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PLO offers truce as at least 100 killed in Gaza
[ARABNEWS] A senior PLO official proposed a 24-hour humanitarian cease-fire Tuesday in the Gazoo war, saying he spoke in the name of Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,, but was contradicted a short while later by a front man of the Islamist movement.In Gazoo, a health official said at least 100 Paleostinians were killed in Israeli There have been several instances in which the daily Gazoo corpse count in more than three weeks of Israel-Hamas fighting has surpassed 100. Israel has lost 53 soldiers, along with two civilians and a Thai national. Tuesday's cease-fire offer was made by the Paleostine Liberation Organization (PLO), of which Hamas is not a member. The largest group in the PLO is the Fatah movement of Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... , Hamas' main political rival. However, the difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits... the PLO's secretary-general,  Yasser Abed Rabbo... Paleostinian politician and a member of the Paleostine Liberation Organization's (PLO) Executive Committee. He holds an M.A. in economics and political science from the American University in Cairo..... , said the offer came after consultations with Hamas and Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... , a smaller murderous Moslem group in Gazoo. Paleostinian officials said Abbas has been in touch in recent days with Khaled Meshaal, the top Hamas leader in exile. "The Paleostinian leadership, following consultations with the leadership in Hamas and Islamic Jihad, announces in the name of all of these our readiness for an immediate humanitarian cease-fire for 24 hours," Abed Rabbo said in the West Bank. A Hamas front man in Gazoo, Sami Abu Zuhri ...a senior spokesman for Hamas. Zuhri gained notoriety in 2006 when he dropped his money belt containing somewhere between 640,000 and 900,000 euros, which was confiscated by Paleostinian security and customs officials at a routine border crossing from Egypt to Gaza. The news brought competing Hamas and Fatah forces to the crossing checkpoint for an epic face-making and hollering contest... , said that "the remarks of Mr. Abed Rabbo are not true and have nothing to do with the positions of the factions at the moment." It was not clear if Abu Zuhri reflected the views of the Hamas leadership in exile. In Israel, government front man Mark Regev declined comment. Tuesday's strikes came after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday warned of a "prolonged" campaign against Hamas. It was not clear if this meant Israel has decided to go beyond the initial objectives of decimating Hamas' ability to fire rockets and demolishing the group's military tunnels under the Gazoo-Israel border. Already, the intensity and the scope of the current Gazoo operation is on par with an invasion five years ago, which ended with a unilateral Israeli withdrawal after it hit Hamas hard. Gazoo's power plant also was forced to shut down Tuesday after two tank shells hit one of three fuel tanks, said Jamal Dardasawi, a front man for Gazoo's electricity distribution company. He said the damage would take months to repair. Even before the shutdown, Gazoo residents only had electricity for about three hours a day because fighting had damaged power lines. Posted by: Fred 2014-07-30 |
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