Israel must release up to 50 Palestinian prisoners, many serving life terms for terrorist killings, for each Israeli hostage released in deal with Hamas.
One of the bitter pills Israelis must swallow in the freeing of the hostages held by Hamas is having to release terrorists guilty of many serious crimes, from leading terrorist attacks to dispatching suicide bombers and committing murder.
Zakaria Zubeidi headed the Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades during the Second Intifada, the Palestinian uprising that began after Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat rejected the two-state solution offered by U.S. President Bill Clinton and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak in 2000. Zubeidi organized dozens of attacks, including one on a Likud political party office in 2002 in Beit Shean that killed six Israelis.
Ahmed Barghouti, a senior military official in the Fatah terrorist organization, was serving 13 life sentences for terror attacks that…
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