Israeli Prisoner Release--New Victims Pay the Price

Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs ^ | August 25, 2008 | Nadav Shragai

[jerusalemjudy]

* The Israeli Cabinet approved on August 17 the release of almost 200 Palestinian security prisoners as a "goodwill gesture" to Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas. The list includes several prisoners "with blood on their hands," who, by definition, were involved in the murder of Israelis.

* According to an informal estimate by Israeli security bodies, about 50 percent of the terrorists freed for any reason whatsoever returned to the path of terror, either as a perpetrator, a planner, or as an accomplice. In the terror acts committed by these freed terrorists, hundreds of Israelis were murdered, and thousands were wounded.

* Israel freed 400 Palestinian prisoners and five other prisoners in return for Elhanan Tannenbaum, who was held captive by Hizbullah, and for the bodies of three soldiers kidnapped on Mount Dov. According to Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Chairman Tzahi Hanegbi, from the date of the deal on January 29, 2004, until April 17, 2007, those freed in the deal had murdered 35 Israelis.

* An investigation by the Almagor Terror Victims Association in Israel revealed that at least 30 of the terrorist attacks perpetrated since 2000 were committed by terrorists freed in deals with terror organizations. Many were freed in the framework of goodwill gestures because they were defined by Israel as "without blood on their hands." The bloody swath cut by these terrorists claimed the life of 177 persons, with many others wounded and made invalids.

[jerusalemjudy]

A lame duck Israeli prime minister hands over a couple of hundred Arab terrorists in a vain attempt to shore up a weak Palestinian leader...

[pnh102]

My only objection to these prisoner swaps are that the Arab terrorists are still alive when they are released.

You would think an old fool like Olmert would remember the steep price the Israelis paid for their independence and freedom. The Israel of old knew exactly what kind of barbarians stood at its gates and exactly how to deal with them.

[Joe Boucher]

So these terrorists kill Israelis and then are let go free to placate the terrorists leader?
What I fail to comprehend is why some grieving Israeli whose family member was killed don’t go out and target those who freed their family members murderers?

[Diogenesis]

Israeli Prisoner Release--New Victims Pay the Price
"Israel freed 400 Palestinian prisoners and five other prisoners in return for Elhanan Tannenbaum,
who was held captive by Hizbullah, and for the bodies of three soldiers kidnapped on Mount Dov.
According to Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Chairman Tzahi Hanegbi,
from the date of the deal on January 29, 2004, until April 17, 2007,
those freed in the deal had murdered 35 Israelis."

"An investigation by the Almagor Terror Victims Association in Israel revealed
that at least 30 of the terrorist attacks perpetrated since 2000 were committed
by terrorists freed in deals with terror organizations. Many were freed in the
framework of goodwill gestures because they were defined by Israel as
"without blood on their hands." The bloody swath cut by these terrorists claimed
the life of 177 persons, with many others wounded and made invalids."

[Convert from ECUSA]

Olmerde and his crew never seem to learn - ping!

[forkinsocket]

Here we go again!

[forkinsocket]

One of the released is a Jew killer named Abu ‘Ali Yatta. While he was imprisoned, our good peace partners in Fatah elected him to the Palestinian parliament as a prize.

[Convert from ECUSA]

Isn’t it sickening? When Olmerde and his bunch try to talk tough on Iran, I don’t believe them. Actions like the recent releases of murderers and now this set of releases show that Olmerde and his bunch don’t give a fig about the survival of Israel. I don’t know how Olmerde can sleep at night.

[SJackson]

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[Eleutheria5]

They should try Olmert for collaboration with Nazis, a capital offense in Israel.

[Eleutheria5]

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[Eleutheria5]

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