Knesset Passes Law to Re-arrest Released Palestinians

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The "Israeli" Knesset passed Tuesday a so-called law that allows the Zionist entity to re-arrest Palestinian prisoners .

The "legislation" proposed by Knesset Foreign Affairs and Military Committee chairman Ze'ev Elkin would also have "the government make the final decision on prisoner releases and not have the president pardon "terrorists"."

"This is a way to deal with the threat of kidnappings," Elkin said. "The bill is meant to create a deterrent for kidnappers, who will know that instead of releasing "terrorists" [by using captives as a negotiating tool] they are doing the opposite and putting "terrorists" in jail."

According to Elkin, his proposal has support in the coalition and opposition - it was signed by MKs in Labor, Bayit Yehudi, Hatnua, Shas, UTJ and Yesh Atid - because it is logical for the government to be able to put "terrorists" back in prison if the circumstances under which they were released change.

"If we would have [passed a law like this] years ago, we may have had fewer kidnapping attempts," the Likud MK claimed.
Meretz MK Nitzan Horowitz, however, said that the bill is meant to sabotage future diplomatic negotiations and will prevent prisoner exchanges to free "Israeli" captives.

"We know that prisoners will be part of any future agreement [with the Palestinians]," Horowitz said. "Under these conditions no one will sign any agreement with "Israel"...If this law had existed, it would have been very difficult to free Gilad Schalit."

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