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Israel Releases Prisoners
July 19th 2007 General

Report:

Israel released more than 250 Palestinian prisoners Friday in an attempt to bolster moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in his power struggle with Hamas.

Most of those released were from Abbas’ Fatah movement. Prominent among the freed prisoners was 61-year-old Abdel Rahim Malouh, second-in-command in a small PLO faction, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which assassinated an Israeli Cabinet minister in 2001.

…Public Security Minister Avi Dichter, a former head of the Shin Bet internal security service, supported the release. “This is certainly an acceptable risk Israel is taking in order to strengthen the regime of Abu Mazen,” he said earlier this week, referring to Abbas.

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  • Barry
    July 20th, 2007 | #1

    “This is certainly an acceptable risk Israel is taking in order to strengthen the regime of Abu Mazen”

    Acceptable Risk. Turning loose a committed killer, committed destroyer of the Israeli State is acceptable risk. Are these fools arrogant, or just plain stupid? Has the entire world gone mad, including the Israeli’s?

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