Pardon For Barghouti?

Nascant Presidential Campaign Issue:

By Ezra HaLevi, INN

Candidates vying for the still-occupied position of president are being asked whether the will approve a request to pardon terror chief Marwan Barghouti, serving life-sentences for murder.

MK Reuven Rivlin (Likud), considered a likely winner over Shimon Peres, has already been approached by several foreign diplomats on the matter. “A number of ambassadors from European countries – separately, and not in coordination with one another – asked to meet Likud MK Reuven Rivlin,” reported analyst Yossi Verter in Haaretz. “All addressed an identical question to Rivlin:

‘If you are chosen president, how will you act if you are asked to pardon the prisoner Marwan Barghouti, the leader of the Tanzim?’”

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