It Will Never Be Enough
Extry! Read all about it! Israel releases some prisoners, Holocaust denier wants ’em all! Israel Frees 159 Palestinians, Abbas Wants More Out.
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Israel freed 159 Palestinian prisoners on Monday as a gesture to Egypt and moderate new Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, but he called for a “serious release” of thousands of security detainees.
Abbas, trying to persuade Palestinian militants to stop fighting to help revive talks on Palestinian statehood with Israel, has made prisoner releases part of his campaign for a Jan. 9 presidential election after Yasser Arafat’s death.