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Freed Palestinian prisoners greeted by relatives as they arrive in the West Bank on Monday. (AP)
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Israel releases 429 Palestinian prisoners in gesture to Abbas
By Shahar Ilan and Jonathan Lis, Haaretz Correspondents and News Agencies
Tags: Israel, Palestinians 

Israel on Monday released 429 Palestinian prisoners, in a gesture meant to strengthen Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas after both sides decided at last week's U.S.-sponsored Mideast conference to try to reach a peace deal by the end of 2008.

At 11 A.M., all 21 Gaza prisoners had crossed into the coastal territory through the Erez crossing. A welcome reception was held for the West Bank prisoners in Ramallah, at Abbas' headquarters.

The prisoners, most of them from President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement, were given a joyous welcome as they arrived at checkpoints in the West Bank and Gaza. Cars honked horns, tearful relatives raised Fatah flags and pictures of Abbas and some carried prisoners on their shoulders.
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"There's nothing better than freedom," said Salem al-Saqqa, about 30, after he reached Gaza and kissed his mother. Al-Saqa had served four years of an 11 year term, and said that Abbas must do everything he can to win the relase of the thousands still imprisoned by Israel.

As buses carrying the prisoners rolled into Abbas' walled compound, relatives jumped up to kiss them. Some prisoners climbed out of windows, impatient to greet their families.

Tearful reunions played out again and again: Prisoners embraced weeping parents, sometimes abashed at their mothers' ululating. Some were hoisted on shoulders.

Abdel Raouf Injas, 52, was waiting for his 31-year-old son Khaled, whose 12-year sentence was cut in half. Injas said he wanted to get Khaled married as quickly as possible, and said his son planned to study for a master's degree at a West Bank university.

Injas said he had two more sons in prison. "I'm feeling good, but it's incomplete," he said of the release. Parents of some prisoners said they were eager to make up for lost time.

Israel decided on the gesture before the Mideast summit held in Annapolis, Maryland last week. The prisoners were scheduled to be released on Sunday, but the move was delayed at the Palestinian Authority's request.

Over the past few days the prisoners have received medical checkups and met with representatives of the Red Cross, the Prisons Service said in a statement. They also signed a declaration committing to refrain from terror activities.

Israel is holding more than 9,000 Palestinian security prisoners, who comprise almost half of all inmates in Israeli jails. Their freedom is a central Palestinian demand, and Monday's release is intended to strengthen Abbas in his struggle against the militant Islamic Hamas. Hamas wrested control of the Gaza Strip from forces loyal to Abbas in June, and remains firmly in control there.

Abbas' government had asked that 2,000 prisoners be freed, but Israel refused. Including the prisoners released on Monday, about 770 Palestinians will have been freed since July, a number the Palestinians find wanting.

On Sunday, imprisoned Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti called Israel's plan to release 429 prisoners "a joke," after members of the Knesset's Internal Affairs and Environment Committee visited him at the Hadarim prison.

In an answer to a question posed by committee chairman MK Ophir Pines-Paz (Labor), Barghouti said that Israel could have easily freed 8,000 Palestinian prisoners and added that the prisoners that are due for release were supposed to be released anyway in a few months.

When asked by MK Moshe Gafni (United Torah Judaism) when the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would end, Barghouti said, "The end of the conflict is very near. We just need a leader with courage to sign [an agreement]."

Barghouti added that if a permanent settlement is reached, Gaza residents would agree to the solution of two states for two peoples.

Barghouti also complained that prisoners have not been given the right to make telephone calls. The complaint was raised again later at a meeting between committee members and Israel Prison Services Commissioner Benny Kaniak, after Pines-Paz asked why it was possible for Yitzhak Rabin's murderer Yigal Amir to carry a cellular phone, while Palestinian prisoners were not even allowed to hold phone conversations.

Kaniak responded that the Israel Prisons Service was the only body fighting to limit Amir's freedoms, and maintained that every extra right given to Amir was made by a legal decision.

