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Last update - 00:00 18/11/2008
Abbas said to ask Olmert to free Barghouti as goodwill gesture
By Avi Issacharoff, Haaretz Correspondent, Haaretz Service and Reuters
Tags: Israel News, Marwan Barghouti 

Ramallah-based paper Al-Ayyam reported Tuesday that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas asked outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Monday to release Fatah militant leader Marwan Barghouti a goodwill gesture.

The paper reported that Abbas asked that Barghouti be freed ahead of next month's Eid al-Adha festival, making the request during a meeting with Olmert on Monday.

Abbas also reportedly asked the prime minister to release Popular Front Secretary General Ahmad Sadat, and Palestinian Legislative Council Speaker and Hamas member Aziz al-Dweik.
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Olmert, however, promised Abbas to release 250 prisoners, an Israeli spokesman said.

"The 250 prisoners will be released in advance of the upcoming Muslim holiday," said the spokesman, describing the move as a goodwill gesture towards Abbas, who revived peace talks with Israel after breaking with Hamas Islamist rivals last year. He insisted that the prisoners slated for release would not be aligned with Islamist movements.

Palestinian Minister of Prisoners Affairs Ashraf Eid al-Ajrami said that the identity of the prisoners to be freed for the Eid has yet to be determined.

Israel also agreed, the paper reported, to freeze demolition orders for 3,000 houses in the West Bank, and issue identity cards for 20,000Palestinians lacking identity documents.

Israel last freed Palestinian prisoners on August 25, during a visit by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who has been trying to broker a peace deal. At the time, it described the release of the 198 prisoners as a bid to bolster Abbas.


