יום שלישי, 13 באוגוסט 2013

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"Zionist media incitement against Palestinians"

Posted: 12 Aug 2013 10:00 PM PDT

Over the past couple of years, after it became clear that organizations like MEMRI and Palestinian Media Watch were exposing the virulent antisemitism and hatred and opposition to peace in the Palestinian Arab media, the other side started monitoring Israeli media looking for anti-Arab incitement, to show that Jews are at least as bad.

Here are some examples they dug up during May and June:

Yediot Ahronot dated 05/01/2013, mentions "the return of Palestinian terrorism" in reference to the stabbing murder of Evyatar Borovsky the day before.

Israel Hayom on May 5 said "the overwhelming number of terrorists are Muslim."

Israel Hayom, 5/5, had an article calling for striking Islamic terrorism in Judea and Samaria.

Yediot, 5/5, said the bedouin were taking over the Negev.

Makor Rishon, 5/13, said that Palestinian Arab prisoners were murderers and terrorists.

All the articles saying that Muhammad al-Dura was not killed by the IDF was considered to be incitement.

Israel Hayom, 5/20, discussed the Palestinian culture of lies that led to the Al Dura hoax.

They did bring a couple of cases that were close to legitimate examples of bias, for example the assumption that a bank robber in Beersheva was an Arab without (apparent) evidence, but I see very little that can be considered incitement in their examples - and this is without even checking if they were translating them accurately.

Sinai Jihadists claim responsibility for rocket to Eilat

Posted: 12 Aug 2013 07:01 PM PDT

The Mujahadeen Shura Council took responsibility for firing a rocket (or rockets) at Eilat early Tuesday morning.


This is not the Ansar Jerusalem group who had four members killed on Friday.

The statement says "In response to the recent crime of the Jews which killed four of the Mujahideen in the land of Sinai, the black Mujahideen Shura Council [announces] the bombing of the city of Rashrash 'Eilat' with a missile at one dawn on Tuesday."

The statement added that the missile caused the Jews to have "dread and horror" as they rushed to their underground shelters.

The Mujahideen Shura added that the city of Eilat "and other cities of the Jews" will not enjoy security nor tourism, pointing out that "the Jews will dearly pay the price for the blood of the mujahideen.

Iron Dome intercepted one rocket. Residents reported hearing two explosions, one of which may have been Iron Dome firing.

SpongeBob found a new job

Posted: 12 Aug 2013 05:00 PM PDT

Baruch Hashem,  Spongebob Squarepants managed to land on his freakishly tiny feet.

Last we saw, Spongebob was reduced to begging for money while withering in the heat of Las Vegas after he was suddenly  fired from his job at Elder of Ziyon.

Well, I placed a few calls within the International Zionist Web, and found a great gig for him - as spokes-sponge for Sabra hummus!

Here is was spotted in a Nashville supermarket:


No comment yet from the BDS crowd as to whether they will boycott him now.

(h/t L. King)

8/12 Links Part 2: Best of Latma, Against All Saidists, Tel Aviv No. 2 City For Tech Startups

