French President Nicolas Sarkozy has asked Chacham Ovadia Yosef SHlita to agree to the early release of a Palestinian holder of French citizenship who planned his assassination, Ynet reports.
On Sunday, French Ambassador to Israel Christophe Bigot met with Chacham Ovadia who is expected to give Bigot a letter announcing his consent for the release of the Palestinian prisoner Salah Hamouri, a French national who was convicted of planning to assassinate Chacham Ovadia.
In 2009, Sarkozy asked Netanyahu to free Salah Hamouri, who was convicted in 2005 and subsequently jailed in Israel, as a “goodwill gesture.”
Shortly thereafter, the French foreign minister announced that Paris was demanding Hamouri’s early release in any future deal for the release of Gilad Shalit. France has reiterated its demand ahead of the execution of the second phase of the Shalit deal.
Sarkozy has asked Netanyahu to include Hamouri in the list of 550 Palestinian prisoners that Israel has pledged to release. As part of the second phase, Israel is able to choose the inmates it will release. The French president noted that Hamouri’s term is set to end within four months but Netanyahu replied that he needed Rabbi Yosef’s consent to allow the move.
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Well I guess there seconding guessing this decision, I don’t get it, but when a chochum says or does something you go along with it. Das Torah is the final say.
Inject him with something so he could die a painful death AFTER he’s released.
So the Arab would be assassin will go free. . .
Does that mean that the Jewish assassin that badly hurt Rabbi Levi Bistrisk and planned to also do away with Chacham Yosef also goes free?
Let the French have him. They deserve each other and we will not have to pay for his upkeep.
All of this humanitarian concern for 550 terrorists. Meanwhile, Jonathan Pollard remains behind bars. I guess the audacity of hope can’t press that reset button.