Here we go.
The Palestinian Authority is set to demand that the Quartet pressure Israel to release prisoners in fulfillment of a pledge made by former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to PA President Mahmoud Abbas, senior Palestinian sources told Haaretz on Monday.
Among the prisoners The PA wants released are Marwan Barghouti and Ahmad Saadat. The former is a member of the Fatah leadership, while Saadat is Secretary General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).
Abbas told Time Magazine a few days ago that, in 2008, Olmert promised him that Israel would release prisoners to the PA if a deal went through for the release of Gilad Shalit.Olmert confirmed to Time that he had made the pledge.
Now the PA wants to present the demand ahead of a possible renewal of negotiations with Israel.
(Via IMRA) Speaks for itself?
Actually, being from Ha'aretz, no, not quite. Barghouti is serving five consecutive life sentences plus 40 years for his conviction of three terror attacks in which five Israelis were murdered,
and also of attempted murder, membership in a terror organization and
conspiring to commit a crime, while Saadat is serving 30 years for the assassination of Israeli Minister of Tourism Rehavam Ze'evi and for his leadership role in the PFLP, a terrorist organization whose failure to murder more Israelis than it has is not due to a lack of trying.
Ha'aretz left that bit out.
