Yet, as a matter of law, such action would represent a very substantial and ominous wrongdoing by the State of Israel.
Every state has an obligation under international law to seek out and to prosecute terrorists.
It is codified directly in many different sources, and is also deducible from the binding Nuremberg Principles. It follows that the State of Israel, in the process of releasing convicted terrorists, would be acting in clear violation of international law. Terrorism is an established crime under international law. And if these offenses were not enough of an affront to world legal order, many of the terrorists to be released from Israeli jails will immediately assume high positions in the Palestinian Authority's various police and security services. I do not believe the law of nations imposes the same responsibility or liability on nonstate actors, such as the PLO, as it does on states and persons acting under color of state law.