Israeli Accused of Killing 4 Palestinians Released from Prison

Wednesday August 11, 2010 18:57 by Saed Bannoura - IMEMC News

An Israeli man suspecting of killing four Palestinians in 1998 was released from Israeli prison today and put under house arrest, due to an apparent lack of evidence.

Chaim Pearlman was charged with killing and wounding Palestinians in the West Bank and Jerusalem in a number of incidents. Two of the incidents involved stabbing Palestinians in the West Bank, while others involved shooting and wounding Palestinian civilians.

He had publicly spoken about the need to kill Arabs to achieve the objectives of the Jewish state, and was known to be in the area of a number of shootings. Pearlman is a known member of the banned 'Kach' movement, which is classified as a 'terrorist group' by both Israel and the US because of its attacks on civilians.

The case took a strange twist last month when Pearlman's associates claim that the Israeli secret service, Shin Bet, had recruited him in part because he had boasted of carrying out these attacks, but said that he only told the Shin Bet agents that he did it in order to impress them. His associates said that the Shin Bet were now attempting to prosecute him in revenge for his refusal to be recruited by them. Shin Bet officials called the claim ridiculous, and said they had never tried to recruit Pearlman.

Palestinians claim that the 'lack of evidence' cited by prosecutors was actually due to the lack of a proper investigation of the cases in question.

Israeli suspect in murder of four Palestinians released on house arrest

[ 12/08/2010 - 11:01 AM ]

NAZARETH, (PIC)--

An Israeli court decided on Wednesday to release an Israeli suspect in the murder of four Palestinians to house arrest, despite Israeli intelligence presenting the court a confidential report about the suspect’s involvement in a terrorist murder act.

The Petah Tikva judge decided to release Chaim Pearlman on house arrest after he was detained for a month by the Shin Bet security force under suspicion of killing four Palestinians.

Pearlman was freed to his parents’ home in the Tekwa settlement despite that fact that a Palestinian victim in the attempted murder was able to identify Pearlman. But the judge dismissed his testimony claiming that the suspect’s image had already been released in the newspapers.

Pearlman, who has been described by Israeli media as a “Jewish terrorist”, is an active member in the right-wing Kach movement founded by Rabbi Meir Kahane. He was arrested a month ago for allegedly stabbing four Palestinians to death in the ‘90’s.

In other developments, Israeli settlers under protection of Israeli troops raided the town of Kifl Haris in northern Salfit, in an assault colored with abusive and hostile language against Islam and the Prophet Mohammed.

The Israeli Yediot Ahronot newspaper said on Wednesday that Israeli forces imposed a curfew on the town so Israeli settlers could perform rituals in it.

Zionist fanatics come out twice a year to carry out a religious rite punctuated with curfews and attacks on the town and its people.

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