Posted on 01/01/2007 7:11:16 AM PST by Valin
Palestinian media reported Sunday that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak are set to announce an agreement on the release of Gilad Shalit, during their meeting this coming Thursday. Palestinian sources said earlier Sunday that Israel and Hamas have agreed on the details of a deal that will see the release of the kidnapped Israel Defense Forces soldier, who was snatched from his base near the Gaza Strip on June 25.
Meanwhile, Olmert called Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday in order to wish him a happy new year and Eid Al-Adha. According to the Prime Minister's Office, the two agreed to advance in the coming days the implementation of steps they agreed on in their meeting nine days ago. During their meeting the two discussed the removal of West Bank roadblocks, as well as Abbas' request that Israel release Palestinian prisoners prior to an agreement involving Shalit. Under the terms of the reported prisoner exchange deal, Hamas will hand over to Israel a videotape showing Shalit alive, and in return Israel will release a small number of prisoners in its jails.
According to a Palestinian source, in the second stage of the deal Shalit will be handed over to the Egyptians, and then will be transferred to Israel. At the same time, 450 Palestinian prisoners will be released by Israel. Hamas will present Egypt with a list of all the prisoners whose release it will seek and ask for Israel's authorization. Two months later, Israel will free another group of prisoners, the size of which and those included will be decided in Jerusalem. Israel has promised to be "generous" on this issue, the source said.
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I guess this is gonna work out pretty well for them. Kidap a soldier get a thousand killers back.
On one hand, 450 maggots for a few Israelis sounds reasonable. On the other hand, of course, this simply encourages maggots to kidnap Israelis.
Why is Olmert still PM?
He should have been replaced at the conclusion of the Israeli-Hizbulla conflict.
On the other hand if I were the Israelis, I would avoid this in the future by not taking any terrorist prisoners. Amen.
believe it when you see it -- we've had scores of supposed deals since last summer, none of which panned out.
A good definition of insanity is doing the samething over and over and over, and expecting a different result.
Well I hope you're right. That's not to say I don't want to see Shalit returned, but this is a bad...no make that a VERY bad deal.
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