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| Hamas Agrees to Turkish Observers in Rafah - sort of |
| 2009-01-13 |
| [as of noon local time 1-13-2009] Hamas is set to announce that it is willing to allow a Turkish force to deploy at Rafah crossing, despite earlier insistence that it would treat any international presence along Gaza's border as an occupying force, according to a report Tuesday in the London-based Arabic daily Al Hayat. According to the sources, in the current talks Turkey is acting as the mediator between Egypt and Hamas, and not between Hamas and Israel. |
| Posted by:mhw |
| #7 Send in the Kurds if the Turks wont go. |
| Posted by: Mike N. 2009-01-13 17:59 |
| #6 Did you mean to say 'commence to begin to get ready to maybe start thinking abou....' |
| Posted by: Dorf 2009-01-13 16:41 |
| #5 90 years and the Ottomans are back ... |
| Posted by: Steve White 2009-01-13 15:47 |
| #4 "Set to announce" is meaningless. When there is an agreement with firm timelines, then I will begin to think something might possibly actually happen. When the troops deploy, then I'll believe it is probable, for probability values closer to one than zero. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2009-01-13 12:15 |
| #3 How about sending in Turkish Forward Observers? |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2009-01-13 12:14 |
| #2 Damn, I was hoping Bangladesh could get involved. Then they could send the Rapid Action Battalion. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2009-01-13 11:32 |
| #1 I'm all in favor of a lot of both Egyptian and Turkish military entering Gaza, because neither of them will tolerate Hamas' antics one bit. Ideally, Israel could ask Iraq to send a brigade to Gaza, as they are skilled at reestablishing order. There would be a butt load of dead Hamas, if they did. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2009-01-13 10:39 |