Israel Grants Amnesty to Scores of Mass Murderers

Some have killed many Israelis personally. Others have only directed suicide bomb attacks:

The list of Palestinian Arabs granted amnesty this weekend by Prime Minister Olmert of Israel is composed of members of President Abbas's Fatah Party and includes almost the entire senior West Bank leadership of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, The New York Sun has learned.

The Al-Aqsa Brigades, Fatah's self-declared military wing, have taken responsibility for every suicide bombing in Israel the past three years.

Mr. Olmert's office hasn't released the names of the 178 Palestinian Arabs granted amnesty, but sections of the list obtained by the Sun include Al-Aqsa's overall chief, Ala Senakreh, the leader of a cell from which a suicide bomber killed 10 civilians ? including an American teenager, Daniel Wultz ? in Tel Aviv in April 2006, and the perpetrator of a December 2000 shooting that killed Israeli nationalist leader Benyamin Kahane.

The government has issued 178 documents promising that, in return for a signed pledge to resign from any paramilitary organizations and to refrain from terrorism, Israel will not conduct antiterror operations to capture the Fatah fugitives.

Of course, Palestinian terrorists can't resist adding insult to injury. Most newspapers are reporting that part of the deal involves their "turning in their guns." The truth is that they have agreed to sell their guns and will then receive their regular salary as part of the "security forces." The price of a gun? Up to 60,000 shekels (over $14,000). Then many will be reissued "official" guns.