A recent headline in Haaretz claimed the Israeli government withholding of Said Abu Jamal and Uday Abu Jamal’s corpses, they are the two Palestinians cousins responsible for carrying out the synagogue attack in Jerusalem last Monday, was an “unprecedented move“. How odd, for there’s nothing unprecedented in the least about Israel refusing to release the bodies of deceased Palestinian militants to their families for burial. How short are our memories? It was only two years ago Israel ceremoniously returned 91 Palestinian bodies back to their families as a bargaining chip to grease Abbas into yet another round of futile “framework” negotiations.