Posted: 12 Aug 2013 02:30 PM PDT

From Ian:
Best of Latma Part 1



Against All Saidists... and in Defence of the West
Orientalism, however, is an accusatory and deeply reactionary text, the catastrophic effects of which continue to be felt in both Occident and Orient. Demonstrably ahistorical and flawed though its arguments are, large parts of Western academia (perhaps encouraged by Gulf funding) and Western culture in general have internalised them to such a degree, they are convinced that universalist value judgements about Islamic culture are simply a projection of their own inescapable racism. Consequently, they have fallen silent about human rights abuses committed by anyone but the West (and, naturally, Israel).
Meanwhile, in the Muslim world, religious fundamentalists have been adept at weaponising the bitter mindset of conspiracism, victimhood and vengeful grievance that Said encouraged, and directing it towards the West and the Jewish State. There remains a stubborn tendency to blame European Imperialism, American neo-Imperialism, Western cultural imperialism and 'colonial feminism', 'Orientalism', Zionism and sundry other -isms for the parlous state of their societies, rather than the regressive cultural and religious values that inhibit personal emancipation and retard learning, research and political/economic development. (h/t EOZ)
Palestine: History of a Name
I've recently condemned the focus on Reza Aslan's religion – Islam – when talking about his new book about Jesus, "Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth". I think there is no room for propaganda when reviewing history. No one is objective. But we can try to be truthful.
Putting aside the thesis of his book i.e., that Jesus was an anti-Roman Jewish revolutionary, in all his interviews, Aslan goes out of his way to refer to Jesus' Judea i.e., the land of the Jews, as "Palestine". For all I care, he can call it "Nebraska", as long as he doesn't give the impression that this is really what it was called by the inhabitants of Judea in Jesus' time. But Aslan wraps this "Palestine" name with a veneer of history. When challenged on his use of the name "Palestine" for ancient "Judea", his answer is that he's using the "Roman designation" for the area. According to Aslan, this designation was "Syria Palestine". This is absolutely wrong. More than this, it demonstrates a certain cynicism when manipulating history for the purpose of ideology. Let's look at this word "Palestine". Where does it come from?
Douglas Murray: Pretenses the West Goes On Pretending
"Hear no evil, see no evil," the old saying goes. And so the new presidency of Iran continues as the old one intended to go on. And the West continues the pretense that it wishes to go on pretending. For with Rouhani, as with Ahmadinejad, there will always be those – officials, semi-officials, non-officials – who will claim that the leader has been misrepresented or mistranslated, and then the rest will all go away. Won't it? Or was the very presence of Rouhani at al-Quds day, like that of the North Korean officials at the swearing-in and the promise of greater cooperation between these rogue regimes against the US and its allies, all just misspeak too?
The root of the problem with our relations with Iran is not a problem of mishearing or mis-speaking. It is a problem of our not listening. Not listening to the words that have repeatedly come from their mouths. And not recognizing that the whirring noise in the background is not the noise of their subtle brains working overtime, but of their centrifuges performing that very task.
Iran's new defense minister orchestrated attacks on US, Israeli forces
Iran's new president, Hasan Rouhani, has appointed Brig. Gen. Hossein Dehghan as the new defense minister in place of Brig. Gen. Ahmad Wahidid. Dehgan, according to a report by Brig.-Gen. (ret.) Dr. Shimon Shapira, a senior research associate at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, was responsible for attacks against U.S. and Israeli forces in Lebanon in the 1980s.
The appointment will become official once it is approved by the Iranian parliament.
Dehgan has reportedly served in the Revolutionary Guard his entire military career, since the Islamic revolution in 1979. According to Shapira's report, after Israel's invasion of Lebanon in the summer of 1982, Dehghan was sent to Lebanon. He served as commander of the training corps of the Revolutionary Guard, first in Syria and soon after in Lebanon. In this role he was responsible for building up military force of Hezbollah, which was also established at that time.
Washington Post: Iran Luring Latin American Students to Tehran for Indoctrination, Program Headed by AMIA Bombing Suspect
The article cited a report issued in May by an Argentine prosecutor who found evidence of "local clandestine intelligence networks" created by Iran in Latin America aimed at developing a "capability to provide logistic, economic and operative support to terrorist attacks decided by the Islamic regime."
The program is supervised by Iranian cleric and government official Mohsen Rabbani who is wanted internationally on terrorism charges, the Washington Post said. As cultural attache in Buenos Aires, Rabbani was accused by Argentina of aiding the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center that killed 85 people, the country's deadliest terrorist attack.
Russia set to build a new nuclear plant for Iran
According to a report from the Russian news site RiaNovosti, citing the semi-official Iranian news agency Mehr, Salehi said that negotiations on the planned site were nearing a conclusion.
