[Dr. Aaron Lerner - IMRA: This item is being distributed again on 2
December as IDF and Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) revealed Sunday night
that Palestinian policemen were behind the shooting attack last week which
killed Ido Zoldan, a 29 year-old father of two from the settlement of Shavei
Shomron.

The attitude of the "moderate" PA towards the murder of Israelis is not
empty rhetoric which can be ignored because it is inconvenient. The
rhetoric is anything but empty, as the family of Ido Zoldan learned in the
hardest way possible.]

PA Official to IMRA: Killing Israelis is resistance to occupation - not
peace process, Palestinians who kill Israelis should not be imprisoned

Dr. Aaron Lerner Date: 27 November 2007

Question to Mr. Saleh Nazal, Director, Minister's Office - Ministry of
Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs in English): I wanted to understand the
Palestinians position demanding the release of all Palestinian prisoners by
the time of the signing of an agreement. Would this also apply to
Palestinians arrested for activities they carried out after Annapolis -
during the negotiation period until the signing.

Would those people also, by the Palestinian view, have to be released by the
time of the signing or would they have a different status?

Nazal: You are talking about people detained for resistance operations that
take place during the negotiations between Abu Mazen and Mr. Olmert - right?

IMRA: Yes.

Nazal: It is the position of the Ministry that all prisoners should be
released during this process. They are engaged in resistance against the
Israeli occupation - not against the peace process.

We want all the prisoners to be released because the reason that they were
retained was resistance to the occupation.

IMRA: So that is to say that people detained for activities they carry out
between Annapolis and the signing of an agreement should also qualify for
release at the time of an agreement.

Nazal: As I told you before. This is resistance against the occupation.
Not resistance against the negotiations.

The Israeli forces are arresting people, building settlements, building
barriers. You are looking only now at one party and not looking at the
other one.

Dr. Aaron Lerner, Director IMRA (Independent Media Review & Analysis)
(Mail POB 982 Kfar Sava)
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