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Zubeidi: Al Aksa will halt attacks against Israel
AP / The Jerusalem Post ^ | 18 January 2005 | ASSOCIATED PRESS

Posted on 01/18/2005 2:10:22 PM PST by anotherview

Jan. 18, 2005 21:19
Zubeidi: Al Aksa will halt attacks against Israel
By ASSOCIATED PRESS

Zachariya Zubeidi, Jenin leader of the Al Aksa Martyrs' Brigades, announced Tuesday that his group would stop attacks inside Israel as a gesture to Mahmoud Abbas.

Zubeidi announced the halt as Abbas was in Gaza, trying to negotiate a cease-fire to be honored by the various organizations.

Shortly after Abbas arrived in Gaza on Tuesday, a Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up there, wounding eight Israelis. Hamas took responsibility.

The Al Aksa group has been behind dozens of shooting attacks and some suicide bombings in Israel and the West Bank.


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abbas; abumazen; alaksamartyrs; mahmoudabbas; palestinians; terrorattacks; terrorism; terrorists; zachariyazubeidi; zubeidi
What good, in the long term, is a temporary halt to attacks or another hudna with Hamas and Islamic Jihad? If there is ever to be peace there has to be one true Palestinian government and all these other groups have to be disarmed and defanged. I am not holding my breath that it will happen any time soon, if ever.
1 posted on 01/18/2005 2:10:56 PM PST by anotherview
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To: anotherview

Will he toss the Brooklyn bridge in with the deal, too?


2 posted on 01/18/2005 2:11:47 PM PST by seacapn
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To: anotherview

I am asking all my liberal friends to please hold their breath for this to happen. Less live voting that way.


3 posted on 01/18/2005 2:14:50 PM PST by handy old one (It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. Aristotle)
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"Will he toss the Brooklyn bridge in with the deal, too? "

Yeah, I will believe it when I see it.
4 posted on 01/18/2005 2:16:26 PM PST by e5man_r_u? (A Man's mission: Build, Protect, Provide)
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To: anotherview
Yawn.

These statements made after a recent suicide bombing and barrage of rocket attacks. Al Aksa is one of many terror groups. One pledges ceasefire while the other murders innocents.

Same game, words from this bunch mean nothing.

5 posted on 01/18/2005 2:16:53 PM PST by Nachum
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To: seacapn

...and the Sydney Opera House.


6 posted on 01/18/2005 2:17:20 PM PST by anotherview (Part of the Palestinians' "Zionist enemy" and proud of it.)
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To: anotherview

Somehow this isn't a big surprise. Al Aksa is the only group Arafat actually had the power to reign in directly, and it was the fact that they, and not just the crazies from Hamas and Islamic Jihad, kept up attacks that made it clear that Arafat wasn't worth talking to even after Oslo.

It still bothers me, though, when the Israelis behave as if the PA has the ability to restrain the hardcore Islamist groups. There can't be any progress (by which I mean a move toward, not so much peace, as choosing up new sides with the Israelis, Christian Arabs, and secularist Arab nationalists one one side, and the jihadists on the other) as long as any crazy with a bomb, and AK-47 or a homemade rocket can stop negotiations between Israel and the PA.


7 posted on 01/18/2005 2:22:54 PM PST by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know what this was)
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To: The_Reader_David

Arafat successfully moved against Hamas in 1996. He released those he arrested in 2000 and told them to go ahead with their war. A strong Palestinian leader CAN move against the Islamists. It's been done before.


8 posted on 01/18/2005 2:25:46 PM PST by anotherview (Part of the Palestinians' "Zionist enemy" and proud of it.)
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To: anotherview

A political gesture with absolutely no substance or content.


9 posted on 01/18/2005 2:27:49 PM PST by reagan_fanatic (Rap - the other Disco)
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To: anotherview

It might work. This is the most positive news I have heard so far.


10 posted on 01/18/2005 2:28:54 PM PST by livius
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What are you talking about? Those arrest were BS there were still suicide bombings pre-2000 in 96,97,98,99. There can be no strong Palestinian leader because there are no Palestinian people.


11 posted on 01/21/2005 12:59:42 PM PST by M 91 u2 K
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