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Palestinian Heroes
(Wall Street Journal) Editorial - Salameh Abdallah Musleh, imprisoned for the murder of convenience-store owner Reuven David, is being released as part of a deal orchestrated by Secretary of State John Kerry to resume peace talks with the Palestinians. "Abdallah, together with an accomplice, entered David's convenience store on May 20, 1991, bound David's arms and legs and beat him to death," according to the Times of Israel. Every society has its criminals, psychotics and killers. But it says something about the current Palestinian leadership that it has made the release of killers a condition of peace talks. It also says something about the moral values of too many Palestinians that they should treat the returning prisoners not as pariahs but as heroes. The Israeli decision to release the prisoners was shortly followed by the approval of additional construction permits for housing in east Jerusalem and West Bank settlements. The move elicited howls of condemnation, as if building houses is more objectionable than murdering people in cold blood.