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"He also warned of an explosion of violence in Gaza if Israel rejected the truce."
In other words: Accept our plans to annihilate you more slowly, or we'll get back to trying to do it quickly. "Mashaal: Cease-fire is a 'tactic'," by Khaled Abu Toameh for the Jerusalem Post:
Hamas is still waiting for an official response from Israel to the group's readiness to declare a six-month truce, Hamas leaders said Saturday.
They said the Egyptian authorities, which have been mediating between Israel and Hamas, have yet to come back with an official response to the truce initiative.
In an interview on pan-Arab Al-Jazeera television Mashaal said that Hamas was ready to cooperate but added that "it is a tactic in conducting the struggle. ... It is normal for any resistance that operates in its people's interest ... to sometimes escalate, other times retreat a bit. ... The battle is to be run this way and Hamas is known for that."
He also warned of an explosion of violence in Gaza if Israel rejected the truce.
"Hamas has asked the Egyptians for a document containing Israel's commitment to abide by the truce," Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal told reporters in Qatar. "On the basis of this document, Hamas will decide whether to continue with the truce or reject it."
Mashaal said the truce was Egypt's idea and that Hamas would agree to it only if Israel complied with certain conditions. "Hamas did not initiate the period of calm," he said. "It came from the Egyptians."
According to Mashaal, the cease-fire proposal was presented after Israel's attempt to invade Gaza failed.
He said that "Hamas will accept the Egyptian offer of a period of calm as a strong move and not a weak one."
Posted by Marisol at April 27, 2008 2:30 PM
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Mashaal said, "Time Out! While we reload!"
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at April 27, 2008 4:22 PM
""Hamas has asked the Egyptians for a document containing Israel's commitment to abide by the truce,"
WHY?...over the years Israel has signed many agreements with the Muslims, and Israel has often given up land, released prisoners, given them money, provided them with food, medicine and water...all the Muslims ever provided was rocket attacks, kidnappings, rapes, murders, and constant threats of death..
I would question Hamas' commitment to abide by the truce..
Posted by: pulsar182 at April 27, 2008 5:04 PM
One always welcomes the Muslims, such as Meshaal, who are speaking -- truthfully -- to a Muslim audience, and who do not, therefore, bother to disguise what it is they are up to. When Meshaal says that the "truce" is merely a "tactic" he does not have to add that the basis for the Hamas action is the Hudaibiyya agreement made in 628 A.D. by Muhammad with the Meccans. All Muslims know that. And all Muslims know perfectly well that any other agreeement, made not by Hamas alone but by Fatah, or the PLO, or the government of any Muslim state, will be regarded by most Muslims in exactly the same way -- that is, as an agreement that is entered into not because its terms must be obeyed (Pacta Sunt Servanda is a concept applicable to non-Muslim states, but not to Muslim ones -- they have a different idea of what principles apply in the case of treaties between Muslims and Infidels), but because it is a way of buying time, and then, when the Muslim side is stronger, of ignoring or breaking any of the commitments made by the Muslim side. And that is exactly what the last sixty years of treaties and agreements made between Israel and its circumambient neighbors has largely meant. Whenever they could get away with breaking an agreement or a commitment, they did. Whenver Israel's power was too strong, and might threaten their interets, they would not outright break such agreements, but do it by degrees. Just look at how Egypt has failed to honor a single one of its commitments, under the Camp David Accords, spelled out in some detail, to promote non-hostile, even friendly relations, at every level, with the people and state of Israel. If there is a "peace" with Egypt that "peace" is certainly violated in many ways - and coming up with that "truce-tactic" is one more example -- and what keeps Egypt from more than diplomatic and economic warfare that it has never let up on is the fear of what Israel could do in retaliation --which is to yet again take the Sinai, and this time, refuse -- for the third time -- to give it back.
Posted by: Hugh at April 27, 2008 5:36 PM
Ceasefire merely means "releading".
Posted by: profitsbeard at April 27, 2008 6:24 PM
"He also warned of an explosion of violence in Gaza if Israel rejected the truce."
Is that a threat? Israel isn't IN Gaza. Muslims are.
Posted by: PMK at April 27, 2008 6:51 PM
PMK, I wondered the same. It seems the logic goes like this: "If you don't do as I say, I will kill the members of my own family, and it will all be your fault."
There has to be a name for this form of mental illness.
Posted by: Lex at April 27, 2008 8:17 PM
Lex,
Childishness? They clearly have a death wish, but what Muslim doesn't? The "terrible twos" are the only other way to describe such behavior. All they can do is throw a tantrum if they don't get what they want. BABIES!
at April 27, 2008 8:57 PM
Can somebody forward a copy of Mashaal's statement to our peripatetic former president, Jimmy Carter?
We probably ought to bundle it with Yasser Arafat's statement about signing the Oslo peace accords with Israel ("it's just a hudna like the Hudaybia treaty") so Mr. Carter might at long last learn a little something about Arab/Islamic "negotiating".
at April 28, 2008 12:48 AM
Its far better to let the Hamas bring on the explosion they've been promising for years. I'm sure the IDF is ready to go. After this statement from Hamas my contempt for peanut Carter increases no end. I can't believe that any politician can so naive as to accept anything Maashal says at face value. I have to conclude that Carter is a genuine specimen of an anti-semite.
at April 28, 2008 4:17 AM
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