Posted on 07/26/2024 6:20:39 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
Hamas has rejected some of Israel's key demands for a ceasefire-prisoner swap deal, Reuters reported.
According to the report, a Western source, Palestinian Arab source, and two Egyptian sources said that Israel's attempt to insert changes in the proposed deal is "complicating" efforts to reach an agreement which would end the war.
Israel has repeatedly said that it will not allow Hamas to regain control of Gaza, because doing so would allow Hamas to fulfill its promises to carry out additional such massacres.
According to the report, Israel is demanding to inspect the Gazans who would return to northern Gaza at the start of the ceasefire, while backtracking on its agreement to allow those who escaped to southern Gaza to return home freely. A Western source told Reuters that Israel is interested in "a vetting mechanism for civilian populations returning to the north of Gaza, where they fear these populations could support" Hamas upon their return home.
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Exactly. Hamas aims are transparent. The longer that it takes to get a deal the more Hamas & associated Gaza groups will be dead or inured, the more infrastructure will be destroyed and the more weapons will be eliminated.
Even better hostages alive and dead will continue to be found and brought home. A deal is not in Israel’s best interest especially if terrorists in prison are set free by the thousands.
Negotiation with Hamas means setting up for another attack.
So the thing to do is rope-a-dope with their negotiations, with fighting still ongoing, and then spike the deal at some point. Bad faith? Sure. And they’re negotiating in bad faith, too. F@#$ ‘em.
Happily, neither side really wants a deal.
Bombs Away!
Fine. Not needed if there is a mile-wide flat, death zone along the entire border. So flat even a rat cannot hide. Strew it with mines and let hamas cowards blow themselves up.
B-but Saint Kamala said we should do the deal already and that way there’ll be peace and laughter forever after, and she’ll get to do a nifty photo op and become POTUS Saint Kamala! Would you deny her that opportunity to break through yet another glass ceiling? Waaaaah! Oh, and think of the children. Yeah. That, too.
It seems to me that Hamas is in no position to ask for ANYTHING.
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