On Sunday Prime Minister Ehud Olmert dampened optimism from the Mideast conference, saying Israel does not recognize the 2008 target date as a deadline for peacemaking.

"There is no commitment to a specific timetable regarding these negotiations," Olmert told his Cabinet, adding that before steps are taken, Palestinians must halt militants' attacks against Israel.

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      1.   Israel could have easily freed 8,000 Palestinian prisoners.... 05:34  |  R 03/12/07
      2.   And what does Israel get in return for releasing 05:39  |  Avivah 03/12/07
      3.   how many Shallits in return for the 429 haters? 05:47  |  dav zee 03/12/07
      4.   nice 06:31  |  r.m. 03/12/07
      5.   Pines-Paz - Profile in Courage 06:50  |  Tod Zuckerman 03/12/07
      6.   lies, lies, lies, and more lies 07:09  |  HR activist 03/12/07
      7.   Israel will detain thos 429 in a week 07:10  |  anthony 03/12/07
      8.   Shalit. 07:54  |  Vital 03/12/07
      9.   Release of prisoners 07:59  |  Ros 03/12/07
      10.   42 arrested Sunday night 08:00  |  JW 03/12/07
      11.   Release of Palestinian Criminals 08:09  |  Lagunageno 03/12/07
      12.   r.m., HR & Anthony - Are you convicts too? 08:12  |  Lagunageno 03/12/07
      13.   release of 429 terrorists 09:53  |  Ralph 03/12/07
      14.   AS HAARETZ DIDN`T PUBLISH MY 09:53  |  Robert 03/12/07
      15.   Lagunageno..how could you call them criminals? 09:55  |  Indian 03/12/07
      16.   Incomplete 10:00  |  Maher 03/12/07
      17.   Palestinian police officers shoot and kill Jews. Abbas 10:02  |  Ruti 03/12/07
      18.   no one 10:16  |  r 03/12/07
      19.   ISRAEL AND THE RELEASE OF PRISONERS GAME... 10:23  |  TrippleJump 03/12/07
      20.   FOR EVERY PRISONER RELEASED, 10 MORE ARE KIDNPPED BY ISRAEL 10:24  |  TrippleJump 03/12/07
      21.   Israel holding 5,000 women & children kidnapped at checkpoints 10:26  |  Eric 03/12/07
      22.   Apartheidic Israel using prisoners as pawns in PR excercise 10:27  |  Arthur 03/12/07
      23.   No.1 israel could have freed 8,000 inmates... 10:29  |  Walter 03/12/07
      24.   TRIPPLE JUMP.IF ARABS did not murder the Israelis they capturerd 10:38  |  PETER SM 03/12/07
      25.   MORE WORTHLESS GESTURES 10:56  |  Fargo 03/12/07
      26.   # 3 dav zee IOFs 10:58  |  Dav 03/12/07
      27.   AND THEY CALL THIS A "GOOD" WILL GESTURE 10:59  |  indrajaya 03/12/07
      28.   Israeli military forces kidnapped four 11:06  |  Dav 03/12/07
      29.   TRIPPLEJUMP If PAL`s did not use women and children as homicide 11:07  |  PETER SM 03/12/07
      30.   TRIPPLE JUMP.B`TESLEM is criticised for accepting rubbery figures 11:11  |  PETER SM 03/12/07
      31.   Re: Ruti @ 16. I feel the same as you do regarding 11:13  |  Yochi 03/12/07
      32.   Statistics show that these prisoners will come back to haunt us 11:20  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 03/12/07
      33.   yes HR activist: among them 3 policemen who killed settler 11:22  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 03/12/07
      34.   Indeed a joke. 11:26  |  Ben Alofs 03/12/07
      35.   INDRAJAYAGoodwill fromYOU.Arrest your Kopasus murderers 11:34  |  PETER SM 03/12/07
