De lange kerfstokken van de Palestijnse gevangenen die binnenkort vrij komen

 

Israel laat binnenkort een tweede groep Palestijnse gevangenen vrij. Eerder was overeengekomen dat Israel in ruil voor vredesonderhandelingen met president Abbas, in totaal 104 Palestijnse gevangenen zou vrijlaten. Het gaat om gevangenen die al lang vastzitten, al vanaf het Oslo vredesproces, en die allemaal bloed aan hun handen hebben. 

 

Het idee dat Israel de Palestijnen extra moet belonen om te gaan praten, vind ik vreemd: het is toch evenzeer in het belang van de Palestijnen om weer te praten? Ze doen dit toch niet als gunst voor Israel, maar uit eigenbelang, omdat ze vrede en een eigen staat willen? Op de een of andere manier hebben zij de idee post doen vatten, dat Israel allerlei extra’s moet doen en het al een hele gunst is dat de Palestijnen bereid zijn hun Israelische partners te zien. 

 

Dat gezegd hebbende, laat Israel hiermee zien dat het pragmatisch is en waarde hecht aan de gesprekken. Het zou mooi zijn wanneer de Palestijnen dit gebaar weten te waarderen en men rekening houdt met de gevoelens van Israelische slachtoffers en hun nabestaanden door geen overwinningstoespraken en feesten te organiseren. Abbas zou moeten erkennen dat ze weliswaar voor veel Palestijnen helden zijn, maar voor Israel plegers van bloedige aanslagen. Zo wijs is hij echter niet, en hij zal ze (als altijd) als helden eren. De PA media zullen ze als voorbeeld voor de Palestijnse natie neerzetten en hun geweld verheerlijken. En daar zit hem het probleem en de reden dat de kans erg groot is dat deze vredesbesprekingen niet veel zullen opleveren.

 

RP

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Some of the victims of the murderers being released 

 

From Times of Israel: 

 

The Israel Prison Service published the names late Sunday night of 26 Palestinian prisoners set to be released over the next 48 hours as part of a deal to keep the US-brokered Israeli-Palestinian peace talks on course. All are convicted murderers.

Among the prisoners to go free is Damouni Saad Mohammed Ahmed, who was convicted in the 1990 lynch of IDF reservist Amnon Pomerantz in the Gaza Strip — Pomerantz’s car was set on fire while he was inside.

The killer behind the 1993 murder of South-African-born Ian Feinberg, a 30-year-old lawyer and activist working with Palestinians in Gaza, will also be set free. Masoud Issa Rajeb Amer, a member of the PFLP, was sentenced to three life sentences for the killing, which was perpetrated with a hatchet. On April 18, 1993, Feinberg participated in a meeting in the Gaza offices of a European-funded NGO involved in aid projects whenterrorists burst in, ordered everyone, except Feinberg, to the floor, and proceeded to kill him.

Massalha Awwad Mohammed Yusuf and Amawi Hamed Alabad Halmi, both Hamas members who killed 22-year-old Yigal Vaknin in 1993, are also on the list. Vaknin was lured with a plea for help and stabbed to death. His body was found in a field near his home in Moshav Bazra in the Sharon region, two hours before the start on Yom Kippur that year. Yusuf was originally sentenced to two life terms for the killing.

Also included is Haga Salim Mahmud Mo’id who in May 1992 swam from Aqaba, Jordan to Eilat along with three other terrorists and shot 62-year-old Yosef Shirazi to death.Various weapons were found on Mo’id which led authorities to believe they planned a much larger attack.

 

JPost adds:

 

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.

 

YNet has the full list of murderers being released. Here are some additional victims I could identify from various lists of attacks:

Rafi Farhoud Karajeh, arrested in May 1985, had murdered Aharon Avidar, who was 28.

Hazem Kassem Shbair was one of the killers of Isaac Rotenberg, who was 67 when he was murdered with an axe. He was a Holocaust survivor. Shbair's partner in murder was released during the earlier release.

Najeh Mohamed Muqbel, together with his friend, murdered his employer. Ya'akov Shalom.

Abdel Rahman Yusef al- Haj murdered 42-year old Genia Friedman in 1992 on the street in Kfar Sava. He stabbed three others as well. Genia left behind am 11 year old daughter. 

Osama Zakariya Abu Hanani and Mohamed Yusef Turkeman shot and killed Moshe Biton and injured his wife Mali near a convenience store. Ahmed Said Abdel Aziz, also being released, planned the attack.