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Sir, - With unfortunate growing counterproductive public pressure against the government, to give in to Hamas's demands to release 1,000 prisoners in exchange for Gilad Schalit, yesterday's horrendous perpetrators don't seem to have anything to worry about. When Israeli security force...

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Published inThe Jerusalem post
Main Authors Hirsch, Uri, Copperman, Aharon, Attias, Levi J, Armoni-Eyal, Rivka, Zion, Monty M, Hoffenberg, Edwin, Geldman, Ardie, Richter, Leo
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Jerusalem The Jerusalem Post Ltd 02.09.2010
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Summary:Sir, - With unfortunate growing counterproductive public pressure against the government, to give in to Hamas's demands to release 1,000 prisoners in exchange for Gilad Schalit, yesterday's horrendous perpetrators don't seem to have anything to worry about. When Israeli security forces find them, all they have to do is raise their hands in order to make sure they will be back at home in the near future. After being sentenced to life imprisonment, they can simply wait for their coming release in exchange for Gilad Schalit, or his unfortunate successor. Sir, - In petitioning the High Court of Justice against the withdrawal of three of MK Haneen Zoabi's parliamentary privileges ("IDF commandos 'came to kill peaceful activists' on the Marmara, Zoabi tells UN panel," September 1), prominent left-wing politicians claim that such withdrawal would not permit freedom of expression for those holding unpopular opinions. Sir, - Regarding Marilyn Henry's article "If it ain't broke, fix it" (Metro views, August 29), no amount of whitewashing - by someone who failed to mention that she had been on the payroll of the Claims Conference - can change the basic actuality. Here are the facts: