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| Hamas lays out truce terms with Israel |
| 2014-07-14 |
| [Pak Daily Times] The Paleostinian Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, movement said on Monday it would not end hostilities with Israel without concessions by the Jewish state and that no serious efforts towards a truce had been made. "Talk of a ceasefire requires real and serious efforts, which we haven't seen so far," Hamas MP Mushir al-Masri told AFP in Gazoo City. Masri said Hamas would only negotiate on the basis of a set of concessions it wants to see Israel agree to. Those include the lifting of Israel's eight-year blockade on the Gazoo Strip, the opening of the Rafah border crossing with Egypt and the release of Paleostinian prisoners Israel has reincarcerated Please don't kill me! after freeing them in exchange for kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in 2011. "Any ceasefire must be based on the conditions we have outlined, nothing less than that will be accepted," Masri said. Speaking to AFP in Cairo, another Hamas official said a general framework had been presented, and that the group was committed to achieving more than it did in the truce deal that ended the last major round of violence with Israel in 2012. "We have a general framework, but have not declared point by point demands," he said. "We need to build on the 2012 truce and move forward. We don't want to go back." Masri told AFP that Arab countries and Islamic countries and Western countries were involved in discussions about a truce, but declined to give details. He said that Hamas was prepared to continue fighting and was ready for a long, drawn-out battle. The fighting entered its seventh day on Monday, with international pressure for a truce growing, but no sign of a concrete mediation channel or formula to end hostilities that have so far killed more than 175 people in Gazoo. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #6 Yeah, they'll end up settling for "Please don't kill us"... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2014-07-14 18:50 |
| #5 Public consumption for useful idiots. Keep destroying the leadership. Lather, rinse repeat. No more prisoner swaps. No more negotiation. These guys are a plague. And no more 100 mm dia steel pipes, either. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2014-07-14 18:24 |
| #4 My advice for HamAss is to go for stronger terms. Don't wimp out now, just when you have the Israelis on the ropes! (and personally, I'd add something about not re-animating Undead Zombie Sharon. We know where *that* leads) |
| Posted by: SteveS 2014-07-14 17:31 |
| #3 Textbook. Right out of Wimp Lo's The Art of War. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2014-07-14 16:58 |
| #2 Good. The last thing Israel needs is to stop now. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-07-14 16:22 |
| #1 "and a pony!" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2014-07-14 16:13 |