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2003-08-07 | ||||||
Israel freed 334 Palestinian prisoners in a bid to jump-start halting peace efforts but the gesture fell flat among Palestinians, who had hoped for a mass release and said authorities chose mostly prisoners whose terms were about to expire anyway. 334 isn’t a mass release? Still, emotional scenes were played out at the five handover points throughout the West Bank and Gaza, as freed men kissed the ground and waiting relatives chanted ``God is Great’’ and pounded on Betcha he’s jugged again before his daughter’s next birhday. Any takers? But many Palestinians expressed strong dissatisfaction with Israel’s perceived failure to send an unequivocal message that a new page has been turned after almost three years of deadly violence. You guys prolly wouldn’t like the unequivocal message that the Israelis would really like to send. ``Despite the joy that every Palestinian feels over freedom for some of the Palestinians in Israeli prisons, the Palestinian Authority ... insists on the release of all Palestinian prisoners’’ along a fixed timetable, Palestinian Information Minister Nabil Amr said.
Ariel: "Well Moshe, that didn’t seem to work." "I know boss. What should we do?" "Re-arrest all of them!" Israel still holds more than 7,000 Palestinians, primarily on suspicion of involvement in terrorism. It says that despite a one-month lull in violence since militant groups declared a temporary cease-fire, it would be dangerous to release many more prisoners as long as militant groups remain armed and able to resume attacks. ``It is
Wow! An even-handed paragraph! The Palestinians have also been angrily protesting the massive security fence Israel is building between its territory and the West Bank. Israel says it is a security measure to keep out suicide bombers; the Palestinians say the barrier encroaches unacceptably on West Bank land. But the issue of prisoners has proven particularly corrosive and Israel had hoped a limited release would ease the pressure.
Ingrates.
Funny how no one cares about them. | ||||||
Posted by:Steve White |
#10 If they could have a JDAM-equipped bomber circling high enough out of site, they could probably turn any parolee convention into a smoking crater And then you could pass it off as just another Paleo "work accident." "Geez, there's been a lot of those lately!" |
Posted by: Steve White 2003-8-7 2:22:20 PM |
#9 Anon1--I've probably watched too many movies, but it'd be neat if they could. I know the Mossad doesn't have too many compulsions about bending the rules when the security of their homeland is in question. If they could have a JDAM-equipped bomber circling high enough out of site, they could probably turn any parolee convention into a smoking crater (like the "Clear and Present Danger" drug cartel hootnanny). Ah, well, I can dream, can't I? |
Posted by: Dar 2003-8-7 2:20:55 PM |
#8 Ben - No one but the JPost or Ha'aretz (sp?) would cover such a story - not in their editorial agenda to tell the whole truth, just their preselected bits - with large doses of speculative spin. |
Posted by: ·com 2003-8-7 2:09:43 PM |
#7 Betcha he’s jugged again before his daughter’s next birhday. Any takers? Even money? Riiiight. 5-1? I'd take that... |
Posted by: Raj 2003-8-7 11:28:41 AM |
#6 Oh DAR that is BRILLIANT please tell me that the IDF and the US intelligence are making use of this technology. Oh please, this is just too good to pass up. bloody fantastic. We never hear about it, maybe there are proceedural rules against it or something, but maybe they just do it and don't tell anybody. Good. I don't want to know if that protects us all from squealing lefties complaining about 1984 and invasion of terrorist's privacy and all. |
Posted by: Anon1 2003-8-7 11:18:40 AM |
#5 If ever there was an appropriate sci-fi scenario for implanting under-the-skin transmitter/locaters, this would be it. Then wait for a cluster of them to get together and stage a little "work" accident. "Oops--looks like they were taking a refresher course in Bomb Making 101 and closed the loop!" |
Posted by: Dar 2003-8-7 9:37:59 AM |
#4 And some of the releasees will, in effect, be spies for Israel. Btw, how many countries have a Prisoner's Club? |
Posted by: mhw 2003-8-7 8:10:52 AM |
#3 And some of the releasees will, in effect, be spies for Israel. |
Posted by: Anonymous 2003-8-7 8:09:23 AM |
#2 And, if any of the freed prisoners commit a terrorist attack, Sharon wins, can tell the world "See? we tried to play nice and they turned around and did this." Then the world, (or at least the US) will turn around while he cleans out the occupied territories. |
Posted by: Ben 2003-8-7 6:03:11 AM |
#1 It's all a game. If Sharon frees the prisoners, he can perhaps score some Kudos and still let the settlements go ahead and build his wall. He'd rather free the Paleos and have settlements and a wall than lose settlements and war and keep the Paleos. You cannot kill them when they are in Jail, after all. And we all know the first thing they will do is organise to kill more jews and break the roadmap to pieces. When that is done, Israel will have a pretext to obliterate them (hopefully though it always seems to end up some pissant little scheme to assasinate a few here a few there but not to comprehensively defeat and kick them out). Kick them back to Jordan. Just take the rest of the land, fight the war, kick the Paleos to Syria and Jordan, bring on the Big Wall and be done with it! Sure the lefties will scream for a bit but this running pustulous bubo needs to be popped, razed and quaterised! |
Posted by: Anon1 2003-8-7 2:02:01 AM |