for the sake of all Creation
Last Friday (Dec 28th) Haaretz Israeli newspaper published an op-ed commenting on the controversy of prisoner release by Israel
I appreciate the subject of the release of prisoners being brought to the awareness of your readers. (Reconciliation begins in prison Akivar Eldar Weeks End Dec28)
From the perspective of this side of the Green Line I think it important that in all the concerns and discussions of a final status agreement ; the issue of criminal actions by Palestinian citizens against Israelis be directly and clearly dealt with.
It is intolerable that after an agreement on the cessation of hostilities is enacted by Israel and the Palestinian authorities, after the release of some prisoners; that the murder of Israelis by Palestinian citizens not be prosecuted by the Palestinian judicial system.
To take the case presented of the Irish/British agreement, surely at some point after the prisoner release the commission of murder and other crimes by Irish nationalists no longer warranted automatic release by the authorities.
So my question is; at what point will any Palestinian authority that may arise begin seeing the murder of Israelis by Palestinians as murder and not as a legitimate expression of grievances, which may well continue to be seen as legitimate on the part of certain individuals and groups. When will murder no longer be seen as legitimate expressions of the armed struggle.
NOTE: on the poster celebrating the university of the founding of Fatah, considered the moderate Palestinian party which we should and can conclude an agreement on living as neighbors appear; the form of Israel + the west bank, all covered by a Palestinian colored kefeah. Along side that is the classical Kalashnikov rifle, symbol preeminent of armed struggle.
