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Environmental Protection Minister Gilad Erdan.
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Likud minister: Free terrorists with 'blood on their hands' for Shalit
By Mazal Mualem, Haaretz Correspondent
Tags: Israel News, Gilad Shalit 

Environmental Protection Minister Gilad Erdan, a lawmaker in the ruling Likud party, said Tuesday that Israel should free terrorists who have caused the deaths of Israelis to secure the release of abducted Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.

"I have decided that it's fitting and necessary to release terrorists with blood on their hands for the release of Gilad Shalit," Erdan told the Knesset plenum.

Egyptian-brokered negotiations for Shalit's release broke down at the end of former prime minister Ehud Olmert's term after Israel refused to accept Hamas' demands, which included the release of Palestinians convicted of orchestrating mass terror attacks.
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Erdan, a rightist who called last year for Palestinian prisoners to be used as human shields against Qassam rockets, told the Knesset he had changed his opinion on the matter following Israel's 3-week offensive against Hamas in Gaza at the beginning of the year.

"The last thing I want is to turn the subject into a political struggle," he said, adding that the matter was the government's top priority.

Directing his comments to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his fellow ministers, Erdan said: "The tools are in our hands, and our job is to get up every day in the morning and bring back Gilad."

Shalit was kidnapped by Gaza militants in a 2006 cross-border raid. On Sunday, Netanyahu announced that former senior Mossad operative Haggai Hadas would take over negotiations with Hamas for his release, replacing Ofer Dekel, who had done so under Olmert.


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      1.   Gilad Erdan Is Wrong 19:19  |  Shepherd 02/06/09
      2.   Terrorists 19:26  |  Sam Soul 02/06/09
      3.   NO 19:53  |  17 - 02/06/09
      4.   THEY ALREADY DID! 21:53  |  me 02/06/09
      5.   Trade Likud minister 22:17  |  Bob 02/06/09
      6.   Many MK`s in Kenesset have blood on their hands! 04:52  |  American 03/06/09
      7.   Environment protection minister??hahhahhahha 05:02  |  Timothy Hawkins 03/06/09
      8.   right on, Gilad Erdan! 08:05  |  Jim 03/06/09
      9.   Put Gilad in place of Shalit 09:16  |  Baruch Gold 03/06/09
      10.   Free Terrorists... 13:51  |  Sabra 03/06/09
      11.   Slow down 15:51  |  Brod 03/06/09
      12.   rightists are such terrible liars.it`s torquAy admiral hawkins 17:17  |  paz 03/06/09
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