Palestinska fångar friges

Israel friger 26 palestinska fångar i morgon. Frigivningen är den andra delbetalningen av de "mutor" USA tvingade Israel att betala för att få palestinierna till förhandlingsbordet.
De flesta av fångarna är dömda för mord och har suttit i fängelse över 20 år. Det är möjligt att en benådning är på sin plats efter så lång tid, men fredens sak tjänar frigivningen inte.
Mördarna skall nämligen efter frigivningen föras till presidentpalatset i Ramallah där en officiell välkomstceremoni hålls.
Enligt gammalt mönster kommer mördarna att prisas av president Abbas och hedras som hjältar och förebilder för det palestinska folket. Vilket i sin tur kommer att leda till att det blir lätt att rekrytera nya terrorister, vem vill inte bli hela folkets hjälte? Enklast blir man det om man slår ihjäl en jude.
Frigivningen av mördare väcker naturligtvis starka känslor i Israel och regeringspartierna är också oense i frågan.
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 Israel announces names of Palestinians to be freed in next stage of prisoner release (Jerusalem Post)

"...All of the 26 prisoners on the IPS list were either convicted of murder or attempted murder. Among the most notable cases is Damouni Saad Mohammed Ahmed, who was convicted of involvement in the brutal lynch of IDF reservist Amnon Pomerantz in the Gaza Strip in 1990.
Another Palestinian set to be freed is Massoud Issa Rajib Amer, a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine who in 1993 was convicted of brutally hacking to death Ian Feinberg, a young lawyer who spent time in Gaza cultivating ties to the local Palestinian community while trying to promote economic projects.
Amer was also convicted of killing three Palestinians suspected of collaborating with Israel.
Israel will also release Tukeman Yusef Suleiman Mahmed, Abu Hanana Zakariya Udia Usama, and Abdel-Aziz Said Kassam Ahmed, three men involved in the 1992 shooting death of Moshe Biton. Biton was shot and killed after entering a convenience store, and his wife was shot after trying to tend to him.
Samarin Mustafa Kalib Asrar and Kra'an Azat Musa Musa, the two Fatah terrorists who abducted and murdered Israeli soldier Tzvi Klein in the West Bank in 1992 are also scheduled to be released this week.
Abu-Dahila Hasan Atik Sharif, a Fatah operative who was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Avi Osher, his Israeli employer at the Jordan Valley farm he owned, in 1991, is also among those to be freed this week.
Gnimat Amar Mahmad Mustafa and Gnimat Mahmoud Mahmad Ziad, two Palestinian men convicted in the murder of Meir Ben-Yair and Michal Cohen while they sat in a car in Judean foothills in 1985 are also set to be freed.
The two Palestinians convicted of killing Yoself Eliyahu and Leah Elmakayes are also among the 26 names announced by the IPS late Sunday. Yosef Mahmad Haza Haza and Beni-Hasan Abdalla Mahmud Otman were serving life sentences for the murder of Eliyahu and Elmakayes, two hikers trekking across a forest in the Gilboa Mountains.
Asor Masbach Khalil Mahmad, who was serving a 30-year jail term for the murder of Israeli taxi driver David Kaspi in 1985, will also go free this week, the IPS announced.
Abed al Raba Nimr Jabril Issa, the Palestinian man convicted of killing Revital Seri and Ron Levy while they were hiking in 1984, is also on the list of prisoners scheduled to be released this week.
Sabbag Ahmed Mahmud Mahmed was a young Fatah operative who was given a life term in prison for the torture and murder of three Palestinians suspected of collaborating with Israel in 1990. He, too, will be released this week."