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      1.   Release Barghouti? 10:12  |  David Nigel Braham 18/11/08
      2.   Absolutely! Israel`s niggardliness has been its curse 10:25  |  Ivar 18/11/08
      3.   Alice In Wonderland. 10:31  |  Clickfool 18/11/08
      4.   "Goodwill Gesture" 10:38  |  Kamal Dis 18/11/08
      5.   Start with Shalit as good will gesture!! 10:50  |  Joe 18/11/08
      6.   Vile murderer can stay in jail 10:52  |  Ilan 18/11/08
      7.   The first Pal Prez... 11:10  |  Shtarka 18/11/08
      8.   How does releasing a convicted multiple murderer bring peace? 11:25  |  Michael J 18/11/08
      9.   Abbas needs to just go away 12:42  |  sam i am 18/11/08
      10.   Free Gilad Shalit as a betterwill gesture 12:44  |  x-ray 18/11/08
      11.   Good idea 12:47  |  Edith 18/11/08
      12.   With Obama coming up ... 12:50  |  Edith 18/11/08
      13.   Let the all go. 12:54  |  Charles Smyth 18/11/08
      14.   Olmert should free 250 rapists and 122 commandos 13:55  |  Avi 18/11/08
      15.   Of "moderate" terrorists and weak Israeli "leaders" 14:21  |  Yaakov K. 18/11/08
      16.   WHAT ABOUT SHALIT? 14:27  |  Petra 18/11/08
      17.   Time for Pals to make goodwill gesture 14:28  |  Rina 18/11/08
      18.   Release convicted murderers? 14:50  |  Realist 18/11/08
      19.   Gilad Shalit 14:52  |  Serge 18/11/08
      20.   I THINK HE SHOULD GIVE BACK ALL OFF ISRAEL 15:02  |  AVI 18/11/08
      21.   Are you F!!!!!!! kiddin` me??? 15:08  |  Dani 18/11/08
      22.   TOP TERRORISTS...MORE GOODWILL, LIKE 15:37  |  Harriet 18/11/08
      23.   Are we not missing something? 15:39  |  SA 18/11/08
      24.   release gilad and then maybe just maybe 16:10  |  dale 18/11/08
      25.   gesture 16:11  |  eli 18/11/08
      26.   Goodwill Gesture 16:19  |  Johnny Weintraub 18/11/08
      27.   See, this is the problem with Abu Mazen 16:24  |  Jacob Blues 18/11/08
      28.   Collaboration with Jihad is portrayed as goodwill gesture 16:47  |  Joseph.E 18/11/08
      29.   America released terrorists too 16:55  |  * BEN JABO 18/11/08
      30.   Ivar you`re deluded. Go and get treatment 16:55  |  readers 18/11/08
      31.   Maybe a Puppet 17:00  |  Mahmoud Hamdan 18/11/08
      32.   HAMAS AND BARGHOUTI 18:02  |  indrajaya 18/11/08
      33.   To # 8 Michael J - Goodwill Gestures.... 18:18  |  Dagma 18/11/08
      34.   Abbas has alot of nerve to ask to free Barghouti 19:17  |  Shepherd 18/11/08
      35.   future pa president 19:19  |  sam 18/11/08
      36.   Israel 2008 is an embaresment to jews worldwide 19:29  |  zionist forever 18/11/08
      37.   WHY NOT? AFTER ALL, ISRAEL IS INSANE 19:59  |  Barry S. Roffman 18/11/08
      38.   Noam Shalit slams Olmert for Goodwill gestures 20:00  |  The Threadmill 18/11/08
      39.   U.S. to release 250 rapists in good will gesture 20:09  |  Yacov 18/11/08
      40.   Hostage Negotiation... 20:20  |  Brendan 18/11/08
      41.   someone stop olmert already 20:28  |  vik 18/11/08
      42.   Anybody But Barghouti 20:30  |  Jeff Northridge 18/11/08
      43.   Barghouti 20:55  |  Lenny F 18/11/08
      44.   5 murders 20:57  |  Chris Elia 18/11/08
      45.   Jacob Blues, what planet are you on? 21:01  |  Ibrahim 18/11/08
      46.   #17 Rina 21:07  |  lily 18/11/08
      47.   TAKE,TAKE,TAKE.... 21:08  |  Ian 18/11/08
      48.   Ian, what is it you want? 21:29  |  Ibrahim 18/11/08
      49.   Would Barghouti show goodwill as well? 21:43  |  Walter 18/11/08
      50.   Ibrahim, what drugs are you on? 22:11  |  Gee 18/11/08
      51.   Petra @ 16 - What about Shalit? 22:14  |  Onlooker 18/11/08
      52.   To arabs/muslims, freeing murderers is a good will gesture... 22:43  |  Jordan 18/11/08
      53.   Reply to Barry (34) - Spot On 22:44  |  Tod Zuckerman 18/11/08
      54.   No Ibrahim, Abu Mazen does this because HAMAS declared war on him 22:46  |  Jacob Blues 18/11/08
      55.   #33 not to worry zionist forever--he will arrest them by nightfal 22:47  |  Labhras 18/11/08
      56.   Goodwill is a two way street 23:04  |  Murray of Montreal 18/11/08
      57.   were there any good will gestures from arabs during yom kipper? 23:35  |  vik 18/11/08
      58.   #42 Ibrahim....egypt says Hamas is foiling 23:41  |  Lynn 18/11/08
      59.   #50 Todd - Thanks, but #36 was Funnier 00:03  |  Barry S. Roffman 19/11/08
      60.   let them give us a good will gesture 00:09  |  Chaim 19/11/08
      61.   #48 IBRAHIM I SAID `REAL`,NOT APPARENT 00:25  |  Ian 19/11/08
      62.   What other country would consider releasing serial killer? 00:33  |  Yacov 19/11/08
      63.   Labhras # 51 Age, Sex, Guilt 00:52  |  Jeff Northridge 19/11/08
      64.   Jeff Northridge-you are funny #42 00:53  |  nouri 19/11/08
      65.   One of 11,000 prisoners and Abbas grovels 01:19  |  American Patriot 19/11/08
      66.   Release Barghouti? Bah - release Brian! 01:23  |  Joe Sittizen 19/11/08
      67.   barghouti has ALMOST as much blood on his hands as abbas 01:36  |  Arie 19/11/08
      68.   Trade Nasrallah (dead or alive) for Barghouti 01:43  |  Joe 19/11/08
      69.   Gee on `obligations` #50 01:47  |  Roo 19/11/08
      70.   Need Netanyahu to show them where the Sun.. 02:20  |  Donna 19/11/08
      71.   Roo #65 02:21  |  Gee 19/11/08
      72.   Is Barghouti a one-time terrorist or an incurable one? 02:54  |  Fortuna Benmayor 19/11/08
      73.   name 1 good will gesture by pals! time for 1 from them. enough 03:37  |  ralph 19/11/08
      74.   And demand these "goodwill gestures" in return 04:10  |  Dr. L. Brnd 19/11/08
      75.   Barghouti 06:45  |  rm 19/11/08
      76.   To Dr L Brnd # 74 - Israeli Rightful Claims 06:51  |  Dolly 19/11/08
      77.   They don`t want to release Barghouti for a couple reasons 06:52  |  ELIAS KHOURY 19/11/08
      78.   ibrahim #48, this is what israel wants of abbas 06:57  |  stavros 19/11/08
      79.   Barghouti will be released and become Prez 08:55  |  Shtarka 19/11/08
      80.   the only respect israel deserves today is of a weak circus act 12:16  |  zionist forever 19/11/08
      81.   Gee #71 brain into gear 13:30  |  Roo 19/11/08
      82.   stavros, adding to your post. 16:27  |  Ibrahim 19/11/08
      83.   What means (ISRAELs) NIGGARDLINESS ?! 00:58  |  Achnee 26/11/08
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