Haaretz: "On Sunday, the [Israeli] cabinet overwhelmingly voted in favor of a prisoner exchange with the Lebanon-based guerilla group Hezbollah in which two kidnapped Israel Defense Forces reservists presumed dead, Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser, would be returned in exchange for five Lebanese fighters including notorious terrorist Samir Kuntar. Olmert said Monday that he believed there was a possibility that the government's move to begin the process of declaring the abducted soldiers dead, spurred Hezbollah to consummate the deal more quickly."

Posted by Laura at June 30, 2008 11:38 AM