I dont understand the logic of this, if you are going to release murderers at least demand the release of Gilad Shalit - why are you giving in - in fact what happened to the death sentence - anyone who takes any ones life should not be released ever. Stop being such cowards and tell the arab mks and arab leaders to go to hell - if you are going to release arab murderers release jewish ones as well. The govt never stood up for Jonathan Pollard - time to take stock of the mess you are making

As apoefessor of Law at a major Law School, I found no legal foundation for the release of criminals who commited a premidated and barbaric crime. Peres should use his influence with his Palistinian cohorts to release Noam Shalit rather than win the release of heinous child killers. In the USA, these killers would never see the light of day.

Peresis the one that should be behind bars.He was responsible for bringing back Arafat and his gang from Tunis that makes him responsible for the interfada and the deathsand injuries to thousands of civilins. HE HAS BLOOD ON HIS HANDS

If you were a regular here you would realise that majority were against it. I live here and can honestly say 90% of israel citizens are against Peres being elected! The support you saw was not from the regular talkbackers, but by people from the left that i suspect are intentionally sent into the medias forums to spread propaganda. Most here knows that Peres has blood on his hands by establishing Arafat behind everyones back!

With the 'leadership' of Peres and Olmert, the continued existance of Israel is in doubt. Why should the IDF 'fight the good fight' if the leadership is giving away the country. The Arabs are laughing at our leaders. They have gotten so much from Israel at no cost to themselves. The north is petrified of another war, the Golan is itching to explode, the WB is seething with infiltrating hamas murderers, the south is armed to the teeth thanks to Egypt's worthless 'efforts' to stop arms smuggling, and pretty soon school children in Sderot will be rocket fodder. Either the IDF will shortly explode with an intensity not seen since '67 and erase the scumbag terrorists from the face of the earth, or Israel is doomed to dhimmitude at the hands of its elected leadership.

Releaseing Murderers What is his Motivation? How can he give the PA everything and never say no Why?? http://ralphsrant1.blogspot.com/

The Olmert /Peres era will one day be looked back on with shame in Israel and the people who voted for the anti Israel pro arab double act will ask themselves how could we have been so wrong. Allready he has been abusing the role of president and been getting heavily involved in politcs when the Israeli president is a cerimonial role his job is to kiss babies not be a politician. He has asked for laws to be changed so he can stay involved in certain comitees, as president ellect along with Olmert he snubbed the 1 year memorial service for the soilders killed in Lebanon. The man doesnt like presidential duties but he loves to do everything a president shouldnt unless its abusing his official powers for politcal purposes.

Don't be naive. Money.

I'm flabbergasted with Peres' decision to allow the release of these confessed brutal murderers. I cannot understand this leniency. How can Avigdor Feldman represent them ? I guess he doesn' t have much of a conscience.

Well done, you have redefined stupid, thoughtless and insensitive and you have given them a whole new meaning. Is this what you have waited for? is this what you have been longing for all your political life? To be President of Israel and pardon murderers of young innocent Israelis? You, an elder statesman who has lived and breathed Israel since its birth, you who have grown and lived in the hardest of times while we fought for survival. I'm stunned quite frankly. What can you possibly gain from doing this? Don't forget to kiss Taleb el_Sana's ass and give in to all his demands as well, particularly the pardon of a rapist and murderer of a 16 year old girl. Get Moshe Katsav back! he seems like an angel compared to you. Go home you stupid man.

Perhaps Peres also pardoned him and gave him a new identity to live out his life on a ranch in Argentina.

Mr. Peres is quickly shaping up as the most horrible President in the history of the State of Israel. Wasn't it obvious that this would happen?

WHY IS EVERY ISRALI MK PRESIDENT OR PM AN IDIOT?????

Arrest this traitor along with Olmert and other scum, cancel Oslo Accords, take over the territories, and start putting the house in order.

Why is Mr "zero % in the polls" Olmert still PM? Why is the architect of the Lebanon surrender now Defence Minister? Has Israel become a banana republic?

His actions have to call into question his "yichus" as a Jew. Does anyone really know his origin. I wonder what his DNA would reveal!

If not officially, then by a citizens committee

Watching him on TV, one can easily see the doroling old man for who he is. But Israel is now run by imbeciles who do the work of the enemy day and night.

Hevron activists Baruch Marzel and Itamar Ben-Gvir have asked Attorney General Menachem Mazuz to investigate the motives behind President Shimon Peres's decision to reduce the prison sentences of five Arab murderers. "There is a genuine suspicion that Peres made this decision in exchange for the votes of Arab MKs during the Knesset's Presidential election earlier this summer," Marzel and Ben-Gvir explained. They also threatened to file an appeal with the Supreme Court if their letter is ignored. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/123527 What remains to be seen is whether the Attorney General and the Court would be of any help in this case, considering where their sympathies lie.

Freedom for Amir's brothers and jail for Shimon Peres! The world is an backwards!

MK Taleb el-Sana (United Arab List – Ta'al), who in his last meeting with Peres urged him to reduce the five's sentence, ..."also said he was pleased with the decision." What meeting last month -- about WHAT, FOR WHAT? Every decision Olmert and Peres makes is a benefit to the Arabs. They want to erase the Jewish face of Israel. A dead Jew...so what? Justice, what justice?

With this kind of leadership, it will be no shock that Israel does falter. The tuchus lechering done by the administration to the terrorists who reside within and in the surrounding countries is a recipe for disaster. If Israel has any sedition/treason laws on its books, Peres, Olmert, etc. should be arrested and tried for these actions. They will destroy Israel's right to exist within the world. And the world just won't care. Please Israel WAKE UP.