Truce or Consequences

February 13, 2006 17:01 by

According to AP, Hamas is offering Israel a long-term truce in exchange for reciprocity:

Hamas, while adhering to its violent ideology, has voiced willingness to agree to a long-term truce if Israel reciprocates.

Not exactly. Hamas continues to make it’s long-term truce offer contingent on Israel recognizing a Palestinian state in Gaza, the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem, a position AP recently labeled “pragmatic.”

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  1. Gdr

    8:52 pm

    Feb 13, 2006

    HR: take note… I’ve heard Hamas offer this “truce” on the BBC a few times. Each time it includes, along with the points you said, the so called “right of return”. Don’t leave that one off the list: it’s only the polite way to call for the destruction of the Jewish state of Israel.

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