“Bibi, who knows the PA and its leaders quite well, will be able, when all is said and done, to expose Abu Mazen to be no different than Arafat was at Camp David in the summer of 2000: A dishonest, double talking, Mufti-like leader [referring to the Mufti of Jerusalem who collaborated with the Nazis] who when push comes to shove is incapable of recognizing Israel’s right to exist as a sovereign state, and her right to live in secure borders. In essence he will call Abu Mazen’s bluff and show that Israel really has no one to talk to.”

“Israel may bring up at these negotiations that there are already two states: Israel and Hamasistan in Gaza. Are we negotiating to set up a third state?” asked Eliach. “Why will this state be any different than Hamasistan in Gaza? Being that the media is following these talks, this point will finally be made to the entire Western World! This would be eye opening and cause many people to stop and reassess the entire Peace Process.”

Eliach expects that “Israel may also use the forum of the negotiations to lay to rest the absurd notion that the Palestinian issue is the linchpin to all Middle East problems. Hence stop giving it so much attention and credence!”

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Friends Ronen Karmani and Lior Tubol went missing in Israel in 1990. Their bloated bodies were found days later, bound, gagged and stabbed repeatedly. Their murderers killed two others and were convicted, receiving a sentence of four life sentences plus 20 years.

“How is it possible?” demanded Mazal Karmani, mother of Ronen. “How could a person, a judge, whoever’s freeing them, free such monsters? They’ll come back and do more and more things like this in our country, they’ll kidnap soldiers, they’ll lynch people, they will destroy more and more families.”

The list includes Palestinians from Ramallah and Jericho, arrested in October 1988 for throwing a Molotov cocktail at an Egged bus that then burst into flames killing Rachel Weiss and three of her young children. Israeli soldier David Delarosa also died in the bombing when he attempted to save the family.