      36.   THE DAYS OF APARTHEIDIC ISRAEL ARE NUMBERED... 11:39  |  TrippleJump 03/12/07
      37.   MURDEROUS IDF KIDNAP MINORS AND WOMEN AT CHECKPOINTS 11:40  |  TrippleJump 03/12/07
      38.   ITS DISGUSTING - OLMERT IS A DISGRACE 11:48  |  Nicole 03/12/07
      39.   429 people who have been accessory to murder 12:04  |  Roger 03/12/07
      40.   TRIPLE JUMP if IDF murderous why aren`t your martyr wannbees dead 12:14  |  PETER SM 03/12/07
      41.   Palestinian Authority killed Homesh father of 2 12:19  |  dan 03/12/07
      42.   TRIPLE JUMP numbered days as rational as SHOUTING without 12:23  |  PETER SM 03/12/07
      43.   # 39 If you are right 12:31  |  adel 03/12/07
      44.   Yes Ben Alofs like police who murder tell us something too 12:42  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 03/12/07
      45.   @21, erik, 3jump, where is info about 5000women and minors 12:48  |  vladimir 03/12/07
      46.   Murderous Israel give 1 with one hand, & take 100 with the other 12:50  |  Arthur 03/12/07
      47.   Tripple jump makes it up as he goes along, like his spelling 12:51  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 03/12/07
      48.   RELEASE ALL kidnapped women and children NOW 12:51  |  Mark 03/12/07
      49.   Blah Blah Blah 13:40  |  fred 03/12/07
      50.   ARTHUR "Murderous Israelis" you mean the captured are dead? 14:11  |  PETER SM 03/12/07
      51.   WHERE IS THE `GOOD WILL GESTURE` FROM 14:11  |  Nechama 03/12/07
      52.   MARK when Arabs release all Israelis not murdered in captivity 14:17  |  PETER S .M. 03/12/07
      53.   FACTS FROM CONFIRMED SOURCES: READ ABOUT DETAINED MINORS AND MORE 14:22  |  TrippleJump 03/12/07
      54.   good will Gestures 14:27  |  Jo Jo 03/12/07
      55.   overdue to relrase 14:29  |  kad 03/12/07
      56.   Have Palis returned Shalit? Of course not.. 14:30  |  THe Equalizer 03/12/07
      57.   #48 Mark 14:31  |  child advocate 03/12/07
      58.   Peter SM #52 14:35  |  seeking answer 03/12/07
      59.   In return what? 14:47  |  Brod 03/12/07
      60.   What about the KIDNAPPED CHILDREN that Israel keeps HOSTAGE 15:02  |  Jewish Terror 03/12/07
      61.   SOMEDAY, I WILL HURT ZIONIST WORLD 15:12  |  ATİLLA KARAGÖZOĞLU 03/12/07
      62.   Free??? 15:24  |  Joe 03/12/07
      63.   # 53 triplejump 15:25  |  Lynn 03/12/07
      64.   Margie in Tel Aviv 15:31  |  GABE1 03/12/07
      65.   YIGAL AMIR TO CARRY A CELLULAR PHONE? 15:32  |  indrajaya 03/12/07
      66.   Abbas says he is in charge of ALL of the PA ..so where is shalit? 15:39  |  kobi 03/12/07
      67.   Release prisoners, get nothing in return 15:41  |  Gilbert 03/12/07
      68.   # 63, LYNN 15:50  |  indrajaya 03/12/07
      69.   Margie`s "ghost" statistics. 16:15  |  Ibrahim 03/12/07
      70.   So Where is Shallit, Where is the Good Faith Part On The Pals 16:16  |  Kipperraes 03/12/07
      71.   429 Pal. Prisoners Released by Israel 16:32  |  Ricardo Kolbe 03/12/07
      72.   Release of murderers 16:37  |  D 03/12/07
      73.   Olmerts policy of appeasement... 16:47  |  Nemesis 03/12/07
      74.   Tripplejump 17:08  |  Yakov 03/12/07
