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  • 'Talks hit snag' [How Israel values ONE of its own VS Arabs "value" for 450 of theirs]

    03/17/2009 12:15:11 PM PDT · by Masti · 11 replies · 679+ views
    jpost ^ | March, 16, 2009
    'Talks hit snag because Hamas insisted all 450 prisoners be freed' Jerusalem Post Palestinian sources on Tuesday told the pan-Arab daily Al Hayat that negotiations for the release of kidnapped IDF soldier Gilad Schalit were discontinued due to Hamas's insistence on freeing all 450 prisoners on the list it presented to Israel. According to the sources, which the paper termed "reliable," the figure behind Hamas's hardened position was the organization's military chief, Ahmed Jabri, who had led the Hamas delegation to Egypt. Egyptian sources told the paper that the Israeli envoys to the talks had said that they had given...