I left something out of yesterday's cynical list:
I have been documenting how Olmert's release of 250 Fatah terrorists without blood on their hands wasn't actually 250, wasn't actually Fatah, and wasn't actually without blood on their hands.
I omitted the part about how "they won't necessarily be anti-Hamas," which was Olmert's entire pretext.
Fortunately the Olmert administration is insisting on having them sign a document promising not to work in Hamas any more. I just hope he remembered to have them sign something against Muhammad's dictum that "
war is deceit":
Israel on Tuesday released former Palestinian Education Minister Nasser Shaer and Hamas member Ramadan Shadat from prison, the IDF said in a statement.
The statement said Shaer was in administrative detention - imprisonment without trial - and was released under an agreement that he would sign a statement renouncing his membership in Hamas and declaring he would not hold positions in the Palestinian Authority for Hamas or any other illegal organization.
Shaer was the most senior among 33 Hamas leaders, including lawmakers, rounded up by Israeli security forces in the West Bank last May....
Prominent on the list is Abdel Rahim Malouh, second in command of PFLP, the group behind the 2001 assassination of tourism minister Rehavam Ze'evi at a Jerusalem hotel....
Families of terror victims were outraged at the pending release of Palestinians they said had been involved in the murder of their loved ones.
Michael Theler, whose 16-year-old daughter, Rachel, was killed in the 2002 bombing of the Yuvalim Mall in Karnei Shomron, expressed anger that one of the leaders of the PFLP, the group that took responsibility for the attack, was included in the list.
"How can the government release the person who killed my daughter?" Theler asked in a Channel 1 interview. "What can I do? Will anybody listen to me?"
