"In that lies his strenght and his weakness. Eli once said he would love for Ziva's childeren to grow up as doctors, lawyers and more but what has he got so show for himself now....absolutly nothing. He has always put his country first but has lost what means the most his family....by his own actions and that includes the loss of Ziva. He has got nothing else left but his country and wasn't his family the first and foremost reason for him to act the way that he does, fight for the safty of your family by keeping your country safe. I think Eli has lost sight of what is really important...family.

But I agree with you he is definiatly not one dimensional....he has many layers the more you see the more you don't understand about him, and if we don't understand him how can he (or we) expect Ziva to understand his actions. But I love a good multi layered villian."

"Or, did he want her back because she is 'the best', and an asset to Mossad, and nothing more? I don't believe this is the case. In the episode 'Aliyah', he seemed genuinely happy to see her; the comment about the makeup, I think, was borne out of the shock of her looking so unexpectedly different. And, then again, in 'Good Cop, Bad Cop', he's heard ranting over the phone about how Gibbs 'stole' his daughter from him - ....."

"Personally I think that although jenny and eli share some characterists (whole hearted commintment to the job) they are very different individuals, and alot of it comes from there upbringing and situation, which would have re-inforced the idea that there is evil out there, which motavates his actions, but this also colours his actions in a negitive light, that he will extract his revenge on anyone who has harmed him or iseral, and he will not let anyone get in the way of this, and he applies this to every person he deals with, and he commits himself to his mission with no reserve, "

"I don't think he even attempted a rescue mission unless I missed something, If it was my daughter missing I would do everything in my power to get confirmation that she was dead ,and if she were alive do anything to get her back. Unless I am mistaken I thought she was held captive for like 2-3 months by that terrorist, I would assume that would be enough time to find out if Ziva was alive or dead. I understand we all have differing views about Eli, but in my eyes there is no justification for many of his actions and the way he conducts business. Just my 2 cents."

"He did not attempt a rescue mission. Unless exlurker considers sending Malachi Ben-Gidon to Washington a rescue attempt. That was an attempt to burn Ziva and force her back to Mossad."

"I don't think he even attempted a rescue mission unless I missed something, If it was my daughter missing I would do everything in my power to get confirmation that she was dead ,and if she were alive do anything to get her back. Unless I am mistaken I thought she was held captive for like 2-3 months by that terrorist, I would assume that would be enough time to find out if Ziva was alive or dead..."

"I could be wrong but didn't Abby figure out where the camp was by following the Caf-Pow trail? I thought that them getting captured was a pretext for the rescue mission. Someone please clarify as I dont have Season 7 stored on my comp? I think that special agent from Texas was referring to Ziva and Ben-Gidons team right before Ziva's one woman assault on that terrorist camp, I could be wrong on this as well as my memory is a little hinky on TnC."

"I think she got a more spefic region, like more speficic than somalia, because mossad were only able to track the supplies to that port in somalia, but abby was able to trace it further, and they got far enough, that the terrorist thought they were inflitrated and captured them, and I thought that the increased pressense that chad was refrering to, and they were there to like clean up, make up the story of the boat going down in the strom, extracting malchi, and there other team mate, and like kinda wiping away there trace, so the camp wouldn't know they traced them there, so they wouldn't move on, but I got the impression that chad thought that mossad was there to clean up, not to search, just my intepritation though"

"Isn't the best way to find answers about a mistake to clean up the mess it creates to search for answers on how it got that way? By cleaning up the mess involving the Damacles, perhaps they were looking for a clue as to where Ziva went after she and Ben-Gidon went their separate ways. Just because it was not outright stated, does not mean that it didn't happen.

Besides, Eli plays things close to the vest, and I'm sure that there is a LOT of things that he may (or may not) have done that hasn't been shared with the viewers (whether via Vance or otherwise). It wouldn't be interesting if we were just given everything upfront, would it?"