      75.   Indian # 15 It`s Much More Complicated Than That 17:09  |  Jeff Northridge 03/12/07
      76.   terrorists 17:27  |  Mendy 03/12/07
      77.   Jewish Terror # 60 There Is No Lower Age Limit 17:28  |  Jeff Northridge 03/12/07
      78.   Amazing Double Standard 17:31  |  CHGODMK 03/12/07
      79.   Ibrahim`s `Margie` insult 17:38  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 03/12/07
      80.   #21 Eric - Paris - Prisoner Facts 17:41  |  * BEN JABO 03/12/07
      81.   #71 Ricardo Kolbe Cologne 17:46  |  * BEN JABO 03/12/07
      82.   Ibrahim on arab children 18:13  |  peter 03/12/07
      83.   That`s a pretty BIG world Atilla, not limited to Israel or Jews 18:18  |  VirginiaTheZionist 03/12/07
      84.   tripplejump 18:18  |  Jay 03/12/07
      85.   # 6. Thank you. God bless all freedom fighters 18:21  |  Mike the American 03/12/07
      86.   Palestinian prisoner release 18:21  |  Morris Amsel 03/12/07
      87.   # 8 The 10,000 Palestinian Shalits 18:24  |  Mike the American 03/12/07
      88.   to Indian #1 18:26  |  Jay 03/12/07
      89.   # 68 Thank you. Let us stop the IDF terrorists 18:27  |  Mike the American 03/12/07
      90.   # 72 It is you not Haaretz, RACIST ! 18:30  |  Mike the American 03/12/07
      91.   to Indian 2 18:34  |  Jay 03/12/07
      92.   #32 so called peace maker Margie 18:36  |  Labhras 03/12/07
      93.   to tripplejump and indian, whoever wanted a breakdown 18:42  |  Jay 03/12/07
      94.   #64 Gabe1 and friends--Margie/peter. wow. 18:43  |  Labhras 03/12/07
      95.   Are you Turkish Atilla? 18:45  |  Jay 03/12/07
      96.   Talking to a Dr of Shoah-denial, releasing 429 killers? 18:55  |  What for? 03/12/07
      97.   #79 M in Ta re ibrahim what insult. it is the truth 18:58  |  Labhras 03/12/07
      98.   Kipperraes # 70 CPL Gilad Shalit 19:01  |  Jeff Northridge 03/12/07
      99.   To Mike `the American` all palestinians are innocent 19:11  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 03/12/07
      100.   #85 Mike the American?????? 19:19  |  Tired of the lies 03/12/07
      101.   release 429 Pals` 19:20  |  Dik 03/12/07
      102.   # 88 STOP THE LIES 19:32  |  Mike the American 03/12/07
      103.   # 93 You are making my point, idiot! 19:33  |  Mi 03/12/07
      104.   # 81- 429 Pal. Pris. in gest. to Mr. Abbas 19:34  |  Ricardo Kolbe 03/12/07
      105.   # 93 You are making his point, idiot! 19:36  |  Mike the American 03/12/07
      106.   Israelei terrorists are no different from Palestinians 19:38  |  American in NY 03/12/07
      107.   Mike the American # 85 Freedom Fighters 19:42  |  Jeff Northridge 03/12/07
      108.   # 76 IDF is the mother of all terrorists 19:43  |  Mike the American 03/12/07
      109.   # 82 It is Israle that ruined these children`s life 19:46  |  Mike the American 03/12/07
      110.   # 81 - 429 Pal Prisoners for Mr. Abbas 19:47  |  Ricardo Kolbe 03/12/07
      111.   # 95 Zionism = racism. 19:49  |  Mike the American 03/12/07
      112.   429 "murderers" to be released..... 19:50  |  ljf-canada 03/12/07
      113.   # 81 Who is wrong? 19:52  |  Mike the American 03/12/07
      114.   Mike, #85 19:57  |  Neal 03/12/07
