Haaretz advises Gov’t approves release of 250 Palestinian prisoners
Olmert said.
-
“Without a doubt, this move won’t hurt the chances to bring about the release of Gilad Shalit, Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser, and it might even create conditions that will ease the process,”
“I think that this gesture is a fitting one, and not a product of some illusion,”
“We want to make use of all means to strengthen moderate forces within the Palestinian Authority, and to encourage them to follow the path that we believe can create conditions for real talks.”
DEBKAfile reported Israel’s Security Chiefs See Olmert as Jeopardizing Prisoner Release. This is a real expose. Olmert must go.
I fail to understand how this strengthens anything or anyone other than the “resistance”.
In Feb 2005, 500 prisoners were release to strengthen Abbas. Didn’t work then, won’t work now.
Shas raised an interesting point, “If terrorists are being released, there is no reason not to also free Jews who have killed Arabs.”
