'Palestinians' want 1,400 killers for abducted soldier
Source: The Jerusalem Post
April 08, 2007
Due to what PLO chief Mahmoud Abbas described as herculean efforts on his part, the "Palestinians" have finally transfered to Israel a list of security prisoners they want released in exchange for an abducted IDF soldier.
However, that list reportedly contains more than 1,400 names, including many jailed terrorists who have directly participated in or oversaw the slaughter of Israelis.
The "Palestinians" say the ball is now in Israel's court, though what they have really passed is a hot potato.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is under increasing pressure to somehow secure the release of Corporal Gilad Shalit, but has previously committed himself to not freeing so many terrorists for a single soldier, and certainly not any with "blood on their hands."
Ignored in the whole affair is the fact that Abbas and the Palestinian Authority are in effect negotiating on behalf of the terrorists who nabbed Shalit, rather than working to unconditionally reverse that crime and violation of signed peace agreements.
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