100s of Palestinian Prisoners To Be Released In Swap For Gilad Shalit

[Kev Bar]

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2011/10/20111011175925656823.html

Hundreds, including lots of big names like Marwan Barghouti, to be released in deal for exchange for Shalit.

http://972mag.com/israel-and-hamas-reached-a-deal-shalit-1000-palestinians-to-be-released/24991/

[C. Flower]

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2011/10/20111011175925656823.html

Hundreds, including lots of big names like Marwan Barghouti, to be released in exchange for Shalit.

http://972mag.com/israel-and-hamas-reached-a-deal-shalit-1000-palestinians-to-be-released/24991/

One up for Hamas, one in the eye for Abbas ?

[Kev Bar]

One up for Hamas, one in the eye for Abbas ?

Indeed. I should have put "to be released" in the thread title.

[C. Flower]

Looks like it.

Also the Egyptians pulling their weight just a little. I doubt that's accidental.

http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/2011/10/11/who-gains-who-loses-in-israel-hamas-prisoner-swap/

[Griska]

One up for Hamas, one in the eye for Abbas ?

Both.
And one in the eye for anyone who intended to use the "we don't negotiate with terrorists" line ever again.

That said, it confirms how many Palestinian lives (1,027), Israel sees as equivalent to one of it's own.

[Lapsedmethodist]

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2011/10/20111011175925656823.html

Hundreds, including lots of big names like Marwan Barghouti, to be released in deal for exchange for Shalit.

http://972mag.com/israel-and-hamas-reached-a-deal-shalit-1000-palestinians-to-be-released/24991/

If they've let Barghouti out there must be talks in the offing.

[Sam Lord]

If they've let Barghouti out there must be talks in the offing.

I thought that talks were off until The Zionists halted their ongoing illegal settlement of Palestinian land. Has that happened yet?

[Binn Beal]

Just how many Palestinians are imprisoned by the Israelis?

[Andrew49]

Marwan Barghouti, a charismatic leader of the Fatah faction serving five life prison terms, and Ahmed Saadat will not be freed, the head of Israel's Shin Bet spy agency said. Top Palestinian leaders in Israeli prisons are not part of a mass prisoner swap agreed with Hamas, Israel's top security official said on Tuesday.

Source (http://www.worldbulletin.net/?aType=haber&ArticleID=80123)

By holding on to Barghouti, Israel is continuing its Divide and Rule game. WIl this cause extra friction between Fatah and Hamas?

[Binn Beal]

Now that the Israelis are negotiating with 'terrorists', we will soon see more soldiers and other Israeli officials being captured.

[Kev Bar]

Shocking amount of human angle coverage from Shalit side, not that his story is not legit but is just one of over 1,000

[Kev Bar]

Marwan Barghouti, a charismatic leader of the Fatah faction serving five life prison terms, and Ahmed Saadat will not be freed, the head of Israel's Shin Bet spy agency said. Top Palestinian leaders in Israeli prisons are not part of a mass prisoner swap agreed with Hamas, Israel's top security official said on Tuesday.

Source (http://www.worldbulletin.net/?aType=haber&ArticleID=80123)

By holding on to Barghouti, Israel is continuing its Divide and Rule game. WIl this cause extra friction between Fatah and Hamas?

It is, of course, possible that Hamas may have consented to his continuing detention.

Just speculating.

[Sam Lord]

Heard on the news earlier that there could be up to 7,000 Palestinian POW's in Israeli jails.

It seemed a shocking figure given the scale of the conflict.

[Kev Bar]

Marwan Barghouti, a charismatic leader of the Fatah faction serving five life prison terms, and Ahmed Saadat will not be freed, the head of Israel's Shin Bet spy agency said. Top Palestinian leaders in Israeli prisons are not part of a mass prisoner swap agreed with Hamas, Israel's top security official said on Tuesday.

Source (http://www.worldbulletin.net/?aType=haber&ArticleID=80123)

By holding on to Barghouti, Israel is continuing its Divide and Rule game. WIl this cause extra friction between Fatah and Hamas?

Looks like others may be speculating along the same lines as myself:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oct/12/gilad-shalit-palestinian-prisoner-swap

And it looks like it may e difficult to pose the question to Hamas.
"Since they are now trying to force journalists and others to obtain "visas" before visiting their Republic of Gaza, we may not know."

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-democratic-governments-dont-deal-with-terrorists-ndash-until-they-do-2369660.html

[Andrew49]

srael has published the names of 477 Palestinian prisoners who are to be released in exchange for captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. Israel's President Shimon Peres has begun the process of pardoning them, his office said. They are set to be freed on Tuesday in the first phase of the deal. A further 550 prisoners are to be released after Sgt Shalit returns home.

Sgt Shalit was seized by Palestinian militants in 2006, aged 19.

Source (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-15325046)

Egypt will free jailed American- Israeli law student Ilan Grapel shortly after the completion of the Hamas-Israel prisoner swap that will see the release of Gilad Schalit, Egyptian newspaper Al Ahram reported on Sunday. According to the report, Israel is expected to release 81 Egyptian prisoners. Grapel's release will be made possible by Israel's apology for the death of Egyptian soldiers on its border two months ago, Egyptian mediation in the Schalit deal as well as the release of Israel's Egyptian prisoners.