"Iran has held consultations with the Russian side and soon an agreement of mutual understanding will be signed on the construction of a new nuclear power plant," Salehi said.
Last week Russian parliament speaker Sergei Naryshkin attended newly elected Iranian President Hasan Rouhani's inauguration in Tehran. Naryshkin said Russia and Iran may expand collaboration in civilian nuclear-power engineering after the Bushehr site becomes Iran's first fully operational nuclear power plant this coming September.
'Moderate' Rouhani Misled West, Sneaked in Centrifuges? The reactor is to be brought online in 2014, according to Iran's projection.
There is a particularly interesting aspect to the video that has recently surfaced, in which Iran's new president, Hassan Rouhani, gloats over Iran's success in coopting European negotiators to keep the Iranian nuclear program on track in the mid-2000s, in spite of pressure from the United States.
The video clip, from an Iranian news-program interview of Rouhani in Farsi, was published by Reza Khalili. Ryan Mauro highlights it at the Clarion Project, tying it to a report from 31 July in which Mauro outlined Rouhani's extensive history of using deception about the Iranian nuclear program back when he was the chief nuclear negotiator for Tehran.
Urge Swiss to Withdraw Nomination of Qaddafi Ally to UN Rights Post
We urge you to withdraw your government's nomination of Jean Ziegler to the UN Human Rights Council Advisory Committee, the election for which is scheduled for September 27, 2013.
If elected, Mr. Ziegler, who has written books advocating "reasonable hatred of the West," would absurdly occupy one of only three seats allotted to Western countries. The official criteria for the position are expertise in human rights, high moral standing, independence and impartiality. An analysis of Mr. Ziegler's record raises serious questions as to his satisfaction of these requirements.
No perfect answers: My 2 years as an IDF spokesperson
Reflecting on the past two years representing the IDF in the West Bank, so many thoughts run through my mind – lessons learned, ideas discovered, emotions felt, and experiences had. For the past two weeks, I have tried to sum it all up, rather unsuccessfully. Overwhelmed with ideas, emotions and experiences, it has been difficult for me to write a comprehensive summary of all that I've seen, heard, felt, thought and learned. Nonetheless, this is my attempt at doing so, so that I can share with all of you – my friends, family, colleagues, and those who have joined me digitally – my final reflections before I leave my position as Spokesperson for the Judea and Samaria Division.
Whenever I brief on the situation in the West Bank, I am consistently struck by the complexities and intricacies of the IDF's critical mission in the area. While I have spent the past two years explaining incidents that involve our troops, this past Tuesday (Aug. 6, 2013), I found myself in the midst of a security event that could have ended very badly.
Rapper Pitbull Arriving in Tel Aviv for Monday Performance, Hotel Stocking Bar
Cuban-American rapper Pitbull – real name Armando Christian Pérez – will be arriving on Sunday night in Tel Aviv via private jet for a concert on Monday. Israel's Channel 2 reports that his hotel is busy stocking up with the hard partying performer's must-haves in anticipation of his arrival.
For his concert, which will feature seven other musicians and four dancers in Hall 1 of the Tel Aviv Fairgrounds, Pitbull has two full-time bodyguards, as well as a long list of requirements to make his short stay comfortable.
A breakthrough in inhalation masks for infants
Researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have made a breakthrough that could lead to radical changes in the design and effectiveness of inhalation masks for infants.
Until now, infants' inhalation masks have been miniature versions of adult ones. Since very small children's faces contain features that are different in their relative proportions from those of adults, the masks currently in use often fit poorly, with serious gaps between the mask and the infant's face. This leads to treatment deficiencies, since dosages of medicine, when exposed to air, lose their therapeutic function. Ill-fitting masks also cause discomfort to the wearer.
Israeli tablet helps seize int'l crime ring
A technology for the extraction and analysis of data from cellular phones, which was developed by Israeli company Cellebrite, helped expose a wide-scale crime ring in a recent operation which included the arrest of 46 members of an international crime organization and the confiscation of assets worth €13.75 million (about $18 million).
The crime organization was uncovered in a joint operation launched by the Belgian and Spanish police forces, with the help of the European Union's law enforcement and criminal intelligence agencies, Europol and Eurojust.
Tel Aviv No. 2 city for tech startups
The Boston Globe, one of the most important newspapers in the United States, has named Tel Aviv the world's second best city for tech startups, after Silicon Valley in California.
Startup Genome, a resource for tracking and building startups, formed a list of the world's leading high-tech cities for startup entrepreneurs. Tel Aviv precedes New York, which only made it to the fifth place, Los Angeles (3) and London (7).
Eight factors were tracked to determine the ranking: Total activity of entrepreneurship in the region, amount of active and comprehensive risk capital, total performance and performance potential, how many risks founders took, ability to adopt new technologies, quality of support network, talent and differences between Silicon Valley. (h/t Jewess)

