Does Washington see the killers as freedom fighters or as terrorists?

...We want to know why the government of the United States is still unable to say whether it sees the murderers whom it demands be freed by Israel are "freedom fighters" and "political prisoners". It's outrageous that, despite the lawful convictions that put them behind bars, despite the legitimate and considered sentences that would mean most of them will never get out of prison, the State Department of the United States of America is unable to answer simple questions about how they are viewed from Washington.

Frimet/Arnold Roth..
This Ongoing War..
17 November '13..

Here in Israel, there's little doubt in the wake of the stunningly ineffective US strategy concerning Iran and its nuclear weaponization offensive that our country has much about which to worry from the plans being hatched in the State Department and the White House.

For this reason, and following the revelations that we posted here on Friday, we feel many of our readers will want to take another - perhaps closer - look at aspects of the US government's management of one particular issue: the relentless US pressure on Israel to release from its prisons more than a hundred convicted Palestinian Arab killers.

From where we are, we see this as a kind of microcosm of how the current US leadership views Israel and the Israeli public.

Under the title "Memo to Secretary of State Kerry: Your staff need some urgent guidance", we published here on this blog, on September 14, 2013, an open letter addressed to Secretary of State John Kerry. It was timed to reach him on the eve of a visit he made to Jerusalem that week. Writing in the name of Bereaved Families for Peace and Justice, a group in which we are active, we asked him to make time for an urgent meeting with us. The matters we wanted to discuss had been laid out in an earlier letter we delivered to him two months before that [it's here].

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