      115.   # 99,107 And how many are `non-comatants`? 20:04  |  Mike the American 03/12/07
      116.   #114 SO WRONG 20:09  |  Mike the American 03/12/07
      117.   SHALIT WAS SOLDIER...BUT ISRAEL KIDNAPPED 5000 WOMEN & CHILDREN 20:12  |  TrippleJump 03/12/07
      118.   #99 Margie the so called olive branch holder 20:13  |  Labhras 03/12/07
      119.   re: anthony 20:17  |  Efox 03/12/07
      120.   Pretty much every Palestinian is an Accomplice to crimes 20:22  |  Efox 03/12/07
      121.   Mike `the American` 20:24  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 03/12/07
      122.   #107 Jeff Northridge re Mike the American 20:26  |  Labhras 03/12/07
      123.   A promising future for terrorists 20:31  |  Tosefta 03/12/07
      124.   # 91 Palestians were/are there forever. 20:32  |  Mike the American 03/12/07
      125.   # 120 You are equal to Hitler ..... 20:57  |  Mike the American 03/12/07
      126.   #121 will never get it ! 21:02  |  Mike the American 03/12/07
      127.   TRIPPLE JUMP.WOMEN & children are Pal front line troops 21:09  |  PETER S.M. 03/12/07
      128.   PAL apology machine desperate.they keep SHOUTING slogans 21:13  |  PETER S.M. 03/12/07
      129.   Mike the American # 102 What Palestinian Land? 21:13  |  Jeff Northridge 03/12/07
      130.   NEXT they will want the Pal police charged with murdering Zoldan 21:17  |  PETER S.M. 03/12/07
      131.   EXPENSIVE color flyers well fed looking prisoners 21:20  |  PETER S.M. 03/12/07
      132.   Labhras, what is up with this Margie creature? 21:32  |  Ibrahim 03/12/07
      133.   #109 Mike the American Fool 21:34  |  peter 03/12/07
      134.   Efox = Hitler 21:35  |  Americn Jew 03/12/07
      135.   The trouble with Israeli terrorists 21:38  |  John 03/12/07
      136.   #121 Min TA re Mike the American 21:38  |  Labhras 03/12/07
      137.   tripple jump brings a tear to my eye 21:38  |  peter 03/12/07
      138.   #113 Mike the American`s brilliance 21:46  |  peter 03/12/07
      139.   #120..Efox 21:46  |  Nemesis 03/12/07
      140.   Labhras # 122 The Key Word Is "Deliberate" 21:47  |  Jeff Northridge 03/12/07
      141.   #123 Tosefta correction 21:57  |  Labhras 03/12/07
      142.   Hate to break it to you, Mike-of-the-many-posts... 22:06  |  Polybios 03/12/07
      143.   American Jew re: Efox 22:17  |  CHGODMK 03/12/07
      144.   Mike the american 22:18  |  Blease 03/12/07
      145.   Labhras SORRY for being BLIND (#138) 22:23  |  Gil 03/12/07
      146.   #87 Mike the American 22:27  |  U BEN JABO 03/12/07
      147.   120 & 139 The Hitler gang 22:28  |  Mike the American 03/12/07
      148.   More one sided justice from the bums in the Israeli establishment 22:30  |  Dutch 03/12/07
      149.   What is this obsession.... 22:30  |  Nemesis 03/12/07
      150.   # 68 Indy ...there are schools in Gaza. 22:32  |  Lynn 03/12/07
      151.   126 Mike the American (I`ll bet) 22:33  |  * BEN JABO 03/12/07
      152.   it is not a nod - it is a spasm - someone call a doctor!!! 22:34  |  mike 03/12/07
      153.   # 95 Jay ...in defense of Atilla 22:35  |  Lynn 03/12/07
      154.   peter # 133 22:36  |  ChanahS 03/12/07
      155.   #120 Golly Efox, you have gone off the far edge? 22:39  |  ballistic 03/12/07
