But he could not release pilots unless they were not required by the IAF.

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Like the Bush administration before it, Obama is arguing that any release is voluntary, not required by law, despite two federal court rulings to the contrary.

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She said that since MEPs had an "automatic and constitutional right to lists, her authority for their release would not anyway have been required".

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The rightist Knesset bloc would not agree to a cease-fire agreement in which Israel is required to release a thousand terrorists, including mass murderers, from prison.

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