Palestinian “foreign minister” Nabil Shaath says that an essential step toward renewing the peace process is for Palestinians to stand up, renounce genocide, put down their weapons, and begin building better lives for their children.

Just kidding.

Actually, he said an essential step to renewing the peace process is for Israel to immediately release every Palestinian terrorist and criminal being held in prison.

Palestinian Foreign Minister Nabil Shaath urged Israel to agree to a “total” release of prisoners. Such a step would be essential to renewing peace efforts, he told reporters in the West Bank city of Ramallah.

To show their good faith, Palestinians promised that if Israel doesn’t immediately restart the peace process by acceding to all Palestinian demands, they’ll begin kidnapping Israelis.

In the Gaza Strip, Abdullah al-Shami, a leader of the militant Islamic Jihad group called for kidnapping Israeli soldiers as a tactic to ensure the release of prisoners.

“The policy of kidnapping Zionist soldiers should be adopted,” said Shami, whose group had carried out numerous suicide bombings against Israelis. He said militants “are working on this.”

And remember the dumbass who blew himself up yesterday while making a bomb in his apartment? He wasn’t a dumbass. He was a martyr for the holy war.

Hours before Saturday’s protests, Islamic Jihad militants issued a statement that one of its members had been killed in a “holy war” action near the West Bank city of Nablus.

Israel army radio said the blast in Askar refugee camp on Friday night occurred while the Palestinian who was killed was preparing a bomb.

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