Posted on 12/30/2013 6:21:03 PM PST by Nachum
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told US Secretary of State John Kerry that Israel would not release any Israeli-Arab prisoners in the fourth and final release, Channel 2 reported on Monday night, citing an Israeli official.Why should we have to 'replace' anyone we take off the list? Especially in light of the next line...Israel has been reluctant to release those prisoners that, unlike the Palestinian prisoners, live within the Green Line and have an Israeli ID.
Netanyahu has reportedly asked the Shin Bet and the Israeli Prisons Service to compile a list of other prisoners to replace the Israeli-Arab prisoners already on the list.
The Prime Minister's Office, however, said that Israel never committed itself at any stage to release Israeli Arabs. A decision to do so would entail another cabinet vote.
The official told Channel 2 that Israel felt "deceived" by Kerry, who caved to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' demand to increase the number of prisoners released from 82 to 104, and led him to believe Israel would be willing to release prisoners with Israeli citizenship.Why didn't Netanyahu say so six months ago? And since when have we outsourced our negotiations to John FN Kerry?
Netanyahu reportedly told Kerry that while Israel was not willing to release Israeli-Arab prisoners as a gesture to the Palestinians, it would be willing to release them as a gesture to the US, in return for the release of Israeli agent Jonathan Pollard.Pollard is not going to go for that.According to the report, Kerry has agreed to consider the proposal, but has yet to respond to it.
Labels: Binyamin Netanyahu, gestures, Israeli Arabs are a fifth column, John Kerry, Jonathan Pollard, Palestinian terrorists
I understand that you are busy spamming this Pollard traitor to the moon.
But, you accuse those of us who believe he should not be released as being Anti Semites or anti Israel.
So, the natural extension of your logic is that those who want him released are Anti Americans and enemies of America.
At a minium, there love for Israel, far exceeds their love for America.
I don’t call these guys America haters, or lovers of Israel more than America — and they all urge that Pollard be released right now!
Lawrence J Korb
Former US Assistant Secretary of State
Senator Allen K Simpson
Co-chair of the Presidents Economic Commission
Senator Dennis DeConcini
Former Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee
Bernard W Nussbaum
Former White House Council
Michael B Muckasey
Former US Attorney General
George P Shultz
Former US Secretary of State
Henry A Kissinger
Former US Secretary of State
R James Woolsey
Former CIA Director
...uh hugh....
I understand that you are busy spamming this Pollard traitor to the moon.
But, you accuse those of us who believe he should not be released as being Anti Semites or anti Israel.
So, the natural extension of your logic is that those who want him released are Anti Americans and enemies of America.
At a minium, there love for Israel, far exceeds their love for America.
I already explained that they are neither America haters or Israel lovers more than America.
However, you want to present it in that context (Israel-lover/America-hater), even when you see officials from the US Government saying that Pollard should be released right now.
That statement from you is obviously contrived - not matching the facts at all - regarding the people who want him released right now.
You’re deflecting.
Did you not say that those of us who do not want Pollard released, are Anti Semitic and anti Israel?
hehe
Jews can’t win: Support Israel and vote Republican? Divided loyalties! Israel Firsters! Vote Democrat? Self-hating Jews! Israel haters!
The important part is Jew-bashing, the tableau is just opportunism.
Christian really can’t win.
Support Israel consistently and intensely...
Don’t support letting a traitor spy out early, and we are anti Jew and anti Israel.
Where is your sense of objectivity?
I’ll admit that some of those people could simply be IGNORANT, and others perhaps plainly IDIOTIC. In some cases, they are people who have never heard of Pollard before, and they are giving knee-jerk reactions, without becoming aware of the DISPROPORTIONATE nature of the time served, by Pollard.
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