There was little public or official reaction in West Germany to yesterday’s release of two Palestinian terrorists from a West Berlin jail prior to the World Cup Soccer Championships which begin June 13. The two men, All Salem, 33, and Mohammed Zaher, 18, were given long sentences in April for plotting bomb attacks on Israeli offices in the city. (In London, the Zionist Federation issued a statement strongly criticizing the Federal German Republic’s decision to release two terrorists.
“The rule of law is rendered meaningless and impotent when even the threat of terror is sufficient to extort concessions from democratically elected governments,” the statement said.)
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