Abu Mazen meets Kuntar

Elan writes: Peace Partner meets with murderer, Israel criticizes it as "mistake"

Only my friend Elan would bother to read the entirety of yesterday's (NYT) report: Olmert Turmoil Slows Mideast Peace Effort. Here's the nugget he found buried in the next-to-last and final paragraphs:

Also on Sunday, Israel expressed displeasure with Mr. Abbas over his meeting in Beirut last week with Samir Kuntar, a Lebanese who was held for nearly three decades in Israel after being convicted in a deadly and notorious terrorist attack. He was exchanged with four other Lebanese prisoners for the remains of two Israeli soldiers in July.

“We thought the meeting with Kuntar was a mistake, and we were highly critical of it,” Mr. Regev said.

According to Arutz Sheva, Olmert reportedly said to Abu Mazen at yesterday's meeting, "You are not supposed to meet murderers."

No time to comment.... I'm marching in a Labor Day PARADE! ..... more later. Yael