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2023-01-06 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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Terror convict who murdered IDF soldier released after 40 years, says he’s ‘proud’
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[IsraelTimes] Karim Younis, an Arab Israeli, receives hero’s welcome by hundreds in hometown of ’Ara; minister Ben Gvir reportedly ordered predawn release to prevent celebrations outside prison
Karim Younis,
...somewhat more formally Karim Youssef Fadl Younis. Wikipedia, which is not a disinterested source, refers to him as one of the 1948 Arabs, by which they mean a native Arab-Israeli from a family that remained within the Green Line, not a Palestinian.... the longest-serving prisoner incarcerated
Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages!
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for security-related offenses, was released from prison Thursday after serving 40 years behind bars.
Younis, an Arab Israeli, was convicted of terrorism offenses for the murder of an Israeli soldier in 1980.
...also of smuggling weapons to his fellow terrorists... He was freed from Hadarim Prison, north of Tel Aviv, at 4 a.m.
With a black and white keffiyeh wrapped around his shoulders, the now 64-year-old Younis was met by hundreds of supporters singing the Paleostinian national anthem in his home village of ’Ara in northern Israel.
"Every prisoner’s story is the story of an entire people and I am proud to be one of those who sacrificed for Paleostine," Younis said.
"Forty years have passed as if they were nothing, because we consider this to be one of the main pillars of the struggle," said Younis, who was carried through the village while holding a Paleostinian flag.
Cousins Maher and Karim Younis, from the Arab town of ’Ara in northern Israel, murdered Cpl. Avraham Bromberg in 1980. The assailants offered the soldier a ride as he was heading home from his army base in the Golan Heights, then overpowered him, shot him in the head, and stole his weapon. They left him on the side of a road where he was found and brought to a hospital, but he died days later. The killers were arrested two years later and sentenced in 1983.
Maher is due to be released in two weeks. Both were given life sentences but theses were commuted in 2012 by then-president Shimon Peres to 40 years.
Channel 13 reported that National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir ordered Younis be released before dawn in an effort to thwart festivities outside the facility. Though his family came to the prison to pick him up, Younis was taken away in an Israel Prison Service van and handed over to police, who dropped him off at Ra’anana’s Central Bus Station. His family eventually picked him up at 6 a.m.
"The method of release shows how afraid the authorities are that we will celebrate," an unnamed family member told the network.
Kan news reported that Ben Gvir has also instructed police to prevent public celebrations in ’Ara. Ben Gvir, who leads the far-right Otzma Yehudit party, justified the order with a legal opinion that such celebrations offer support for terrorism.
Videos posted on social media showed Younis being warmly greeted by friends and family in ’Ara and apparently giving interviews to Arabic-language media.
’Ara is a few kilometers from Zichron Ya’akov where Bromberg’s home was. His family reportedly still lives in the area.
Younis’s decades in prison made him the longest-serving Paleostinian detainee, either from Israel or the Paleostinian territories, according to the Paleostinian Prisoners’ Club advocacy group.
The organization said Younis was among a group of prisoners up for release a decade ago as part of a deal mediated by the then-US secretary of state John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry
Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, unsuccessful presidential candidate, and utterly failed Secretary of State...
, but the negotiations ultimately collapsed.
Younis’s brother said his joy was "unlimited" but "incomplete," as their parents had died during his sibling’s detention.
His mother died all of three months ago, after having visited him in prison over 700 times. Lawmakers from the Religious Zionism and Likud parties are working on a bill to annul the citizenship of convicted terrorists. It is set to be reviewed by the Ministerial Committee for Legislation.
Earlier this week, Younis, a member of Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
 ...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....
’s Fatah movement, said in a statement that his "soul remains with those who hold the embers of the Paleostinian struggle."
No doubt. 
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