Israel works to prevent PA execution of 50 collaborators

[drdon326]

Israel has gone to great lengths to prevent the Palestinian Authority from executing approximately 50 Palestinians convicted of collaborating with Israel. Along with its appeal to senior PA officials, Israel approached U.S. Ambassador Dan Kurtzer on the matter, and went ahead with the release of Palestinian security prisoners last Thursday only after the PA said it did not intend to carry out the sentences.

Three months ago, PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) authorized the execution of the 50, who had been convicted of aiding Israeli security forces. Shortly thereafter, the head of the PA military tribunals, Saib al-Kidwa, said that 15 of the convicted men would be executed in the following weeks, after their sentences had been vetted by the senior religious authority in the PA, Sheikh Akrima Sabri.

At that point, Justice Minister Tzipi Livni and Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's advisor Dov Weissglas approached various PA officials, including PA Prisoner Affairs Minister Sufyan Abu Zaydeh and the chief of PLO negotiations. Livni and Weissglas said Israel would not accept executions for collaboration, whether or not the condemned actually worked with Israel.

At a meeting of the joint commission on prisoners on May 8, Israel told PA officials it would not go ahead with the planned release of 400 security Palestinian prisoners if the PA carried out the executions.

In response to a High Court petition by former prisoner of Zion Ida Nudel that Israel do everything in its power to prevent the executions, the State Prosecutor's Office told the court that Kurtzer had told Sharon the PA said it didn't intend to carry out the sentences.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/584272.html

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Who is trying to save palestinian lives ?

Was this some kangaroo court ?

And suddenly they have courts for so-called "COLLABORATORS" BUT cant arrest one terrorist ?

[Coastie for Truth]

1. I am sure sone self proclaimed Liberals

will say that Israel is interfering in Palestinian internal affairs.

Do the names Julius and Ethel Rosenberg ring a bell?

[Jim Sagle]

2. Actually....no. But hey, you knew that.

;)

[drdon326]

3. Just amazing that ......

these 50 so-called Collaborators are probably going to be killed by their own people under the guise of capital punishment.

And I have posted mulpitle stories how they are usually kangaroo courts where the defendant is rail-roaded like freight train.

No wonder many palestinians are scared shitless about living under PA( or should I say , hamas ) control.

[Scurrilous]

5. Settlers ask PA for asylum

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3095217,00.html

Group of West Bank residents ask Mahmoud Abbas for political asylum, say prepared to accept Palestinian sovereignty

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"A group of settlers from three northern West Bank settlements slated for evacuation in August in the framework of the pullout plan have applied for political asylum from the Palestinian Authority.

"If the State of Israel doesn't want us," said 28-year-old Drori Shtoan, a member of the group, "then we don’t want it either."

Shtoan's parents were among the founders of the Kadim settlement, and he has no intention of leaving the town he grew up in without a fight.

"We have every intention of continuing to live here in the Shomron (the Samaria region of the West Bank), under Palestinian jurisdiction and not under Israeli rule," he said."

<snip>

"We're not afraid, and I expect it will be good, and secure, for us here, just like Jews live in other places," he said."

[Jim Sagle]

4. The I/P folder sure blows hot 'n' cold now, don't it?

When it's hot, it's hot.

And when it's not, it's not. :shrug:

[soda]

6. PA said it didn't intend to carry out the sentences.

now am confused in your quote it says twice that PA said it didn't intend to carry out the sentences.
has any thing changed from that promise?