Israel agreed to let exiled Palestinian terrorists return. As part of last week’s cease-fire deal between Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, 39 gunmen who were deported to the Gaza Strip and Europe after holing up in Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity in 2002 are to be allowed back to homes in the West Bank.
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