'Palestinian' terrorist freed by Israel murdered American
Mustafa was sentenced by an Israeli military court to life after he and two other assailants murdered Rosenfeld in 1989, 21 years after the former Marine emigrated to Israel. According to an Associated Press account of Mustafa’s trial before a military court, Mustafa and two others met Rosenfeld as he was hiking near the settlement where he lived in Ariel.At first, the three men befriended Rosenfeld and even posed for a photo. “Minutes after the picture was taken, the three stabbed Rosenfeld and left him for dead, according to their confession,” the AP dispatch said.
Today Mustafa is a free man, one of 26 Palestinians released from Israeli jails on Tuesday, the first group of a total of 104 prisoners Israel has promised to free in exchange for Palestinian participation in a new peace process. The list of prisoners was negotiated with the Palestinian Authority, at the urging of Secretary Kerry.
Marie Harf, deputy spokesperson for the State Department, told the Daily Beast Thursday, “The State Department conveyed the administration’s concerns regarding the release of this prisoner to the government of Israel, while recognizing the victim was a dual national of Israel and the United States.”
As you all know, I believe that Israel has to take responsibility for this release, but with all due respect, and especially given that the US encouraged Israel to release terrorists, what right do they have to complain that Israel released someone who murdered an American?Harf said the Israeli side “acknowledged our views, but it was ultimately their decision to determine which prisoners to release. This is a very difficult situation for all involved, and further highlights the importance of making these negotiations successful.”
“As I understand the facts, there are only two possibilities,” said Elliott Abrams, a deputy national security adviser in the George W. Bush administration and a scholar at the Council on Foreign Relations. “It was a very bad screwup by the State Department not to demand that he remain incarcerated or it is a silent change of policy. I believe the policy has always been that we oppose the release of anyone who has committed terrorism against Americans.”
Abrams pointed to U.S. public statements in 2005 after Germany freed the man convicted of killing Mohammed Ali Hammadi, a member of Hezbollah who participated in the murder of U.S. Navy diver Robert Stethem during the 1985 hijacking of TWA Flight 847. When Hammadi was released in 2005, a State Department spokesman said, “We’re going to make every effort to see that he stands trial in the United States for what he did and face justice.”
Yes, but in the crooked world of the State Department, it's okay to demand that Israel - and only Israel - free terrorists. It's not okay to make that demand of Germany or Italy or any other country.Hammadi remains at large.
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posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 3:44 PM
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Last count the al Aqsa war claimed the lives of more than 50 US citizens. The US government has never uttered so much as a peep and has worked tirelessly to defeat Koby's Law and other similar legistlation. The fact is, the US government considers anyone in Israel a legitimate target and will never help or speak out unless it's to pout and scream for Israel to release their killers from prison. And lest we ignore that Arafat personally executed American diplomats and was feted with an official White House visit.
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