The father of one of the Israeli soldiers kidnapped by Hezbollah said he believes Tony Blair’s vow to do “everything he could” to get his son back. Shlomo Goldwasser, Ehud Goldwasser’s father, and members of the other kidnapped soldiers’ families met with Blair on Sunday in Jerusalem, Goldwasser said Tuesday.
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