Report: Hamas Proposes Broad Cease-Fire

AP on Yahoo ^ | 4/6/06 | AP - Jerusalem

[NormsRevenge]

JERUSALEM - Hamas has offered Israel a proposal for a broad, extended cease-fire in exchange for guarantees that the Israeli army won't attack militants in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, an Israeli newspaper reported Friday.

The Haaretz daily said the new Hamas-led government would pledge not to carry out attacks against Israel and would prevent other Palestinian groups from doing so. The proposal has been relayed to Israel through Egyptian mediators and other third parties, the paper said.

The paper quoted Israeli political and defense officials as dismissing the offer as a "trick." Israel refuses to deal with the new government, saying Hamas must first renounce violence and recognize the Jewish state. Despite heavy international pressure, Hamas has refused to halt its calls for Israel's destruction.

Israel and the Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas reached an informal cease-fire in February 2005. Hamas has largely honored the truce.

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Palestinian armed police officers stand next to a wall during clashes with protesters of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades outside the Finance Ministry building in Gaza City, in this photo taken Thursday, Feb. 9, 2006. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas consolidated his control of the powerful Palestinian security services Thursday, April 6, 2006 by appointing a loyalist to head three of the forces nominally under the control of the new Hamas-led government. Abbas' appointment of Rashid Abu Shbak as head of internal security was part of a systematic attempt by Abbas to diminish Hamas' authority since the Islamic group routed his long-ruling Fatah Party in January parliamentary elections, provoking the threat of a Western aid cutoff. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra,File)

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Palestinian Fatah supporters celebrate after the faction won the student council elections at the Hebron Polytechnic University Monday, April 3, 2006. Fatah and its allies won the student council elections Monday, wresting control of the council from the Islamic Hamas group for the first time in 15 years. (AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi)

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A Palestinian suicide bomber killed three Israelis outside a Jewish settlement in the northern West Bank in the first deadly attack since Israel's national election, as acting premier Ehud Olmert, seen here, voiced fears that awkward negotiations lay ahead to form a government to fix Israel's final borders(AFP/Menahem Kahana)

[Emmet Fitzhume]

Translation:

Hey Infidel Zionist loving pigs, We will consider the decision to stop killing the Jooooooooooosssssss in exchange for large amounts of cash.

Signed,
The Mighty Sons of Mohammed's Revenge Brigade

[Southack]

After losing Afghanistan, watching Syria pull its protective army out of Lebanon, getting routed in Iraq, watching Libya surrender its entire WMD program, Taylor ousted from Liberia, and being crushed by the Royal Family in Saudi Arabia, Al Qaeda is now seeing if Israel will permit it to have a "safe haven" in the Gaza Strip or West Bank.

Interestingly enough, such a "safe haven" would most assured attract at least one major Al Qaeda big-wig such as Zarqawi or Zawahiri.

Break out the popcorn...this request could easily be considered seriously (as a trap).

< wink >

[edcoil]

Ditto's

[Emmet Fitzhume]

"Joooooooozzzzzzzz, send us money, or by Allah we will KILL you all!!!"

[ncountylee]

Turn off the power and let the filthy vermin starve in the dark.

[calljack]

Another translation:

"Hey you joooooos, leave us alone while we stockplie men and weapons and prepare to wipe you off the face of the earth.
Thank you for your cooperation.

[Larry Lucido]

They're tired of getting beat up by broads?

[Emmet Fitzhume]

Yup.

These monsters are running low on money ever since the Western world cut off their terrorist government.

How else will they finance their suicide bombs toward Israeli civilians?

I still shudder when I think about the Mohammedan desecration/vandalism of Jewish Temples and cemeteries after the West Bank withdrawal.

"Savage" does not even begin to describe these people.

[Berlin_Freeper]

There is no legal basis or justification for Hamas to even announce a cease-fire. There is supposed to be no "fire" therefore there can be no "cease-fire".

Just the fact that Hamas announces a cease-fire, gives Israel the right to kill them.

[ARealMothersSonForever]

Break out the popcorn...this request could easily be considered seriously (as a trap).
Interesting what bankrupt organizations propose. Not that America should tell any foreign country what to do. But some sovereign countries might seize an opportunity to suppress hostile activities.

[musicman]

IMHO, THIS might have had a "little bit" to do with Hamas wanting a "cease fire".....


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1608876/posts

[Marine_Uncle]

" Break out the popcorn...this request could easily be considered seriously (as a trap). < wink >"
Poor guy sure gets bumped around. Maybe the Jews will put him out of his misery. He needs a long rest.

[Convert from ECUSA]

"Hamas has offered Israel a proposal for a broad, extended cease-fire in exchange for guarantees that the Israeli army won't attack militants in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, an Israeli newspaper reported Friday."

In other news at this hour, Charles Manson promised he'd really, really, really be a good boy from now on if they'd release him from prison, Osama bin Laden appeared at a press conference in downtown NYC to apologize for 9/11 and turn himself into the FBI, the Hollywood and MSM elite publicly apologized to the people of the US for all the trash and immorality they've supported for the past 40 years, Jimmuh Carter announced that he totally supported Israel and repudiated everything nice he ever said about Hamas, the PLO, Yasir Arafart, and the Federal Government announced that it was really going to crack down seriously on illegal immigration.

[Alouette]

Hamas has largely honored the truce.

MERDE DU TAUREAU!!!!

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[Convert from ECUSA]

"MERDE DU TAUREAU!!!!"

Must be the French translation of the exhaust product of male bovines, but the sentiment sure fits!

[rocksblues]

We offer a truce until we start getting money. We are running out of explosives and bullets you see.