It's not perfect, but it is a start in the right direction?

Question

Israel agrees to release Palestinian prisoners
JERUSALEM - Israel’s cabinet agreed on Sunday to release 250 Palestinian prisoners in the latest attempt to strengthen Western-backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas after Hamas’s seizure of the Gaza Strip.

“I think this is a worthy gesture to make ... because we want to use any means that can reinforce moderate elements in the Palestinian Authority,” Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told the cabinet in broadcast remarks.

Olmert had pledged to free prisoners of Abbas’s Fatah movement in a June 25 summit with the Palestinian leader as part of a Western campaign to bolster the new administration he named after sacking a unity government with Hamas Islamists.
A government official said the cabinet voted 18 to 6 in favor of a motion to release 250 prisoners.

Answer 1

Albert Einstein once defined insanity as doing the same thing twice and expecting that the outcome will be different the second time.

I think we can assume that the Israelis are naive and believe the Arab terrorists each time they promise to behave. It is a pity, because for every concession Israel makes, the Arabs pay them back with murder and maiming of innocent Israeli citizens.


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Answer 2

step in the wrong direction. those thugs will go back to terror because that is the only thing they know. I look at it like this: by releasing them, Olmert himself kills his citizens.
No gestures!
Crush enemy until it cannot move, and that is how you achieve peace! Anything else is simply lying to yourself.

P.S. Israel makes the same #@%$#@% mistake time, and time again, and this time will not be any different. If you play with a snake, you will get bitten.

Answer 3

Only time will tell - the survival of the Palestinian Government in the West Bank is important to the peace process. Hamas has shown itself as only wishing to continue the conflict.

Good Luck!!!

Answer 4

I think you are away from the truth and many people knows that. What is happening is not a start for peace and many things like that happened before. Look at Monkeymaker 's answer and you will realize this is the mentality ruling Israel it's Zionism. Peace is against their plane and you will see soon. They are preparing for more violence and the weird thing that most of the Israelis are helpless they can't even control the situation or decide what to be done.

Answer 5

Personally,I think it's just more window-dressing - an outward show of reconciliation when in fact the zionists have no intention of returning the Palestinian's land and homes to them.

Answer 6

Dear ,
was it right from israel to arrest some Palestinian politicians some weeks ago?
it is just a political maneuver.
best of luck

Answer 7

Let me ask you a question:

A step in the right direction towards what?

You think that all those people are merely "political prisoners"?

I can assure you that every one of them deserve to stay there in jail.

And let us suppose for argument's sake that they are political prisoners. Then what does releasing them do? Well, Israel has done this many times in the past and nothing positive has come of it. So what is it a step towards?

Answer 8

I guess we'll find out. If those 250 prisoners return to a life of terror and violence then probably not; if instead releasing them causes an upsurge in Palestinian moderation then I guess so.

Answer 9

It is a good start. I just hope that israel can continue to rehabilitate it's human rights record.

Answer 10

I think it is a good gesture and let's hope it works.