“I think it is a 10 year endeavor, minimum.”
IMHO, you can at least double that estimate for every political/media group in this country or any of our “allies” that calculates that their opposition will further their own agenda.
(Much as I admire Eisenhower, his oft-quoted remarks about the Military-Industrial Complex being a threat to this country was a pretty badly shanked shot when considering the stuff the DBM and libs have “accomplished”.)
Cabinet okays repatriation of 4 Jordanian killers
By Barak Ravid
The cabinet yesterday approved a deal to allow four Jordanians imprisoned in Israel for killing an Israeli officer and a soldier in the Jordan Valley in 1990 to serve out their sentences in Jordan.
The cabinet, however, did not discuss the release of 250 Palestinian prisoners affiliated with Fatah, announced by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert at the summit meeting in Sharm el-Sheikh last week. A source in the Prime Minister’s Bureau said that “the process of formulating the lists has not ended and the matter is still being worked on.”
The deal to transfer the four prisoners followed a Jordanian request and lengthy negotiations between the two countries.
While the inmates were given life sentences in Israel, under the agreement between Israel and Jordan, King Abdullah will be able to pardon the prisoners at the end of 2008 if he chooses.
Ministers from Kadima, Labor and the Pensioners voted in favor of the deal, while ministers from Yisrael Beiteinu and Shas voted against it.
At the meeting, Olmert described the decision as a gesture of good will toward Jordan. Noting that Israel and Jordan have a strategic relationship, he said this matter was discussed for several years by the two sides and that now is an appropriate time to grant the Jordanian request.
Salameh Abu Jelloun, Hamed Abdel Razek Abu Jelloun, and Amin al-Sane infiltrated Israel on November 7, 1990, encountered Israeli troops in the Jordan Valley, and killed Captain Yehuda Lifshitz.
A fourth Jordanian, Sultan Taha Mohammed Ajlouni, infiltrated Israel on November 13, 1990, and killed Staff Sergeant Pinhas Levy.
Link: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages//877065.html
Note that Israel is not getting their kidnapped soldiers returned. I could weep.