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Palestinian prisoner - Ilan Assayag - 17102011
IDF arrests Palestinian prisoner released in Shalit swap

Mamun Ismyail Salame Stut's arrest makes him the first released prisoner to be recaptured since the prisoner swap; according to an IDF spokesperson, Stut was arrested for being a security threat.

by Gili Cohen 43 comments
Mahmoud Abbas - AP - 30122011
Abbas' disheartening European voyage

Abbas says he is prepared to continue in the track of the talks in Jordan even after January 26, and he in fact wants this very much, but for this to happen Israel also has to do its bit.

by Barak Ravid 7 comments
Gilad Shalit on phone to family - IDF spokesman - October 18 2011
Hamas official: Shalit was not beaten while in captivity

Shalit allowed to watch television and listen to radio, and at times would even talk and 'laugh' with his captors, a senior member of the radical Islamist movement's Damascus-based leadership in exile told Israel Radio.

by DPA 0 comments
Ilan Grapel Tahrir
Israel cabinet set to approve Grapel prisoner exchange deal

News comes after Israeli negotiation team updates suspected Israeli spy on his upcoming release from Egyptian prison, where he has been held since June 12.

by Barak Ravid 8 comments
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The IDF, now part of Mahmoud Abbas' fan club

Our chief of staff is demonstrating that in addition to his do-nothing policy in the realm of operations, he is weak and lacking in leadership even when the army is being politicized right under his nose.

by Israel Harel 13 comments
Israel's post-deliverance depression

This post-partum depression leads to possible solutions that the government - and mainly Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, known to be attentive to the people's hearts - will invent in their fevered brains to find us some new occupation that will unite us as a nation.

by Neri Livneh 0 comments
We have mutual responsibility in the economy, too

It's possible to say that we need to raise the tax burden on the rich, as the Trajtenberg Committee has recommended. But it's not possible to claim that the state has abandoned its citizens and tramples the weak. That's simply a lie.

by Nehemia Shtrasler 0 comments
Netanyahu, Knesset, Shalit swap
Despite Shalit release, Netanyahu not yet a leader

Bibi did not break. He cut a coupon to strengthen his political and personal status. It's a lot easier for him to release Shalit than to give up on territories for the sake of a peace agreement.

by Yoel Marcus 5 comments
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