Jesse Jackson tries to arrange prisoner swap

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http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14366661/

WASHINGTON - Trying to build on a cease-fire in Lebanon, civil rights leader Jesse Jackson launched an effort Tuesday to arrange the release of prisoners held by Hezbollah and Israel.

“The cease-fire is a step in the right direction,” Jackson said after talking to the Israeli and Syrian ambassadors here. “Release of prisoners would reinforce the positive direction.”

Jackson, an experienced go-between, has brought Americans home from Syria, Cuba, Iraq and Yugoslavia. And, he said in an interview, “in each instance we had a no-talk policy in that country.”

The cease-fire resolution approved unanimously last week by the U.N. Security Council did not demand that Hezbollah release two Israeli soldiers whose abduction touched off the 34-day conflict. Nor did it demand Israel release Arab prisoners. But in the preamble to the resolution, the council said the situation should be addressed urgently.

Jackson began his effort with a telephone conversation with Daniel Ayalon, the Israeli ambassador, appealing to his government to consider “some exchange of prisoners” as a goodwill gesture “if there is movement on the two abducted Israelis,” Jackson said.

[Webster Green]

1. That would really piss off the war-chimp...

That is not in the war-chimp's plans at all.

The war-chimp needs chaos to complete the genocide and colonization.

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2. Blessed are the peacemakers. n/t