Posted on 07/16/2014 6:51:28 AM PDT by Resettozero
One day after an Egyptian-brokered cease-fire accepted by Israel, but rejected by Hamas, fell through, the terrorist organization proposed a 10-year end to hostilities in return for its conditions being met by Israel, Channel 2 reported Wednesday.
Hamas's conditions were the release of re-arrested Palestinian prisoners who were let go in the Schalit deal, the opening of Gaza-Israel border crossings in order to allow citizens and goods to pass through, and international supervision of the Gazan seaport in place of the current Israeli blockade.
Bishara, who fled Israel in 2007 after he was accused of aiding Hezbollah during the Second Lebanon War, estimated that the escalation would end within the next two days. He also accused Israel of agreeing to Tuesday's short-lived cease-fire in order to legitimize further air strikes on Gaza after Hamas rejected the plan.
He said that Palestinian factions had been in talks with international authorities who would have accepted the terms Hamas has set forth, but the Egyptian initiative, which favored Israel and ignored the goals of the "Palestinian resistance," brought all negotiations to a halt.
Bishara, who currently lives in Qatar, contended that Egypt's shared interests with Israel and conflict of interest with Hamas prevented it from being an effective negotiator.
Instead, Bishara recommended that Turkey and Qatar, along with the US and other Western powers, lead the negotiations between Hamas and Israel.
On Tuesday, Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said that the Islamist group had not received an official cease-fire proposal, and he repeated its position that demands it has made must be met before it lays down its weapons.
Hamas's armed wing, the Kassam Brigades, rejected the reported text of the truce deal, saying: "Our battle with the enemy continues and will increase in ferocity and intensity."
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If I were Bibi, I’d tell them to blow it out of their anus and keep taking it to them.
They must think they can build their own Nukes in ten years.
How about the 1 condition that Israel not be fired on again?
Here’s the plan:
(1) Get Israel to agree.
(2) Hamas gets what it wants.
(3) Next day, Hamas breaks the “cease fire.”
10 years? Utter BS.
“The opening of Israel/Gaza passages to allow citizens to pass through”
The Israelis used to allow the West Bank Palestinians to come in to work. There were too many terrorist incidents, so the borders got closed.
Here, it’s a request for more access to terrorism. Of course, Hamas would say, “That’s not our martyrdom operation... it’s someone else’s. Israel had better not break the truce, the ten years isn’t up yet.”
Sounds like Cuomo “10 years no taxes”
Kind of like making an immigration deal with Obama.
Someday Israel will sign a 7 year peace treaty. If you’re alive at that time, pity.
Why not a 20-year cease-fire? 50-year? 100 years?
Doesn’t matter. Everyone knows Hamas doesn’t keep its word, and the “cease-fire” will be violated the next day.
(BTW, given the drama of this proposal, Hamas must now be reeeeeaaalllly desperate.)
Only liberals are stupid enough to let the losers demand conditions.
Take the Emperor Palpetine approach, “Wipe them out. Wipe them all out.”
Islam = evil.
Period.
Let me hazard a guess...
1. All Jews in Israel will immediately disarm.
2. All Jews in Israel will immediately convert to Islam.
3. Any Jews who do not wish to perform 1 and 2 will commit suicide.
Am I close?
It’s interesting that Hamas sets this at ten years because this is the maximum time allowed for a “hudna”. ...
Quoting ...
Hudna has a distinct meaning to Islamic fundamentalists, well-versed in their history: The prophet Mohammad struck a legendary, ten-year hudna with the Quraysh tribe that controlled Mecca in the seventh century. Over the following two years, Mohammad rearmed and took advantage of a minor Quraysh infraction to break the hudna and launch the full conquest of Mecca, the holiest city in Islam.
http://honestreporting.com/hudna-with-hamas/
“We will only kill half the Jews and take all Israeli territory. Only then we might consider posdibly maybe not killing the other half.” -Hamas
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