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To: William B. Kohn who wrote (14170)	4/28/2002 11:04:59 AM
From: Tadsamillionaire	Respond to of 23908

Hezbollah chief offers new Israeli swap BEIRUT, Lebanon, April 28 (UPI) -- A Hezbollah chief Sunday proposed to release Israeli prisoners held by his group in exchange for freedom for four Palestinians accused of killing an Israeli tourism minister and those besieged at the Church of Nativity in Bethlemen. Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah said in a statement that his Lebanese militant Hezbollah group was ready for immediate negotiations. The group has made such an offer before in similar circumstances without triggering any negotiations. "Due to the dangers surrounding the four accused Palestinians and those besieged (at the Nativity Church), Hezbollah is ready to negotiate immediately over this issue in return for releasing those who would be agreed upon from among the Israeli prisoners held by Hezbollah," Nasrallah said. He was referring to some 200 Palestinians inside the Church of Nativity and four others held inside the Israeli-besieged compound of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in the West Bank city of Ramallah. Those four were sentenced days ago in absentia to between one and 18 years in prison for killing Israeli Tourism Minister Rahbaam Ze'vi. This was Nasrallah's second initiative to swap his Israeli captives with Palestinians. Earlier this month, he proposed to free what he described as an Israeli Mossad agent in return for lifting the Israeli siege on more than 100 Palestinians in the West Bank camp of Jenin. In October 2000, Hezbollah guerrillas captured three Israeli soldiers in the disputed area of the Shabaa farms on the Lebanese-Israeli border. A week later, Nasrallah announced the capture of the Mossad agent after being lured from Europe into Beirut and proposed to exchange the four Israelis for 17 Lebanese and a number of Palestinian and Arab detainees still held in Israeli jails. Israel said the alleged Israeli agent was a simple businessmen and that it had evidence the three soldiers were already dead. German and other mediators have so far failed secure any swap between Hezbollah and Israel. washingtontimes.com