Hamas claimed a to have made a breakthrough in the Israeli position regarding two jailed arch-terrorists: Marwan Barghouti and Ahmed Saadat. The implication is that the Israeli government has agreed to release and deport them.
Iran objects to deportation because it wants Barghouti in the West Bank to replace moderate Abbas. But failure to make the exchange would harm the electoral prospects of Gaza’s Hamas leaders, who therefore traveled to Syria to convince Mashaal, the Iranian puppet, to accept deportation.
Israel, as always, allowed Hamas leaders safe passage from Gaza to Egypt instead of killing them at the border and thus solving the Shalit problem.
