra. The families of abducted soldiers Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser prepare to mourn as they await for the final identification of the remains of their sons.

The nation of Israel mourns the deaths of these men. Nasrallah is planning a huge celebration to welcome the murderer Samir Kuntar. This creature smashed the head of a 4-year old girl with a rock. Such a big man. Such courage. And he has vowed to resume his terrorist activities upon his return to Lebanon.

Good! The next time the Israelis capture him (and they will) they can shoot the Sweet Old Boy in the head.

This is what happens when you have a weak, ineffective government in place, such as the one lead by Ehud Olmert.

Let us hope that the next time Israel is attacked by Hizbollah that they bomb the whole place back to the Stone Age and be damned about the "civilians" or what the world thinksI For no matter what Israel does, the world will condemn them anyway!