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| Hamas willing to negotiate Israelis’ release, if 60 prisoners first freed — report |
| 2017-01-07 |
| [IsraelTimes] Terror group representatives meet with Egyptian officials to discuss swap of soldiers’ bodies, freedom for captive Israelis held in Strip. The Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, terror group is reportedly willing to negotiate the release of two Israeli civilians and the remains of two IDF soldiers held in the Gazoo Strip, if Israel releases 60 of the organization’s members from prison as a precondition to talks. The Gazoo-based group is currently holding the remains of IDF soldiers Staff Sgt. Oron Shaul and Lt. Hadar Goldin, who the army says were killed in the 2014 Gazoo war, and is also believed to be detaining Avraham Mengistu and Juma Ibrahim Abu Anima, two Israeli men who crossed into Gazoo on their own accord. The Hamas terror group has long demanded Israel first release hundreds of Paleostinians who were relocked away Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! after they were freed in the 2011 Shalit deal before it would even enter into negotiations with Israel over a prisoner exchange. According to a report in the al-Araby al-Jadeed newspaper, senior Hamas official Moussa Abu Marzouk discussed a prisoner swap with Egyptian officials last week, according to a translation Friday by Israel Radio. Abu Marzouk hailed Egyptian mediation between Hamas and Israel, but set a precondition that it would only launch negotiations into the possible release of the bodies and the captured Israelis if Jerusalem freed 60 Hamas members who were released during the 2011 prisoner swap for captive Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, but have since been rearrested by Israel. A high-level Hamas delegation will soon travel to Cairo to meet with Egyptian officials, Israel Radio reported. The matter of the captive Israelis was expected to be raised at the meeting, the radio report said. The Hamas terrorist group has slammed Jerusalem’s decision to stop returning bodies of Hamas hard boyz killed while carrying out attacks, calling the directive "evidence of criminality and barbaric occupation" by Israel. In a renewed effort to pressure Hamas into returning the two Israeli civilians and the remains of the two soldiers, the high-level security cabinet on Sunday ruled that Hamas murderous Moslems killed while carrying out attacks against Israeli civilians or security forces would be buried quietly, instead of being returned to their families. Israel has often gone to great lengths to retrieve bodies of soldiers with unknown burial places, setting up a designated unit within the Manpower Directorate to find them and, in some cases, embarking on regular search missions. For live soldiers, like Shalit who was captured by Hamas in 2006, and also for bodies of deceased fighters, Israel has often agreed to wildly lopsided exchanges with terrorist groups. To secure the release of Shalit, for instance, Israel set free 1,027 murderous Moslems from its prisons. That policy is heavily debated on the Israeli street and in the upper echelons of the country’s security services. One side stresses the need for Israel to do everything within its power to bring back any soldier who falls into enemy hands, while the other argues that such a sentimental approach to individuals, and especially bodies, is ultimately a weakness, which can be and has been exploited by Israel’s enemies. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #3 Yes, negotiate in the Korben Dallas style! |
| Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance 2017-01-07 10:44 |
| #2 Give us everything we want and then we'll talk about what you want. Seems like I've heard this before.........what they need is a great negotiator, someone that knows how to do a deal. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2017-01-07 08:13 |
| #1 LOL Where have I heard this before? |
| Posted by: newc 2017-01-07 03:04 |