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| Middle East |
| Hamas urges mutual halt to attacks on civilians |
| 2003-01-20 |
| Hamas is ready to halt attacks on Israeli civilians if Israel stops harming Palestinian civilians, an official of the Islamic radical movement said Sunday as it prepared for renewed talks with other Palestinian factions in Cairo. "You go first, okay?" âHamas rejects a halt to the resistance and rejects the truce which has been proposed,â Ossama Hamdan told AFP by telephone during a visit to Lebanon before heading to Cairo for the talks. âHowever, Hamas is sticking by its proposal formulated a year ago by recommending an end to attacks on civilians on both sides,â Hamdan said. Hamas would âstop attacking Israeli civilians without distinction for geographic boundariesâ if Israel stops attacking, killing, and arresting civilians and blockading their towns and villages, he said. Uhuh. And where's the hook? However, he added: âWe do not consider settlers to be civilians.â Right there. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #4 Hamas rules: 1. We do not attack civilians 2. No Israelis (Zionists, Jews, etc.) are civilians. |
| Posted by: Tresho 2003-01-20 20:41:41 |
| #3 On the third hand, any arrest by Israelis...uh...gets Hamas off the hook. |
| Posted by: Pink & Fluffy 2003-01-20 15:28:41 |
| #2 And another hook is that they consider all Israelis "settlers". |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2003-01-20 12:07:13 |
| #1 The other hook is that they DO consider murdering-gun-thug-Isalmaniacs to be "civilians". |
| Posted by: Scooter McGruder 2003-01-20 09:46:09 |