Internal Affairs Committee chair urges PM not to release ”Arab or Jewish security prisoners”

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Knesset Press Release March 27th, 2014 MK Miri Regev (Likud-Yisrael Beitenu), chairwoman of the Knesset Internal Affairs and Environment Committee, said all the members of the committee who were present during a special session on the release of security prisoners Wednesday ”call on the prime minister (Benjamin Netanyahu) not to release Arab or Jewish security prisoners.” The committee members who took part in the meeting, apart from Regev, were MKs Moshe Zalman Feiglin (Likud-Yisrael Beitenu) and David Tsur (Hatenua). MK Regev added that the release of Jonathan Pollard should not be conditioned on the release of terrorists by the Israeli government as a gesture to the Palestinian Authority. ”Should the Israeli government decided to release murderers after all, then the right thing to do would be to release Jewish murderers whose murders were (nationalistically-motivated),” Regev said. ”Also, the US should release Jonathan Pollard. I call on the prime minister not to release security prisoners as a gesture to Abu Mazen (Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas), who has long since stopped being a partner for peace.” Regev accused the Prime Minister`s Office of disrespecting the Knesset by sending a representative to the meeting who did not address the issue of prisoners` release.