{"id":2728,"date":"2007-07-04T12:34:37","date_gmt":"2007-07-04T10:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/04\/olmerts-sleight-of-hand-on-prisoner-releases-3\/"},"modified":"2007-07-04T23:29:08","modified_gmt":"2007-07-04T21:29:08","slug":"olmerts-sleight-of-hand-on-prisoner-releases-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/04\/olmerts-sleight-of-hand-on-prisoner-releases-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Olmert&#8217;s Sleight-of-Hand on Prisoner Releases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/OlmertDapper1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.israelnationalnews.com\/News\/Flash.aspx\/129325\"><strong>Terror Victims: Gov&#8217;t &#8216;Covering Up&#8217; Illegal Release<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><strong><em>Related reports:<\/em><\/strong><\/center><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ynetnews.com\/articles\/0,7340,L-3421369,00.html\"><strong>High Court Okays Prisoner Transfer to Jordan, by Aviram Zino<\/strong><\/a>   (Ynet)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iris.org.il\/blog\/archives\/2414-Murderers-of-Israelis-Released-to-Jordan-to-Prevent-Hamas-Credit.html\"><strong>Murderers of Israelis Released to Jordan to Prevent Hamas Credit<\/strong><\/a>   <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iris.org.il\/\">(IRIS blog)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/servlet\/Satellite?cid=1183459184943&#038;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull\"><strong>State Firm on Terrorists&#8217; Extradition, by Dan Izenberg<\/strong><\/a>   (Jerusalem Post)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Full Text;<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>The government is trying &#8220;to cover up&#8221; its proposed release of Jordanian terrorists and has &#8220;proven that the State acted without fulfilling all legal requirements,&#8221; the Terror Victims Association (Almagor) charged. The government&#8217;s response to a petition to the High Court to cancel the agreement to free the terrorists &#8220;merely compounds the crime,&#8221; charged Meir Indor, director of the group.<\/p>\n<p>He accused Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of succumbing to years of pressure from the Jordanian government to free the murderers. The Prime Minister &#8220;is now trying to retroactively cover up his actions using legal claims&#8221; by arguing that the prisoners will complete their sentence in Jordan. &#8220;It is clear to all that Jordan&#8217;s intention is to release them as soon as possible,&#8221; Indor explained.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terror Victims: Gov&#8217;t &#8216;Covering Up&#8217; Illegal Release Related reports: High Court Okays Prisoner Transfer to Jordan, by Aviram Zino (Ynet) Murderers of Israelis Released to Jordan to Prevent Hamas Credit (IRIS blog) State Firm on Terrorists&#8217; Extradition, by Dan Izenberg (Jerusalem Post) Full Text; The government is trying &#8220;to cover up&#8221; its proposed release of [&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-2728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2728","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=2728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}