| Submit your comments on this article |
| Israel-Palestine-Jordan |
| Analysts say Hamas, Israel heading for long-term truce |
| 2015-07-18 |
| [AA.TR] Some political analysts believe Israel and Gazoo-based Paleostinian resistance group Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, may be heading for a long-term truce following years of bitter -- and often violent -- animosity, based on recent statements by leaders from both sides. Hamas, which has governed the Gazoo Strip since 2007 after winning legislative elections one year earlier, has remained tight-lipped on the issue. Indeed, for harder-core Paleostinian resistance groups, the notion of détente with Israel remains anathema. But Ismail Haniyeh ...became Prime Minister after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank... , a senior Hamas political leader, has recently made several veiled statements hinting at such a possibility. "Thanks to ongoing Paleostinian efforts...," Haniyeh said in early July, "the Gazoo Strip will be relieved soon and the siege will be lifted." Since 2007, Israel -- with Egypt's help -- has blockaded the strip by air, land and sea. The embargo has deprived the enclave's almost 2 million inhabitants of most basic commodities -- including food, fuel and medicine -- and turned the entire territory into a de facto prison. Despite the years of suffering caused by the siege, Paleostinian political analyst Tayseer al-Muhaysini, believes Hamas may be mulling a long-term accommodation with the self-proclaimed Jewish state -- one, he believes, that would include an end to the eight-year embargo. "Repeated hints by Hamas that the end of the blockade was imminent, along with recent calls to lift the siege by certain Israeli leaders, suggest that there is movement on this track behind the scenes," al-Muhaysini told Anadolu Agency. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Lawn Mower in the shop? |
| Posted by: Shipman 2015-07-18 18:22 |
| #1 Four, maybe even six weeks. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-07-18 17:30 |