Posted on 04/29/2008 11:28:12 AM PDT by SJackson
Israel may have 200 nuclear warheads, but Hamas has 200,000 people who want to blow themselves up inside Israel, Hamas leader Mahmoud Zahar said Tuesday.
Slideshow: Pictures of the week Zahar, who was speaking to supporters at the Islamic University in Gaza City, said Israel would pay a heavy price if it rejected the Egyptian initiative for truce with the Palestinians.
"If Israel says no, it will pay a heavy price," he said. "We are a besieged people and we will have to use all our tools to defend ourselves against Israel."
Zahar said he expected Egyptian Intelligence Chief Omar Suleiman to brief Israeli leaders next week on Cairo's efforts to achieve a truce.
He said that once Israel accepted the Egyptian initiative, all the border crossings into the Gaza Strip would be reopened. "The issue of the truce initiative will be determined finally next week," he added. "I believe Israel will accept the initiative, although it will try to drag its feet on some issues."
The Hamas leader pointed out that his movement had accepted a cease-fire with Israel in 2005. "Hamas benefited from that truce and no one can deny this," he said. "Even those who opposed the previous truce have admitted that it was useful."
Zahar criticized Palestinian factions that were opposed to the latest Egyptian initiative, saying some of them had received $1.5 million from Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to boycott a Hamas rally against the US-sponsored peace conference in Annapolis last December.
Zahar said that Hamas would not agree to the presence of EU monitors at the Rafah border crossing, as was the case before June 2007, when Hamas took full control over the entire Gaza Strip. In the past, Hamas said it would agree to the return of the monitors on condition that they lived in the Gaza Strip or Egypt and not in Israel.
Zahar's remarks came as representatives of several Palestinian groups began talks in Cairo over the truce proposal.
The Egyptians summoned the representatives in a bid to persuade them to accept the initiative. Among the groups that are participating in the discussions are Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
An Egyptian diplomat told The Jerusalem Post that all the groups have agreed in principle to the truce. He said that Cairo was optimistic regarding the prospects of achieving a deal as early as next week, especially since Hamas has already agreed to the truce.
The diplomat confirmed that Omar Suleiman was planning to visit Israel next week for talks with Israeli government officials on the outcome of his discussions with the Palestinian groups. "We are very close to achieving an agreement," the diplomat said. "We believe all the parties are interested in a lengthy period of calm."
Hamas legislator Mushir al-Masri said Tuesday that a truce with Israel would not be possible unless all the Palestinian groups agreed to it.
"We won't go to a hudna [temporary truce] unless there is a consensus among the Palestinians about it," he said. "We are aware that some groups are opposed to a truce, but don't believe that the major factions would reject a mutual and comprehensive truce that would end the siege imposed on the Gaza Strip."
Then I guess Israel will have to arrange to dispatch all 200,000 at once. Won’t be hard.
Friends of Jimmah.
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Official: Bush will pursue peace to end
Published: 04/29/2008
The Bush administration will pursue peace between Israel and the Palestinians until its final days, a top official said.
The talks are "actively being worked by the administration and would expect you'll see us working it very hard until the final days of the administration," John Negroponte, the deputy secretary of state, said in an interview Sunday on PBS in listing the administration's priorities in its final months.
President Bush is about to deliver a final push to the negotiations, touring Israel and attending a summit in Egypt next month.
Palestinian and Israeli negotiators "meet frequently, almost several times a week," Negroponte said. "So that's one important area of activity. Another is, of course, our efforts to hold the parties, that is to say, Israeli and the Palestinians' feet to the fire with respect to the road map implementing the road map, and we have intensified our efforts in that area such as, for example, bolstering the Palestinian security forces."
Bush first outlined the road map peace plan, involving a freeze in Israeli settlement and an end to Palestinian terrorism, in 2002.
Negroponte added: "And then we are working with the Arab countries, the countries in the region, to try to ensure their support for the process."
He reiterated the Bush administration's opposition to former President Jimmy Carter's recent attempts to involve in negotiations Hamas, the terrorist group controlling the Gaza Strip.
"We had counseled him against doing this, and we didn't think it was a good idea," he said. "In any event, what's done is done."
Ah, to be in Gaza, now that spring is here!
200,000 friends of Jimmy until they go boom, 200,000 friends of Satan for eternity.
muslim paradise not a very quite and tranquil place.
When the idiots are booming.
Sounds like time to add a third layer to the fence and put in land mines instead.
I guess America should take out my bad parathyroid gland/s, teach me how to use a rifle, and send me to Israel.
Drive them all into the sea.
Oops... Blam!
We have 199,999 suicide bombers!
Israel should build a “MartyrLand”, along the lines of “Westworld”, complete with automatronic Israelis, a replica of the Wailing Wall crowded with robotic Rabbis and crowded restaurants and social gatherings. Then every night, the dead Hamas Martyrs would be scooped up and the park repaired and equipment and replaced, ready for the next day. Such a park could easily handle over 500,000 jihadists all intent on self destruction in the name of Islam.
Well have at it. I'm sure the Israelis would be happy to detonate them for you.
Nice work Jimmah!.....
A small correction. It is 100 virgins. That makes the math easier.
Never forget that Satan's little helpers get 28 little boys in their carnal paradise, as well as the 72 female virgins. Remind the world of this at every opportunity.
A target rich environment.
How do you fight 200,000 suicide bombers?
100,000 fuel air bombs.
solution....kill them all and let allah sort them out. easy to identify your enemy...all of them!!
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