Tuesday December 8, 2009

I've Been Thinking:

There are some serious obstacles to be over come in the Gilad Shalit negotiations. Some of the information that is bouncing around is totally without merit, some seems very plausible.

One bit of info was gleaned form court papers presented to the Israeli Supreme Court. In the Government's response to a challenge concerning the prisoner exchange the court listed a definitive number of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails slated for release as part of the deal. That number is 950.

Israel still has some serious issues to resolve regarding the prisoners:

For example: 125 prisoners originally from Gaza want to make certain that once they are released and deported they are not deported back to Gaza.

For example: there are prisoners who lived in Israel prior to their arrests and were imprisoned before the Oslo Accords were signed and so technically, they should not be part of the deal at all.

Of those 20 are Israeli Arabs, 1 is from the Golan Heights and 44 are from East Jerusalem.

Israel does not want these released prisoners/terrorists wandering around Israel freely and planning and perpetrating more terror attacks.

Not to be forgotten or minimized is the release of Marwan Barghouti, the biggest of all the big wig prisoners slated for release in this deal.

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