Nationalist camp politicians and organizations were infuriated to learn that the Arab terrorists who murdered a young Jewish father two weeks ago were members of the Palestinian Authority-Fatah security forces, which have lately been partially armed by Israel and the US.

In addition, after Sunday night's announcement that two PA policemen had been arrested the day after the murder and a week before the Annapolis summit, it was realized that the news was kept from the public until after the Olmert-Abbas-Bush meeting. 

A third accomplice to the murder was later arrested by the PA.



Eldad: Olmert is Responsible for the Murder

MK Aryeh Eldad (National Union) reacted sharply:  "The blood of Ido Zoldan, may G-d avenge his blood, is on the head of Ehud Olmert and the members of his government, who decided just a few weeks ago to allow PA policemen to enter Shechem, and to give them rifles, ammunition and heavy weapons."



"Despite our warnings," Eldad told Arutz-7's Hebrew News department, "the Prime Minister is not stopping - and just today released even more terrorists. I accuse this Prime Minister of attempting to cause Jews to be murdered in order that his plan be carried out."



Homesh First

The "Homesh First" organization also responded to the news that the former Homesh resident Ido Zoldan was murdered by PA policemen: "True, Olmert did not pull the trigger, but he created all the conditions that enabled this murder. He allowed the terrorists to wear uniforms and he allowed them to have the weapons that were used in the murder."



Yesha Rabbis Council

The Yesha Rabbis Council said, "All the ministers of the government of Israel bear the responsibility for the murder of the holy Ido Zoldan.  The Arab enemy understands only strength and total dedication, such as Zoldan had, and his friends have - and not weakness and surrender such as that of the Government of Israel."



MK Nissan Slomiansky (National Religious Party) told Arutz-7, "I originally heard that the reason Israel did not publicize the identities of the murderers was because they had caught only two, and needed the PA's help in capturing the third one, and that's why they couldn't publicize it. If that's true, I support the government - but if it's not, and the reason why they did not publicize was in order to ease the Annapolis summit, this is a scandal of unprecedented proportions - and it must be stopped by simply refusing to hold the next round of talks with Abbas."



Arutz-7's Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu reports that Israeli media have relegated the news that two PA policemen were arrested for the murder to their back pages, and that some did not even report that PA security forces were involved.