When Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas was in Israel, he praised the Jewish state for its freedom of religion in allowing Palestinians to make hajj to Mecca, while fellow Muslims - Hamas in Gaza - prevented Palestinians from passing through the border.
But when he got to Mecca, the PA president said a peaceful solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will not be reached until every single one of the 11,000 Palestinian prisoners are released by Israel.
"We ask Allah that they all be released. When we negotiate with Israel we speak of core issues such as Jerusalem, the refugees, the borders, the settlements, and more,” Abbas said in Mecca on Tuesday. “There is also the issue of the prisoners so there will not be a solution without their release."Lots of intercession going on down there in Saudi Arabia, I see.
Israel has already released a slew of prisoners and has another 230 signing out right now, but as Abbas intoned: “As we all know, over 11,000 prisoners are currently suffering behind bars in Israeli prisons.”
Abbas also took the auspicious moment to condemn "the ongoing crimes of the settlers in the West Bank" and called on the world to join him.
Many of the prisoners released already in “goodwill gestures” by Israel to Abbas’ government do not have blood on their hands, the term used to describe perps directly involved with terror attacks. But surely the entire lot of 11,000 would include several terrorists.
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