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14

Gaza and Israel: Israel’s Amos Gilad going to Egypt to negotiate truce


Hattip to Israelly Cool: (who is liveblogging from Israel though this is from the Ha’aretz ticker:

21:09 Foreign Ministry director heads to U.S. to discuss efforts to end Gaza fighting (AP)
21:00 Israel to send top negotiator to Cairo for Gaza truce talks (Reuters)

From the AP:

A senior official says Israel’s chief envoy in talks to end the Gaza conflict will travel Thursday to Egypt to offer a cease-fire proposal.

Egyptian and Palestinian officials said Wednesday they hoped to seal Hamas’ agreement on a 10-day halt in fighting, which would be presented to Israel for approval.

A senior official at the Israeli Defense Ministry says lead negotiator Amos Gilad will present Israel’s stance on proposed terms. Egypt is trying to broker a truce between Hamas and Israel after 19 days of fighting.

Supposedly the conditions do not yet include the return of Gilad Shalit.

More from Jameel liveblogging as it happens in Israel:

7:55 PM Channel 2 TV: IDF spox denies again all rumors that Gilad Shalit has been found/returned home/hospitalized/etc.

7:54 PM Hamas also demanding that IDF withdraw all tanks before start of ceasefire. Israel will probably agree (Channel 10 TV)

7:47 PM Good G-d. Channel 10 is reporting about the upcoming “ceasefire agreement”. Channel 10 claims that Israel will open border crossings to Gaza. Hamas will not return Gilad Shalit, Hamas will only cease shooting rockets at Israel for a year.

For this we went to war?

Those times are for Israel – which is seven hours ahead of Ohio (which is on EST).

There are numerous reports to be found on the Internet regarding what is and is not in the agreement, what must or must not get included or dropped and so on.  Likewise, it’s emerged that there are Hamas spokespersons addressing the agreement process that hail from Gaza, and are located in Lebanon, and are located in Syria. Oy.  If 14 Arab countries can all get to one place, you’d think that a ruling political party could get a single voice representing them there too.

How is that fracture not indicative of why Hamas does not represent the millions of Palestinians in the region? They need three people at a minimum to represent Hamas.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 2:29 pm January 14th, 2009 in Politics 

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