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Precondition To Talks

Israel to set free 104 Arab prisoners.

Ben Hartman
Jerusalem Post

A

s the Israeli cabinet has
voted to gradually release
104 Arab prisoners to
expedite the restart of peace negotia-
tions with the Palestinian Authority,
information about the prisoners has
surfaced.
A glance at the lists published by
the Palestinian Prisoners' Club (PPC)
and leaked to Israeli websites by
Israeli officials shows men respon-
sible for terror attacks ranging from
complicated, planned-out operations
to hastily crafted acts of brutal vio-
lence directed at Israelis.
Deep within the list are the names
of two Gaza Strip natives, Yusef Said
al-Al and Ayman Taleb Abu Sitteh,
who late at night on Dec. 31, 1993,
broke into the Ramle house of David
Bublil after he and an acquaintance,
Haim Weitzman, had turned in for
the night. They stabbed the two men
to death as they slept and then muti-
lated their bodies, cutting off their
ears as souvenirs.
Collectively, the small number of
Israeli Arabs on the list are respon-
sible for some of the most grisly
crimes of the pre-Oslo years.
They include the four men from
Wadi Ara — all members of the
Islamic movement — who took
part in the infamous "Night of
Pitchforks."
On the night of Feb. 14, 1992, the
four men infiltrated an IDF train-
ing base next to Kibbutz Galed and
attacked a group of teenage Nahal
recruits, hacking three of them to
death with hatchets, knives and a
pitchfork. The three men were sen-
tenced to three life sentences each.
Othman Abdallah Bani Hasan
and Haza'a Mohamed Sa'di have
both been in Israeli prison since
July 1985 for the murders of Afula
school teachers Leah Elmakayis and
Yosef Eliyahu, who were hiking in
the North when they were ambushed
and murdered.
The prisoners also include two
West Bank men responsible for one
of the most infamous attacks of the
first intifada. Juma'ah Ibrahim Adam
from Ramallah and Mahmoud Salem
Kharbish from Jericho were arrested
in October 1988 shortly after they
threw a Molotov cocktail at an Egged
bus north of Jericho, which burst
into flames killing Rachel Weiss and
three of her young children, includ-

ing an infant boy. The bombing
also took the life of soldier David
Delarosa, who ran on board in a
failed attempt to save the family.
In a similar incident, Mohamed
Adal Daoud threw a firebomb at a
car driven by Ophra Tal, killing her
and her son in December 1987.
The list also includes a number
of men arrested for the murders
of Israeli Arabs and Palestinians
accused of being collaborators with
Israel, including Yusef Abdel Hamid
Irshaid, who killed five people sus-
pected of collaborating.
The list also includes men who
murdered neighbors and co-workers,
employers and acquaintances.
Nablus native Sharif Hasan Abu
Dhailah will be set for release after
he, in May 1992, stabbed to death
Avraham Osher, his employer of
15 years at Moshav Bakat. Osher
was found stabbed to death in the
date field he managed at a nearby
moshay. His killer also worked at
the date field; and the two men were
reportedly longtime friends, with
both visiting each other's families on
a number of occasions.
In a kidnapping in August 1990,
Mohamed Yusef Shamasneh and
Abdel Jawad Yusef Shamasneh of
east Jerusalem forced teenagers Lior
Tubul and Ronen Karmani into a
truck near the Ramot junction and
took them to a dry creek bed near
Beit Hanina where, after a short
struggle, they stabbed both of them
to death.

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Former President George W. Bush
adviser Eliott Abrams, writing
in Israel Hayom, is critical of the
American role: "My question is why
the United States asks a friend to do
what it would not do — release ter-
rorists.
"The U.S. will bear none of the
risk that any of them may return to
violence, which makes its requests
and pressure difficult to justify mor-
ally. Nor does the U.S. face the ter-
rible problem of explaining to the
victims of these crimes, and their
relatives and survivors, why they
were set free.
"Meanwhile, American policy
toward terrorists remains tough and
uncompromising. Just this month,
U.S. President Barack Obama gave a
speech defending vigorously his use
of drone attacks. So, the U.S. esca-
lates its effort to kill terrorists while