Deja vu? “Jihad: Gaza ceasefire fragile and it will end at any time,” from China View, August 14:
GAZA, Aug. 14 (Xinhua) — Islamic Jihad movement’s armed wing on Thursday said the ceasefire with Israel in Gaza Strip was “fragile and was expected to end at any time.”
“We are using the lull to prepare fighters for the coming phase of confrontation,” a spokesman for al-Quds Brigades, the Islamic Jihad’s armed wing, said.
In one short, honest sentence, a simple jihadi declares what all cease-fires and truces are in essence: time for the weakened jihadis to regroup and prepare “for the coming phase of confrontation” (which, of course, short of world domination, is perpetual, e.g., ‘Umdat al-Salik, 9.16).