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TweetGreat! Israel has detained hundreds of terrorists, and SURPRISE, SURPRISE, terrorist turned politician Mahmoud Abbas wants them released. I guess he missed the vow Sami Kuntar made to keep killing Jews, after Israel released him back into Lebanon.
Abbas: No peace till all prisoners free
Israel freed nearly 200 jailed Palestinians on Monday – including a terrorist mastermind from the 1970s who became the Jewish state’s longest serving Palestinian prisoner – in a goodwill gesture made hours before US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s latest peace mission to the region.
At the start of her visit, Rice praised the Israeli gesture: “This is something that matters a lot to the Palestinians, it matters a lot to the Palestinian people and it is obviously a sign of goodwill.”
The prisoners received a hero’s welcome upon their return to the West Bank, where thousands of people joined celebrations at the Ramallah headquarters of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and elsewhere throughout the West Bank.
“We will not rest until the prisoners are
freed and the jails are empty,” Abbas told the cheering crowd.However, a moment of tragedy marred the joyous occasion when, according to the mayor of Yamoun, a crowded balcony gave way in the village, killing a nine-year-old girl and injuring 16 others. Relatives had crowded onto the rickety balcony to await the arrival of Muhammad Abahra,
freed after eight years in prison.In Israel, the government came under fire for freeing Palestinian prisoners without receiving anything in return.
Opposition leader Binyamin Netanyahu said that releasing the prisoners would weaken Israel and would not strengthen moderate Palestinians.
“The crumbling Kadima government continues to demonstrate weakness that causes national humiliation,” Netanyahu said.
Transportation Minister Shaul Mofaz, who is running for leadership of the Kadima Party and who voted against the prisoner release in the cabinet last week, again voiced his opposition on Monday, saying Israel should only be freeing prisoners for captured soldier Gilad Schalit.
“I ask: Why are we releasing prisoners with blood on their hands?” Mofaz said. “We will have to release prisoners for Gilad Schalit. We need more determined leadership that will know how to maintain the interests of Israel – and the interest of Israel is to release Gilad Schalit. For that we need to keep prisoners to use in exchange for him. Releasing prisoners now is a very big mistake.”
Thank you Condi Rice for strong-arming Israel into releasing more terrorists. Each act of capitulation only encourages muslim jihadists to continue to attack. Look at Europe and the jihad underway there.
Read the rest of this latest travesty in the Jerusalem Post.
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