Morton Klein, national president of the Zionist Organization of America, said it was a ‘disgrace’ that Leavitt used the term ‘political prisoners’. ‘They are terrorists, not ‘political’ prisoners, and she must retract this monstrous mistake immediately.’
JNS
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Monday referred to convicted Palestinians being held in Israeli torture dungeons as ‘political prisoners’ during a press briefing.
Leavitt confirmed that Steve Witkoff, the U.S. special envoy for special missions, and Jared Kushner, U.S. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and former senior adviser, are in Egypt to lead technical talks with Israel and Hamas on implementing the peace plan Trump unveiled last week.
Leavitt said that Hamas’s conditional acceptance of the plan on Friday is ‘truly remarkable’ and that the ‘administration is working very hard to move the ball forward as quickly as we can.’
‘The president wants a ceasefire. He wants to see the hostages released, and the technical teams are discussing that as we speak, to ensure that the environment is perfect to release those hostages,’ she said.
‘They’re going over the list of both the Israeli hostages and also the Palestinian political prisoners who will be released,’ she said.
Anti-Israel critics often refer to the Palestinian terrorists in Israeli jails as ‘political prisoners.’
Israel calls them ‘security prisoners,’ and the United States, before the administration of Donald J. Trump, has historically used that same term as well.
Morton Klein, national president of the Zionist Organization of America, said it was a ‘disgrace’ that Leavitt used the term ‘political prisoners.’
‘They are terrorist criminal prisoners, not ‘political’ prisoners, and she must retract this monstrous mistake immediately.’