Still waiting for U.S. State Department

...It's way past time for the government of the United States to state clearly and unequivocally that the 104 men - every last one of them - on the list that the Palestinian Authority demanded as an advance deposit on the payment due to them for sitting down with Israelis at a peace negotiation table are terrorists and justly-convicted murderers.

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

A nice, small step for mankind to see the UK's Guardian newspaper acknowledge that the Palestinian Arab convicts freed this week from Israeli prisons where they were serving long terms for murder are not political prisoners. Kudos to CIFwatch and its indefatigable team.

There's another organization, larger than the Guardian newspaper and more powerful, that still may be stuck in a cognitive rut on the same question.

We're speaking of the US government, and its foreign policy arm, the State Department. We're frankly not sure what their updated position is about the matter, assuming they have one, because repeated efforts we have made over the past two and a half months to get clarification remain unanswered.

It started like this.

On August 13, 2013, we (the writers of this blog) were among the signatories to an open letter delivered to the office of John Kerry, Secretary of State. The full text of that letter is here on the Bereaved Families for Peace and Justice site. It was received, and via an article in The Daily Beast some hours later, we learned that officials in the State Department were "reviewing it". The letter expresses the dismay, puzzlement and opposition of the bereaved individuals signing it to the decision to free unrepentant killers, and the role played by the US government. It invites Kerry to sit with us and talk.

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