      156.   #140 Jeff Northridge the key words are "Spin Doctor` 22:40  |  Labhras 03/12/07
      157.   L A B H R A S What have U Catholics Achieved fighting the British 22:40  |  Gil 03/12/07
      158.   #140 Say Labhras re "deliberate" 22:44  |  ballistic 03/12/07
      159.   The arrogance of the teflon"Palestinians" 22:45  |  Scharker Yid 03/12/07
      160.   What Israel has done to Palestinian families is criminal 22:47  |  Dutch 03/12/07
      161.   # 102 Mike...you sound like a foolish, hysterical, 23:01  |  Lynn 03/12/07
      162.   # 142 No justification for ISRAELI terrorism! 23:02  |  Mike the American 03/12/07
      163.   133, 138 and 144. You are defeated. 23:05  |  Mike the American 03/12/07
      164.   #34dr ben gets serious let the terrorists go he says 23:09  |  victor hardman 03/12/07
      165.   labarse continues to make afool of himself 23:14  |  victor hardman 03/12/07
      166.   Ibrahim #132 re: Margie 23:19  |  TonyL 03/12/07
      167.   CHGODMK @143 23:19  |  GABE1 03/12/07
      168.   # 129 THE LAND OF PALESTINE 23:23  |  Mike the American 03/12/07
      169.   #132 Ibrahim re Min TA 23:23  |  Labhras 03/12/07
      170.   Every night more are arrested.... 23:28  |  Palestinian Brit 03/12/07
      171.   #128 Peter SM re slogans and blanks 23:29  |  Labhras 03/12/07
      172.   Settlers in our Midst 23:32  |  Palestinian Brit 03/12/07
      173.   Mr Blease.... 23:35  |  Palestinian Brit 03/12/07
      174.   ROUND UP ANOTHER 1000 IN A MONTH 23:37  |  Olaf 03/12/07
      175.   Thanks, and correction (Labhras #141) 23:38  |  Tosefta 03/12/07
      176.   Barghoutti correct, 2 states for 2 peoples 23:38  |  FOX 03/12/07
      177.   To all posters re Jeff of the cranial security Barrier 23:43  |  Labhras 03/12/07
      178.   Overall observations 23:44  |  TonyL 03/12/07
      179.   9000 "security prisoners" 23:48  |  Stephen Connor 03/12/07
      180.   Mike the American # 124 Bull! 23:49  |  Jeff Northridge 03/12/07
      181.   Yawn... end of negotiations 23:50  |  Goldberg 03/12/07
      182.   Polybios 23:54  |  Stephen Connor 03/12/07
      183.   #129 Jeff Northridge re Miks the American 23:55  |  Labhras 03/12/07
      184.   #140 Say Labhras re "deliberate", 2nd try 00:03  |  ballistic 04/12/07
      185.   @53, 3jump, why hamas does not using this propaganda????????????? 00:17  |  vladimir 04/12/07
      186.   Conspiracy theory regarding Slowman 00:56  |  Shahar Ilan 04/12/07
      187.   Talkback always gives me such a laugh 01:03  |  Steve 04/12/07
      188.   Efox and Jewish Critisim 01:16  |  Pink 04/12/07
      189.   Efox - All those Palestinian criminals - a little moral outrage 01:24  |  Stephen Connor 04/12/07
      190.   Thanks, and correction (Labhras #141) 01:41  |  Tosefta 04/12/07
      191.   Conspiracy theory regarding Slowman 01:47  |  Jonathan Lis 04/12/07
      192.   Jeff Northridge#155 02:12  |  Hubal 04/12/07
      193.   # 159 LIAR 02:17  |  Mike the American 04/12/07
      194.   # 180 Wrong again 02:34  |  Mike the American 04/12/07
      195.   LABRAHAS You are misquoting me.The apartheid "wall"in Belfast 02:38  |  PETER S.M. 04/12/07