Abbas' Presidential Guards page edits PA flag onto Kotel

Posted: 12 Aug 2013 12:30 PM PDT

From Palestinian Media Watch:

Last week, the official Facebook page of Mahmoud Abbas' Presidential Guard posted a picture of the Western Wall with a Palestinian flag superimposed on it.

Text on the flag:
"The Al-Buraq Wall"
(Muslim term for the Western Wall of the Temple Mount)

Text on picture:
"Public Relations and Information - The Presidential Guard"
"Palestinian youth know their rights"

Palestinian Media Watch has documented that the Palestinian Authority rejects that the Western Wall, the remnant of the Temple Mount destroyed by Rome in the year 70 CE, is a Jewish holy site, and claims it as an exclusively Islamic holy site.

Don't feed Palestinian Arab babies food. Better to feed them lies.

Posted: 12 Aug 2013 10:30 AM PDT

We mentioned last week that Jordanian MP Tareq Khoury called for Jordan to kidnap Israeli diplomats and tourists.

Here is the banner photo  Khoury uses on Facebook.


Don't feed the baby food. Feed it lies instead.

Just reason #1904 that peace is impossible.

8/12 Links Part 1: How does freeing murderers bring peace?, Palestinians Build a Settlement

Posted: 12 Aug 2013 09:00 AM PDT

From Ian:
Housing Minister Ariel: How does freeing murderers bring peace?
Politicians came out for and against releasing prisoners Monday, after the government decided overnight Sunday to let 26 terrorists out of jail.
"Terrorists belong in jail. Otherwise, the government is making a mockery of the legal system that ruled these vile murderers should be in prison," Construction and Housing Minister Uri Ariel said.
Ariel pointed out that the terrorists being released killed women and children, adding that "it's not clear to me how releasing murderers can bring peace."
"Releasing terrorists and peace are total opposites," he stated.
Abbas Vows to Free All Terrorists
Abbas stressed that he will continue to work towards the release of all terrorist prisoners.
On Sunday evening, the ministerial committee headed by Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon met and approved the release of 26 terrorists as part of a gesture to the PA.
PA urges ambassadors to refer to prisoners as 'freedom fighters'
A letter issued by the Palestinian foreign ministry which was made public Sunday urges Palestinian ambassadors to stress among international diplomats that the 104 long-serving prisoners set to be released by the Israeli government are not terrorists, as Israeli authorities claim, but "freedom fighters."
The letter, which was obtained by Haaretz, further claims that Israel itself is responsible for terrorist activities committed in its name and that the "political prisoners" had been forced to react to the Jewish state's aggression.
Abbas: None of the freed Palestinian prisoners will be deported
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said on Sunday that no freed Palestinian prisoners will be deported, despite claims by Israel that it will demand that some be sent to Gaza or neighboring Arab countries.
Abbas added that Israeli-Arabs and Jerusalem residents would be among the 104 prisoners released by Israel in the near future.
MK: Jailed PA Murderers Make $3,400 a Month
"If [the Palestinian Authority] asks for the release of the murderers as the first step, that says something about their priorities," he added.
He noted that the highest salary paid by the Palestinian Authority (PA) is that paid to terrorist murderers in Israeli jails. While a person serving in the PA security forces makes about 3,000 to 4,000 shekels per month ($850 to $1,150), the salary of a terrorist prisoner is between 10,000 and 12,000 shekels ($2,850 to $3,400)."
What is even worse, Elkin added, is that the more serious a terrorist's crime was, the higher his salary. "There is a very problematic educational message here," he said drily.
This is a celebration of Palestinian terror, say bereaved families
The bereaved families were to stage a demonstration on Monday afternoon in front of the Kirya Defense Headquarters in Tel Aviv to protest the prisoner release. On Sunday, they petitioned Israel's High Court of Justice in an attempt to prevent the release. The court has historically refrained from intervening in such processes.
Families of terror victims now have 48-hours to appeal the government decision.
Terrorists Who Murdered Seniors with Axes to be Released
Al Haj Othman Amar Mustafa, who murdered Steven Rosenfeld on June 7, 1989, will be released as well. Rosenfeld went on a hike in the hills near Ariel, where he lived, when he encountered a group of shepherds who stole a knife that he had in his possession, stabbed him to death, and hid his body.
Another terrorist to be released is Abdel Aal Sa'id Ouda Yusef, who murdered Ian Sean Feinberg on April 18, 1983. Feinberg, who served for several years as an officer and lawyer in Gaza, had worked with commercial companies from Gaza and was murdered during a business meeting in Gaza City. Terrorists burst into the room and announced that they had come to kill the Jew. They then proceeded to murder Feinberg using a gun and an axe.
Ramahi Salah Abdallah Faraj, who murdered 84-year-old Avraham Kinstler in July of 1992, will be released as well. Kinstler was ambushed and murdered with an axe by a terrorist as he arrived to work at his orchard.
Among the terrorists to be released, the murderer of a Holocaust survivor
