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| Quiet US Support for Egypt's Gaza Effort |
| 2008-03-07 |
| To defuse the threat from Gaza militants to Israel and President Bush's Mideast peace program, the U.S. has decided that the ends justify the means. Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, is considered a terrorist group by Washington. U.S. law forbids official contacts. Nonetheless, the Bush administration is giving quiet support for Egypt's attempt to broker a deal with Hamas for a truce in Gaza. Under this approach, which U.S. officials and Mideast diplomats confirmed, Hamas would halt rocket attacks from Gaza. Israel would agree not to launch the kind of military incursions that nearly wrecked the U.S.-sponsored peace talks last weekend and would ease its blockade of Gaza. "It's better to have a stable situation right now than to have Hamas doing what Hamas was doing, which was pulling the thread," a senior U.S. official said Thursday. The official spoke on condition of anonymity to describe a sensitive policy shift that gained momentum when Mahmoud Abbas, the U.S.-backed Palestinian president, canceled peace talks to protest the deaths of more than 120 Palestinians in the Israeli assault. Any progress is tenuous, as seen Thursday with the fatal shootings by a Palestinian gunman at a library of a rabbinical seminary in Jerusalem. It was the first major militant attack in the city in more than four years. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, after NATO meetings in Brussels, was asked about Egyptian-brokered truce talks. "I talked with the Egyptians and we fully expect the Egyptians to carry out the efforts that they said they would carry out to try to bring calm to the region, to try to improve the situation in Gaza," she said. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 As time goes on, I get the increasing feeling that those mooks arent worth the trouble, none of them, Kuwaitis included. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2008-03-07 16:52 |
| #4 Our leaders in DC are fucking insane. Posted by DarthVader 2008-03-07 10:07|| Front Page|| ||Comments Top I'd personally rather not slander the insane or mentally ill for which we can find pity, by wrongly comparing them to "our leaders in DC." If I may, the word you are searching for is TREASONOUS! |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2008-03-07 10:20 |
| #3 You think after 50 years of failure, people would not be so willing to try the same thing again and again. Our leaders in DC are fucking insane. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2008-03-07 10:07 |
| #2 Why would you expect them to keep their word to kafirs even if they did all sign? |
| Posted by: Cowboy is a compliment 2008-03-07 10:03 |
| #1 Never mind yet another hudna with one group while the rest keep shooting off kassem rockets. A full and permanent (eg until God/Allah's Judgement Day) surrender to, and peace treaty with, Israel by signed by every single Palestinian -- so that no new splinter groups can be formed to reconstitute the war -- is the only acceptable solution. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2008-03-07 09:10 |