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Ilan Graper
As a law student, he went to Egypt to work in a legal aid organization, and was accused by the Egyptian authorities of spying for Israel and organizing actions against the Egyptian military authorities that rule the country.
Almagor charged, in a statement, that half of those who have been selected to be released procured weapons for the terrorists, while the other half are guilty of drug smuggling. The group accused the cabinet of turning Israel into a “Mediterranean bazaar” in which the fate of its abducted citizens is being negotiated, and of turning the Israeli prisoners into “commodities for terrorism and governments.”
The group also warned the Israeli citizens against traveling to Muslim countries, to Turkey or to Jordan, so that they should not become as Grapel.
Egyptian media reported that three of those on the release list were minors who had been accused of illegal entrance into Israel to sell cigarettes. They had been acquitted but remained into custody as the prosecution appealed the sentence.
The news about the release of the young student became public only after the Shalit swap, which was brokered with a large aid from Egypt. Israel recuperated a soldier that had been kidnapped by Hamas in 2006, and gave Hamas in exchange for him 477 Palestinian prisoners, which were released from Israeli prisons.
40 of these prisoners were banned the return to Gaza or the West Bank and were redirected toward Turkey, Syria and Qatar, where they are supposed to stay for the rest of their lives.
550 prisoners were released as a gesture of gratitude for Egypt, and were taken to the desert of Sinai, where the Egyptians took them. The Shalit swap also happened on Egyptian territory.
The Shalit swap was seen as a great victory of the Hamas, an organization Israel considers illegal and terrorist. Palestinian Authority announced that it would ask the Israeli Prime Minister to honor the agreement brokered with the previous PM Ehud Olmert and release some Fatah prisoners.
The move seems to have chances of being approved, as the Israeli cabinet is concerned over the fact that Mahmoud Abbas could leave the office and the power in the West Bank could fall into the hands of the extremists.
To that end even the IDF recommended that Abbas be given some compensation so that he may survive the tide that was brought against him by the Hamas victory and the failure of the UN bid to statehood, which is inevitable, they say.
Palestinians said that the need to release Fatah leaders and members will not be yet another condition but merely a promise Israel must keep.
It would seem that the voice of Avigdor Lieberman, the foreign minister who said that the peace negotiations would be better off without Abbas, is singular as even the PM’s cabinet had no comment on the statement and the Israelis are making sure he remains, as the IDF top officers called him, a genuine peace talks partner.
The swap with Egypt may include yet another Israeli citizen, Ouda Tarabin, a Beduin shepherd who was arrested by the Egyptians under the accusation of espionage while entering illegally their territory.
The Israeli foreign minister’s office said that efforts are being made so that Tarabin be included into that list of the swap.
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