(Updated; originally posted July 21 2007)
Shitstinkers will probably round them back up again in two weeks:
"In Gesture to Abbas, Israel Releases 255 Palestinian Prisoners" by STEVEN ERLANGER
JERUSALEM, July 20 — Israel released 255 Palestinian prisoners on Friday in a gesture meant to support the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, who said that more prisoners would soon be released.
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel promised the releases.... Both moves are supposed to help Mr. Abbas and his Fatah faction.
Together they are trying to create, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, a better life for Palestinians with the help of Western aid, in contrast to the situation in Gaza. There, Hamas is isolated and the main crossings for goods and people both to Israel and Egypt have been shut for more than a month.
[Shut BY WHO?]
And it has been one long hell of a year, hasn't it?
Israel holds about 10,000 Palestinians. Those released Friday had at least a year left to their terms. None had been convicted of wounding or killing Israelis.
[Then WHY WERE THEY in your stink jails, Israel?]
The release began at dawn, when prisoners in shackles were taken from the Ketziot prison camp in the Negev and put on buses to the West Bank. At the Betuniya checkpoint, they got off, some of them kissing the ground, and boarded Palestinian buses to Ramallah."
"Israel releases 255 imprisoned Palestinians; Hamas dismisses move as a ploy" by Louise Roug/Los Angeles Times July 21, 2007
RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Yesterday, Israel released their son and 254 other prisoners in an effort to prop up beleaguered Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and his emergency government in Ramallah.
None of the released Palestinians, which included 11 minors and six women, had been convicted of directly attacking Israelis, and most were at the end of their prison terms, according to Israeli officials. The fate of about 10,000 Palestinians still held in Israeli prisons is one of the key areas of contention between Israel and the Palestinians, and this pardon has been hotly debated in recent days.
Nothing has changed in a whole year, readers.
If anything, Israel has MORE Palestinians in prisons.
Many Palestinians remain leery of Israel's motives or argue that the measures are not wide-reaching enough.
Yeah, I'm always amazed at how perceptive they truly are (in contrast to the image given to us relentlessly by the Zio-press).
Khalida Jarrar, a Palestinian lawmaker from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine: "Israel tries to use the release for more division between the Palestinians."
Yesterday, outside the gates of an Israeli checkpoint in Ramallah, hundreds of relatives and friends had gathered to welcome back their loved ones. Like fans at a baseball game whose home team just won an upset victory, they waved flags and sang songs. As the gates swung open, the crowd erupted in cheers and whistles.
The older couple found a place among the crowd and peered through the fence at an Israeli checkpoint. They had been waiting for four years. The older couple's son, Imad Jamhour, 31, was arrested in September 2003, a week before his wedding. Although they were happy Imad was among those released, the family said the prisoner release was a political stunt.
Mohammed Rabei, the father of Imad's fiancée, Wafa: "They're trying to use it to get better propaganda for themselves. They should release them all -- then we'll sit and talk with them."
[At least the story ended on a HAPPY note!!! And if you noticed, reader, the Palestinians are NOT STOO-PID! They SEE THINGS as they TRULY ARE!!!]
