Report: Israel to release prisoners for Gilad Shalit

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Is Israel ready for prisoner exchange? The London-based al-Hayat newspaper reported Friday morning that Israel was willing to release prisoners from it jails in exchange for abducted IDF soldier Gilad Shalit.

Al-Hayat reported that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Shin Bet head Yuval Diskin met in Jordan, where Diskin promised to release large number of Palestinian prisoners, including prisoners "with blood on their hands," directly responsible for Israeli deaths.

Following the meeting, Abbas promised Hamas that "a large number of prisoners" would be released from Israeli jails.

Palestinian sources told al-Hayat that during the Jordan meeting that Diskin said the release of Palestinian prisoners would take place after a summit meeting between Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.

Ynet

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[Ian David]

4. I agree. Neither side is blameless.No innocent deaths should be celebrated

[MercutioATC]

3. Oh, give it a rest...

Nobody's celebrating the killing of Jews any more than anybody is celebrating the deaths of our troops in Iraq.

There's concern (and anger) that Israel escalated the kidnapping of two of its soldiers into a wholesale shelling of Lebanon...much as there's concern (and anger) that we have been abysmally shortsighted in Iraq.

In neither case is anybody happy about the resultant deaths.

[Ian David]

5. It's not just about the two soldiers. It's about the rocket attacks...

aimed at civilian population centers.

Rocket attacks launched from territory that the evil, Zionist Occupier ceded to the Palestinians in the inrerests of peace.

[Howardx]

6. they need the troops for lebanon

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7. FWIW:

I'd take this as "unconfirmed" for the present. If true it would be big news, which is why I put it up.

I doubt Ynet is celebrating anything here, just reporting on what it heard elsewhere.