Israel’s ‘Goodwill’ Gesture Shouldn’t Be Their Last
Israel frees 250+ low-security prisoners
In an effort to boost Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Israel has released around 255 prisoners with short sentences. Primarily members of the Fatah faction, the prisoners were released to strengthen Abbas after Hamas Islamists took control of the Gaza Strip last month.
Reuters reports that “Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has described his decision to free 256 low-security prisoners, most of them with relatively short sentences left to run, as a goodwill gesture to bolster Abbas’s new government.”
Every goodwill gesture needs to be followed by another. This small yet positive step is another opportunity for Israel and the Palestinians to mitigate the historic cycle of tit for tat.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will either capitalize on this or wait for another reprisal while polishing their pistols.
Time will tell.
Stumble it!
This is a conflict that will never end. Israel is more than likely willing to let them go and finish the job of taking them out one by one the way they meant to the first time, once captured they are unable to complete that mission.
Israel views the only way to end this conflict is to kill every last militant in the defense of its nation. It’s the only way.
The really sad part is that the USA fully (at the very least financially) supports this campaign of extermination. There isn’t a lot of sincerity in asking for peace while donating billions upon billions of military aid to Israel annually.