The suicide murderer who killed five Israelis in Hadera was let out of Israeli jail last month as a good will gesture:
The suicide bomber who carried out the attack was identified as a 20-year-old resident of the town of Qabatiyeh in Samaria. The bomber’s name, Hassan Abu Zeid, was announced over a bullhorn in the town, residents said. Israel Radio reported he was released about one month ago from Israeli prison, as a prisoner who did not (yet) have “blood on his hands.”
Kind of puts in perspective the Palestinians’ demands on Israel to release more prisoners and the United States’ demands on Israel to open up its border crossings.
Palestinians are also calling on Israel not to endanger the ceasefire by doing anything, you know, non-ceasefire-ish:
“Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat condemned the attack and expressed hope that the relative cease in violence between Israel and the Palestinians would be maintained.” “We condemn this attack in Hadera, as we’ve always condemned suicide attacks on Israeli civilians, and we hope that we will not allow this attack or any attack to undermine the cessation of violence between the two sides. At the end of the day, violence breeds more violence and we don’t want to go back to this vicious cycle.”
That they have not always condemn suicide attacks on Israeli civilians seems a little beside the point when they’re calling on Israel not to “undermine the cessation of violence” in the wake of a violent suicide attack.
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