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| Israel frees over 250 Palestinian prisoners |
| 2007-07-21 |
| Israel released more than 250 Palestinian prisoners on Friday as part of a US-backed deal to bolster Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas after Hamas Islamists took over the Gaza Strip last month. The prisoners, who were mostly members of Abbas’s secular Fatah faction, arrived in the West Bank city of Ramallah where they were greeted by Abbas and reunited with family members. “You cannot imagine how happy we are that you came back to us,” Abbas told a crowd of about 3,000 at the presidential compound. “But our happiness is missing something because we want all 11,000 prisoners to return to their families.” |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #9 Waah! The nice thing about personal responsibility, is that once you discover it, you stop the knee-jerk Bush blaming. Gone are the days of reflexivly blaming Bush like a heart broken donk in a drunken stooper. Bush isn't the boss in Israel, he's not even a citizen. The simple fact of the matter is this, so read closely, if Israel was willing to take on Hamas directly, they wouldn't need to help Fatah do it. All they have to do is grow some sack and all the Fatah gunnies can stay in the klink. Waah! |
| Posted by: Mike N. 2007-07-21 22:27 |
| #8 But it's sure gonna get peaceful one of these days. And I hope Israel gets the pleasure of making it so. After so much Palestinian crapulence that they've been through with the UN and Arab nations pissing in their ear and telling them it's raining the whole time, they most certainly deserve the gratification. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-07-21 20:11 |
| #7 There will be no peaceful resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian crisis. But it's sure gonna get peaceful one of these days. |
| Posted by: gromgoru 2007-07-21 17:30 |
| #6 There will be no peaceful resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian crisis. This is true Z. The muslims believe infidels (Jews) are occupying their sacred land (Israel). Thier mantra is to destroy Israel and drive all the Jews into the sea. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2007-07-21 16:20 |
| #5 The address for you complains, Zenster, is closer to home. The unwillingness of Oslo Accord participants to divest the substantial political capital that they have riding on a futile Two State solution has begun to approach the moral crimes of the terrorists themselves. Continued pursuit of reconciliation with those who abjectly refuse to honestly negotiate is costing human lives and doing so needlessly. There will be no peaceful resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian crisis. The Muslims seek no such thing and never have. Continued genocide is their only goal and that invalidates every single other aspect of any attempts at settlement with them. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-07-21 13:41 |
| #4 if they kill each other it is the only way they will get the justice they deserve... Israel needs the deth penalty for terrorists. Hammass will have a hard time wringing this kind of weak release if the shahids are dead. |
| Posted by: Abu do you love 2007-07-21 13:28 |
| #3 We can hope they will go home and destroy each other. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2007-07-21 12:18 |
| #2 The address for you complains, Zenster, is closer to home. |
| Posted by: gromgoru 2007-07-21 09:17 |
| #1 Six million died horrible deaths so that Israel could do this? |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-07-21 02:05 |