Israel won’t send team to Cairo, said to believe Sinwar seeks escalation on Ramadan

Times of Israel ^ | 2/3/2014 | LAZAR BERMAN

[marcusmaximus]

Israel will not be sending a negotiating team to Cairo, an Israeli official told The Times of Israel Sunday, after receiving an unsatisfactory response from Hamas on the latest framework for a hostage deal hammered out in Paris last weekend.

The Gaza-based terror organization refused to address Jerusalem’s demand to provide a list of living hostages and to lock down how many Palestinian prisoners Israel must release for every hostage freed, added the official.

Hamas’s position was conveyed to Israel through Qatar.

According to Channel 12, the war cabinet and the professional echelon all agreed that there was no point in sending a delegation to Egypt for ongoing talks given Hamas’s response.

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On Sunday afternoon, a Hamas official told CNN that the group will not agree to a deal without Israel consenting to an end to the war in Gaza, a non-starter for Israel.

[frank ballenger]

March 10 to April 9th.

Hamas will try to publicize this at the Ramandan Inn. /S

Ann Coulter (not a fan) wrote that American holidays are easy on us. House decorations, festive snacks, happy family dinner with all the trimmings, gifts for Christmas, Easter eggs and candy for Easter and lots of food for friends and family for Thanksgiving.

Muslim holy days are really hard on us. Intelligence chatter about terrorist plans, credible bomb threats, actual bombs in public areas, lone terrorist with a long blade slashing tourists, another with a grenade, people told to evacuate skyscraper after bomb is found with antenna to receive detonation signal.