http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2011/10/26/new-palestinian-precondition/#more-772157
WHAT IS REALLY SHAMELESS IS ISRAEL’S WILLINGNESS TO “RETURN TO THE NEGOTIATING TABLE” WITH GENOCIDAL BARBARIANS…..ARABS CONTINUALLY MOVE THEIR GOALPOSTS… SPINELESS APPEASEMENT….RSK
Yesterday, Seth covered the substance of the newest entry on the Palestinian list of preconditions. They’ve now added “freeing mass murderers” to their two other demands that Israel halt settlement construction and start talks from the 1967 armistice lines. Those issues used to be topics for negotiation rather than preconditions, but the Obama administration’s Smart Power forced Abbas’s hand, and so they became pretexts for rejecting talks despite Netanyahu’s readiness to engage.
Now the Palestinians have found a new poison pill, although this time – in a poignant metaphor – they freelanced rather than follow America’s lead. The imprisoned Marwan Barghouti is a remorseless mass murderer and Ahmad Sa’adat is a sociopathic killer, even if international media outlets and foreign policy magazines label the former a “dissident” and coo over the latter as a gray-haired grandfather. There’s no appetite in Israel for letting them out.