{"id":2155,"date":"2007-01-05T12:46:46","date_gmt":"2007-01-05T10:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/05\/abbas-to-olmert-release-terrorists-even-if-caught-in-act-of-murdering-jews\/"},"modified":"2007-01-05T12:46:46","modified_gmt":"2007-01-05T10:46:46","slug":"abbas-to-olmert-release-terrorists-even-if-caught-in-act-of-murdering-jews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/05\/abbas-to-olmert-release-terrorists-even-if-caught-in-act-of-murdering-jews\/","title":{"rendered":"Abbas to Olmert: Release Terrorists, Even if Caught in Act of Murdering Jews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imra.org.il\/story.php3?id=32327\"><strong>Weekly Commentary: Palestinian Demands to Free Terrorists &#8211; the Failed Litmus Test, by Dr. Aaron Lerner<\/strong><\/a>     <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imra.org.il\"> (IMRA)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Full Text;<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>If a Palestinian gunman was captured tonight as he was murdering an Israeli family what would &#8220;moderate&#8221; Mahmoud Abbas like Israel to with him?<\/p>\n<p>Release him.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s right.<\/p>\n<p>This is a fundamental problem.<\/p>\n<p>Because when Palestinian &#8220;moderates&#8221; want Israel to release all Palestinian terrorists regardless of when they committed their crimes, they are effectively saying that no Palestinian commitment is binding. &#8211; including the very anchor commitment of Oslo to abandon violence.<\/p>\n<p>In the heady early days of Oslo when some leading Israeli Leftists argued for the release of terrorists with &#8220;blood on their hands&#8221;, the debate was over murderers serving time for pre-Oslo crimes. Post Oslo crime was just that: crime.<\/p>\n<p>But not in the eyes of the Palestinian &#8220;moderates&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>For these Palestinians, terrorists aren&#8217;t guilty of murder &#8211; at most they are guilty of bad PR for the cause.<\/p>\n<p>When, then, do the &#8220;moderates&#8221; think Israel will have the right to punish terrorists?<\/p>\n<p>After all Palestinian demands are satisfied in a final status arrangement.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weekly Commentary: Palestinian Demands to Free Terrorists &#8211; the Failed Litmus Test, by Dr. Aaron Lerner (IMRA) Full Text; If a Palestinian gunman was captured tonight as he was murdering an Israeli family what would &#8220;moderate&#8221; Mahmoud Abbas like Israel to with him? Release him. That&#8217;s right. This is a fundamental problem. Because when Palestinian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}