The list included 17 names of prisoners who had murdered Israelis, including Abu-Musa Salam Ali Atia of Fatah, who murdered Holocaust survivor Isaac Rotenberg in a Petah Tikvah construction site in 1994.
According to Almagor, an organization of terror victims' families that has campaigned against the prisoner release, Rotenberg's family perished in the Sobibor extermination camp during World War II. Rotenberg escaped and joined the partisans fighting the Nazis in the forests of Eastern Europe. He arrived in Israel in 1947, joined the IDF and fought in Israel's Independence War on the Lebanese front.
Livni: EU Doesn't Determine Borders
The European Union is not the body to determine issues relating to Israel's borders, Justice Minister Tzipi Livni said on Sunday.
Livni made the comments during a meeting with German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle, who met with Israeli officials on Sunday on a visit to support the resumption of peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.
Palestinians Build a Settlement
Though it was entirely unintentional, the New York Times deserves credit today for pointing out the hypocrisy of critics of Israel's settlement building. No, the paper hasn't reversed its policy of treating the presence of Jews in the heart of their ancient homeland as wrong or an obstacle to peace that is reflected on its news pages as much as it is on their editorial page. What they did was something more subtle than that and will require some context for their readers to understand. They published a feature about the Palestinians doing something that Israel hasn't tried in more than two decades, the building of an entirely new city in the West Bank.
Peres Peace Center rejects play for mentioning 'Jewish state'
The Peres Center for Peace decided not to include the play "Snow Ball" in its program for the visit of the Barcelona soccer team in Israel, because the play includes the line that "the state of Israel is the national home of all Jews."
The affair began in April of this year, when the new play, directed by Roy Horovitz, was performed as part of the Haifa International Children's Theatre Festival. The play is based on an original Israeli script that tells the story of Felipe, a 10-year-old new immigrant to Israel from Argentina who is a huge fan of FC Barcelona star Lionel Messi.
Harriet Sherwood parrots false charge of 'Water Apartheid'
Even if the rate of water consumption by the 200,000 or so additional Israelis who live in eastern Jerusalem (which the NGOs count as "settlers", and for which data doesn't appear to be available) is astronomically higher than the average Israeli consumption, Sherwood's claim that "600,000 Israeli settlers in the West Bank and East Jerusalem consume almost six times as much water as 2.7 million Palestinians" couldn't possibly be true.
Once again the Guardian cited a claim which is consistent with their anti-Israel narrative, but that simply is not backed up by the data.
BBC's Donnison returns – with an old party trick
Sadly, those weeks of absence have not honed Donnison's ability to produce accurate and impartial reporting. In an item comparing the size of the Gaza Strip to Australia which is apparently supposed to be whimsical or amusing, Donnison manages to squeeze in some of his tried and trusted old themes.
"There are neighbourhoods with some of the highest population densities in the world."
Bahrain blocks Hezbollah's al-Manar TV website
Sheikh Fawaz bin Muhammad al-Khalifa, the communications minister, announced that the government would block websites affiliated with organizations that are internationally recognized as funders and promoters of terrorism, according to a report by the Bahrain News Agency website on August 3.
In addition to Hezbollah's website, those run by al-Qaida will also be blocked.
JPost Editorial: Rethinking Camp David
Israel and the present Egyptian leadership have a common interest in neutralizing terrorist groups operating in Sinai, though Cairo could never admit to coordinating military actions with Israel against the Islamists. Still, Egyptian officials tipped off Israel of a potential rocket attack against the Eilat Airport, resulting in its temporary closure last Thursday.
As part of the battle against Sinai's Islamists, Israel and Egypt have agreed secretly or publicly to alterations to the Camp David accords. It seems the old arrangements underpinning security relations between the two countries are out-dated and ill-suited to an era when a quasistate run by Hamas has emerged in Gaza and when a hodgepodge of Beduin clans, al-Qaida-affiliated organizations and Salafists have filled the security vacuum in Sinai. Perhaps the time has come for Egypt and Israel to rethink these arrangements in an effort to confront the challenges emanating from Sinai.

PalArab org panics over report of $145M to "Judaize Jerusalem"

Posted: 12 Aug 2013 07:30 AM PDT

Ma'an Arabic reports that Dr. Hassan Khater, head of the Jerusalem International Center, said that Jews were in "frantic efforts to Judaize Jerusalem" noting that the UJA Federation of New York recently allocated $145 million on Jerusalem projects.

Khater notes that this is only the New York Federation - there are many others throughout the US that are also sending vast amounts of money to erase all signs of Islamic life in Jerusalem.

