HAMAS has declared that truce talks with Israel have failed.
According to a Hamas official in the Gaza Strip, the Egyptians may announce the failure of the truce talks in the wake of Hamas’s refusal to accept the Israeli conditions.
“Israel wants a free truce,” he said. “They don’t want to offer anything in return. They want an end to the rocket attacks in return for an end to their aggression.”
The official said Hamas was demanding the immediate reopening of all of the Gaza Strip’s border crossings and a halt to IDF operations.
He noted Israel had made it clear to the Egyptians that the borders would be reopened only after a truce went into effect and was not violated by any of the Palestinian factions.
Moreover, Israel was conditioning the reopening of the border crossings on the release of kidnapped IDF Cpl. Gilad Schalit, the official added.
He said Hamas had rejected the conditions.
H/T - Israel Matzav
The nerve of those Zionist pigs!
How dare they expect a “free truce”! After all, a “truce” would mean that, in addition to Israel ending “their aggression,” that Hamas too would have to stop acts of terror… Unacceptable!
On another matter, Carl in Jerusalem tells us that MSM (both print and electronic) have shown little interest in this story, and that he had only just heard about it on the radio this morning. Carl suggests a possible reason for this is that
Olmert is shifting from the ‘Palestinian track’ to the ‘Syrian track’
Check out CiJ’s post about the questionable timing and “unintended” effects of Olmert’s antics involving the Golan Heights and Syria.
UPDATE:
About those Golan talks and Olmert’s motives, here’s what Golan Heights residents are saying:
The onset of indirect Israel-Syrian peace talks in Istanbul with Turkish mediation was announced simultaneously Wednesday, May 21, in Jerusalem, Damascus and Ankara.
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The heads of Golan communities issued a statement Wednesday night accusing PM Olmert of acting against the national interest and will and placing Israel in danger. They said he is unfit to continue in office.
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I suspect that it’s because “No progress in Middle East peace talks” is about as shocking a headline as “School board agrees to discuss education” or “Tester links pygmy defect to shortness.”
sergei how can you make peace with people that want to kill you.
Israel can’t and shouldn’t make peace with A-rab fascists, Falsetinian ProPALganda fuKKKer maKKers and other Islamist Revolución! bastards. Israel just should expell all those A-rabs out of the land of Israel and declare their land as Dahr el-No-Islam !!!!
Was that even English?
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