Olmert to release Palestinian prisoners

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After their meeting on Saturday in Olmert’s residence at Jerusalem, the Israeli prime minister and leader of the Palestinian authority Mahmoud Abbas, came to agree on three main decisions as follows: the relaunching of peace and diplomatic discuss, an Israeli financial aid which value is about $100 million and the release of Palestinian convicts.

 

This last decision was taken by Ehud Olmert who said that “it’s about time Israel show flexibility and generosity”, he told his homologue he might release an important number of Palestinian inmates in the coming days, as to show a sign of an obvious cooperation and good will to the international community after slaughtering more than 1300 Lebanese, during the war summer where most of victims were civilians.

 Olmert and Abbas would like to mark major changes in the Middle East policy based on understanding and peaceful means of dialogue. Palestinian militants captured an Israeli officer last June and asked the Israeli government to liberate Palestinian prisoners if they want to get their inmates alive. Olmert’s statements were surprising and came after his meeting where Israel showed a series of concessions; the main one was to include an offer to lift some west-bank check points.
 But will this meeting improve the issue and resolve the crisis of the Palestinian split? Especially now while Abbas is getting closer to the “enemy”!

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