Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh says that his terror group at war with Israel is sticking to its conditions for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, including a complete Israeli military withdrawal from Gaza.
Israeli officials visited Egypt earlier this week in a renewed effort to secure a deal, but a Palestinian official close to mediation efforts says there are no signs of a breakthrough.
“We are committed to our demands: a permanent ceasefire, a comprehensive and complete withdrawal of the enemy out of the Gaza Strip, the return of all displaced people to their homes, allowing all aid needed for our people in Gaza, rebuilding the Strip, lifting the blockade and achieving an honorable prisoner exchange deal,” Haniyeh says in a televised speech marking Al-Quds (Jerusalem) Day.
In recent months, negotiators indicated that Hamas was privately willing to compromise on its demand for a permanent ceasefire in favor of a phased deal that would start with a six-week truce during which the sides would agree to negotiate something more sustainable.
@R3publicanTommyRepublican2mos2MO
Hamas has no interest in stopping its war against Jews.
Western leftists just want the Jews to stop resisting.
@9CJ6CB62mos2MO
The Israeli military has literal nuclear bombs. If there’s any country that’s being promoted to stop resisting, that’s Palestine.
@Patriot-#1776Constitution2mos2MO
"Literal nuclear bombs?" Not "figurative nuclear bombs"?
@9CJ6CB62mos2MO
@P4rtyTortoiseDemocrat2mos2MO
Maybe Israel wouldn’t have so many accidents if it changed leadership (?), especially if its leader helped fund Hamas, was not prepared and didn’t keep Israel safe on Oct/7, whose strategy for retribution is dreadful and whose son hides in Miami while the IDF fights terrorists ?
@AmusedSeagullDemocrat2mos2MO
why aren’t Gazans being allowed back to their homes? who would agree to a ceasefire without that?
It's always been about land for the Zionist movement. They truly believe it is God's will that they take back all of Palestine and remove all Arabs.
They view Oct 7th through that prism as well. It was a tragic loss, but not without its benefits.
@Patriot-#1776Constitution2mos2MO
This land has belonged to the Jews for THOUSANDS OF YEARS. These hostile Mohammedans have TAKEN IT OVER and RULED IT WITH AN IRON FIST FOR MILENNIA. Time for the Jews to take back their heritage and their Nation.
@9CJ6CB62mos2MO
They had it 2000 years ago, then got forced out. Yeah, it sucks, but the Palestinians don’t OWE THEM anything for existing for the last several centuries in the area. If we’re restoring lands to the oldest population, give america back to the Indians, and give Hawaii back to its natives. The Jews didn’t even own the area for nearly as long as the Romans if we’re going to use that idea, so therefore, Italy gets to say what’s happening in that area. Palestine before the occupation of Israel was actually much more manageable in diplomatic terms, the British and Alli… Read more
There happens to be a difference between settlers bringing Christianity, civilisation, private property, free markets, free trade, rule of law, and the rights of Englishmen to barbarous and uneducated tribes, and barbarous and unenlightened Mohammedan extremists inflicting incalculable terrors and liabilities on a population that happened to possess most of these benefits, and still linger there today, sowing the seeds of terror with their violent cultism. Americans and Englishmen brought the blessings of religion and self-government to the oppressed of the earth, whereas these Arab zealots brought the curses of barbarism and war upon what was then the best nation on the earth.
Anyone in their right mind would reject it.
So you offer to stop killing for 6 weeks then resume killing?
Gee what a great offer, so generous of you!
@XemplarySovereignForward2mos2MO
Not to mention Israel’s condition that Hamas NOT be a part of the diplomatic solution. Like I’m sorry, that ship has sailed, Hamas is not going anywhere at this point, they need to start coming to grips with the reality that Hamas won, but they never will.
I say “won” cynically knowing full well the horrific civilian cost that should never have happened, but it’s clear, Israel set their victory at the metric of total destruction of Hamas, they have failed, and in the process, are destroying their own future as a country.
@SomberLocustRepublican2mos2MO
Lol. They’re going somewhere. And it will be a beautiful thing for the Palestinians to be liberated from the terrorists
@YearningBasmatiRepublican2mos2MO
Ok good to know, sounds like they need to die then
@R1ghtWingFalconGreen2mos2MO
Lol they ask "Hamas to surrender". They define all males over 14 as Hamas. What do you think happens when all males over 14 hand themselves in to the IDF? Israel is probably building gas chambers
@EffervescentHawkSocialist2mos2MO
If "Hamas surrenders" they will arrest every male over 14, as they have defined them all as militants. Then they will execute them, as they have been doing to all the boys they've captured over the last 6 months
@R1ghtWingFalconGreen2mos2MO
Also, a teenager who was released on the last hostage deals was taken again by the IDF. These people are just bloodthirsty liars.
@ISIDEWITH2mos2MO
@ISIDEWITH2mos2MO
In situations of conflict, should the needs for aid and rebuilding be prioritized over political demands?
@9LBLK332mos2MO
In conflict, helping the people get help and rebuild should be prioritized over political demands.
Call me a cynic, but I think Hamas are monstrous enough to play the strategy of rejecting a ceasefire because after the foreign aid worker murders, the prevailing international opinion is swiftly turning against Israel. Why stop now when Israel can bury itself on the world stage?
@BoastfulTortoiseRepublican2mos2MO
Anyone in their right mind would've respected the ceasefire in place until 07 October. But Hamas started something they had no hope of winning and are now crying foul.
Israel rejected the Hamas proposal… If 2 parties negotiate and the negotiation fail, not one party is to blame. One asked too much, the other offered too little.
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