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Islamic Jihad says Israel truce meaningless
[Ma'an] Islamic Jihad will not "beg for a ceasefire" from any party, the movement said on Sunday. The faction said it "will not and would not request that from anyone." "Truce means nothing to us," Dauod Shehab, front man of the movement said in a statement, "because we do not trust neither the [Israeli] occupation nor its pledges, so what we are interested in is the situation in the field." "If war is imposed then we will fight," he said "we do not have anything to be afraid of or to cry about." The movement did not initiate the escalation, the statement said. "At this stage we are not interested in escalation and the projectiles which we possess are defensive and means for fighting back," the movement added. If the assault stopped, the movement will take note of that, Shehab added, but if it continues "nothing will possibly stop us from responding to the [Israeli] occupation, we will be totally free in choosing the appropriate way to respond in the way, the place, time." He continued: "Our understanding of calm or ceasefire as comprehensive and unconditional, means that we can't talk about calm with while being pursued and assassinated." Many contacts had been made, he affirmed, "some of which we knew of, others we did not," and said such moves are "appreciated and respected," thanking those "who honestly move to stop the shedding of Paleostinian blood and to stop offenses on them," but despite this, the movement's position was related to the situation in the field. Shehab said that the recent attacks showed "the enemy had taken a decision on war and assault, and we decided to defend our land and our people, whatever sacrifices it would cost us." "We are confident that the goals of the [Israeli] occupation will fail," he said, adding that "the [Israeli] occupation will not succeed in passing its messages through our people in Gazoo." Posted by: Fred 2011-04-12 |
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