      196.   Peter re Mike the American 02:41  |  Free Gilad Shalit 04/12/07
      197.   Mike the American # 152 You Missed Jordan 02:51  |  Jeff Northridge 04/12/07
      198.   If Mike is American, I`m Chinese :) Zionism, Mike 03:09  |  Virginia 04/12/07
      199.   ballistic Steve, who do you think you`re fooling? 03:17  |  I mean really 04/12/07
      200.   Mike the American (yeah right) 193 03:19  |  ChanahS 04/12/07
      201.   Mike the American # 193 - again 03:21  |  ChanahS 04/12/07
      202.   Labhras # 177 Don`t Put Words In My Mouth 03:39  |  Jeff Northridge 04/12/07
      203.   #184 ballistic .......who speaks for God 04:10  |  Lynn 04/12/07
      204.   Indian # 15 and Lagunanego # 11 04:20  |  Philippe 04/12/07
      205.   # 163 Mike,,,look around you, 04:22  |  Lynn 04/12/07
      206.   Labhras # 183 IHC vs. ICJ 04:45  |  Jeff Northridge 04/12/07
      207.   # 172 Pal Brit....which makes you just as bad 04:52  |  Lynn 04/12/07
      208.   #38 saUDI NEW pUBLIC reLATIONS MAN 04:53  |  tobia 04/12/07
      209.   Mike the American- genius 04:56  |  peter 04/12/07
      210.   mike the american hiw much moneydid pal make 05:03  |  tobia 04/12/07
      211.   PETER IN MELBOURNE - THERE`S A GOOD QUESTION 05:10  |  Stephen Connor 04/12/07
      212.   FREE GILAD SHALIT - AND CRUSH HAMAS 05:14  |  Stephen Connor 04/12/07
      213.   PHILLIPE - FROM LOS ANGELES 05:25  |  Stephen Connor 04/12/07
      214.   # 198 Zionism = racism 05:33  |  Mike the American 04/12/07
      215.   # 200 Here are the facts about IDF Terrrists 05:53  |  Mike the American 04/12/07
      216.   # 200, 201, 209 and 210 Name calling does not make you right 05:58  |  Mike the American 04/12/07
      217.   S.CONNOR Both sides need to be compensated.Not just the Arabs 06:02  |  PETER S.M. 04/12/07
      218.   # 197 Stop fabricating stuff 06:08  |  Mike the American 04/12/07
      219.   Responses here show why `goodwill gestures` don`t work 06:13  |  Moises 04/12/07
      220.   # 172 You are correct. 207 is racist 06:15  |  Mike the American 04/12/07
      221.   If Pals and Jews were inverted in strength... 06:19  |  Moises 04/12/07
      222.   THE WORLDS SLOWEST CENSOR 06:20  |  Stephen Connor 04/12/07
      223.   SEPHEN CONNOR A question for you 06:29  |  PETER S.M. 04/12/07
      224.   Palestinian Britt - so you don`t have to speculate 06:29  |  Moises 04/12/07
      225.   Eric # 21 08:30  |  Philippe 04/12/07
      226.   Stephen Connor # 213 08:45  |  Philippe 04/12/07
      227.   Stephen Connor # 211 08:49  |  Philippe 04/12/07
      228.   Stephen Connor # 213 Addendum 08:52  |  Philippe 04/12/07
      229.   Stephen Connor # 179 08:55  |  Philippe 04/12/07
      230.   429 pals freed 09:06  |  HM 04/12/07
      231.   Enough goodwill silly Olmert. Nothing without Shalit. 09:07  |  lily 04/12/07
      232.   just exchanges 14:28  |  Dav 04/12/07
      233.   Stephen Connor #182 16:45  |  Polybios 04/12/07
      234.   #184 BULListic aka Fruitcake 17:40  |  * BEN JABO 04/12/07
      235.   Release of Prisoners 18:24  |  Klara beuzieron 09/07/08
      236.   Release of Prisoners 18:24  |  Klara beuzieron 09/07/08
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