It’s the umpteenth time Abbas says Shalit will be released

Posted on 04/06/2007 by Meryl Yourish

No, wait, it’s the umpteenth time that Abbas or Hamas has said Shalit will be released. Either way, I’m not buying it.

Abducted Israel Defense Forces soldier Gilad Shalit will be released soon, Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas said in a television interview on Friday.

“We are undertaking efforts to free Shalit and these efforts will soon come to fruition,” Abbas told France 24 television of Corporal Gilad Shalit, who was seized last June in a cross-border raid from Gaza into southern Israel. “We are optimistic.”

“He will be freed soon,” Abbas said in comments due to be broadcast Friday evening.

Uh-huh. And the Easter Bunny will be delivering chocolate-covered matzohs to Ehud Olmert this Sunday, too.

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3 Responses to It’s the umpteenth time Abbas says Shalit will be released

  1. Paul says:
    04/07/2007 at 8:18 am

    Abbas speaks with a forked tongue. However, I pray for Gilad Shalit’s safe return.

  2. Bob says:
    04/07/2007 at 11:04 am

    But the discharge would be binding on Olmert. (I speak of the chocolate matzos, of course.)

  3. Ben F says:
    04/08/2007 at 6:22 pm

    Have no fear; Shalit will be released. Olmert will pay the tribute that the terrorists demand, and more Israelis will die as a result, but Olmert will be able to crow about his success, building on his triumphant conduct of the war with Hizb’Allah.

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