Khater added that "The Jewish money flowing to Jerusalem today has become much easier and more influential in the light of the almost complete absence of money from the Arab and Islamic world," as he stressed that "the steadfastness of Jerusalemites can not be achieved in words and wishes, but they must be supported with a similar continuous financial commitment."

If only!

The UJA-Federation of New York did manage to raise $145 million this year, but they spend that money all over the world, on things like assisting people in need, improving Jewish education, summer camps and other charitable needs; it looks like far less than half its budget is spent in Israel.

I have no idea if any of their funded programs are meant to "Judaize Jerusalem," a phrase that makes as much sense as "moistening water."

I guess Ma'an didn't consider that the head of an organization that is meant to Islamicize Jerusalem might be making facts up in order to shame Arab nations into giving him hundreds of millions of dollars.


PalArab media apparently scammed by fake report of Arafat statue in Ukraine (update)

Posted: 12 Aug 2013 05:58 AM PDT

Earlier today Ma'an Arabic reported on a new monument to Yasir Arafat unveiled recently in Kiev in a large ceremony with many Palestinian Arabs in attendance. It mentioned the name of the sculptor as well.

Then the story disappeared, but not before it was picked up by other Arab websites and Facebook pages. (It may have originated here.)

No one seems to have looked closely at the statue, though, because it shows Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin, a famed Russian writer and historian.

Which might explain why it disappeared from Ma'an.

However, some of the headlines in the media concerning the fake story are quite enlightening. They said "Yasser Arafat honored in the European capitals before Arab capitals."

And I had never thought about it, but I am not aware of any Arafat memorials in any Arab states! A quick search doesn't find any, although there were almost certainly false rumors about one in Brazil last year.

Apparently, no one in the Middle East or the West was really fooled by Arafat by the time of his timely demise. No one outside of Palestinian Arab areas is pretending he was a great statesman or leader, or even that he was a great military leader.

I think that this says volumes about the "peace process." I don't think anyone thinks any better of Abbas than of Arafat, as a leader or as a peacemaker. Yet the world keeps barreling forward as if he has any stature whatsoever, because of the bizarre notion that a fake peace plan signed now is more important than actual peace - one that requires leadership, mutual respect and real compromises.

The Arab world and the West all hailed Arafat as a great leader when he was alive. Upon his death, we can see that it was all an act -no one wants to honor the syphilitic master of lies nowadays. Today's concern over "peace" using a discredited land-for-peace formula where releasing murderers is considered a prerequisite before even "peace" talks can begin is, I suspect, an act as well, but one that is played out with gusto because no one in the West is wise enough to consider any alternatives.

UPDATE: I hadn't looked closely enough; the photo was Photoshopped to look more like Arafat. The original is here.

(h/t FJSC)

PA says releasing murderers is a step towards "peace." In Arabic they are complaining that it is not enough

Posted: 12 Aug 2013 02:56 AM PDT

From Ma'an:
The Palestinian Authority Minister of Detainees said Monday that Israel's decision to release the first group of Palestinian prisoners was an important step for promoting peace.

"President Abu Mazen has succeeded in putting the issue of prisoners as a political and national priority and saved it from unfair conditions imposed by Israel," Issa Qaraqe said.

The first stage of the prisoner release is a strategic step to toward the liberation of all Palestinian detainees, he added.

Abbas Zaki, a member of Fatah's Central Committee, also welcomed the prisoner release, saying freeing all Palestinian detainees was a key priority.

Israeli attempts to use the issue of prisoners as a bargaining chip is doomed to fail, he added.
You see that? Releasing murderers is a step towards "peace"!

Orwell lives!

In Arabic, the word "peace" isn't mentioned. Abbas Zaki in fact mentioned that this was a reminder of the first lopsided prisoner release to the PLO, a 1983 swap of 4700 Lebanese and Palestinian Arabs for 6 Israeli soldiers.

Also in Arabic the Palestinian leaders are complaining about the release of prisoners, saying that some of them would have been released soon anyway, and that 16 of them were unjustly sentenced to begin with (they were only "accomplices.") These were also not the most senior prisoners, nor the ones that have become "symbols." They are literally saying that this release is an insult and a "stab in the back" and the list is "childish" and an attempt to thwart negotiations.  Furthermore, they are complaining that some of the prisoners are being released to Gaza instead of the West Bank.

Ma'an has a list of the prisoners being released, but of course nothing about the victims.
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