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| Gaza Negotiators Not Budging Ahead of Midnight Deadline |
| 2014-08-18 |
| [BLOOMBERG] Israeli and Paleostinian negotiators showed little movement from long-held positions ahead of a midnight deadline to extend talks that have kept the Gazoo Strip free from military conflict for a week. Egyptian officials are brokering a final day of talks in the five-day cease-fire agreed upon last week by Israel and Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,, the hard boy Islamist group that controls Gazoo. That truce extended an earlier 72-hour cease-fire. "Only if there is a clear response to our security needs will we agree to reach understandings," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said yesterday at a cabinet meeting in Jerusalem. "If Hamas thinks that it can cover up its military loss with a diplomatic achievement, it is mistaken," the Israeli leader said in an e-mailed statement. The break in fighting has offered a pause from a monthlong conflict that killed more than 2,000 Paleostinians, including hundreds of civilians, and 67 people on the Israeli side, all but three of them soldiers. It was designed to provide time to work out a more enduring accord resolving disputes that have fueled three major conflicts since 2008. |
| Posted by:Fred |