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Release of Palestinian Prisoners Sets Off an Israeli Backlash


(Telegraph-UK) Robert Tait - Scenes of Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian Authority president, kissing and hugging each Palestinian prisoner after their release provoked revulsion in Israel, with critics complaining that most of the inmates had been convicted of murdering Israelis. "Each one of us sees this and we ask ourselves, can we make peace with these people, who welcome murderers with flowers as if they were heroes," Silvan Shalom, the Israeli regional development minister, told Israel Radio. "If this is what they show the young generation, that these loathsome murderers are heroes, can we make peace with them? What kind of education is this for children?"
2014-01-01 00:00:00
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