Israel Sets Terms as Hamas Inches Closer to 10-Day Ceasefire

Israel granting a truce or ceasefire to Hamas or Hezbollah is a great mistake. The only thing Israel should accept from either is unconditional surrender. All Islamic truces are but devices Muslims use to regroup and rearm during periods of weakness. The Arabs have never honored any truce they have entered into. Israel asking for "ironclad guarantees" is the height of foolishness.

Accepting truces only perpetuates the conflict. Islamic attacks against Israel must stop, or eventually, Israel will cease to exist.

FROM ISRAELNATIONALNEWS.COM:

Israel Sets Terms as Hamas Inches Closer to 10-Day Ceasefire

by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahuif (IsraelNN.com)

Hamas is inching closer towards accepting a 10-day ceasefire in Gaza, and Amos Gilad, head of the security-political bureau of the Defense Ministry, is to visit Cairo Thursday to hear details.
Israel has set its conditions for a halt to the fighting, and it is not yet clear what Hamas will accept and demand.

Hamas sounded less militant, with terrorist spokesman Ghazi Hamad telling the British Broadcasting Corp. (BBC), "I am optimistic now because I think there is no other choice for us.... This kind of agreement can be done now, and I think now there is good progress in Egypt. We hope that now Egypt will contact Israel and talk about all issues."

However, warring factions in Hamas show a split in unity, which has been magnified by local leaders' being under pressure from the outside control of Iran and Syrian-based Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal.
"We do not agree with the initiative as it stands now," Beirut-based Hamas official Osama Hamdan told Al Jazeera television.

Israel has demanded ironclad guarantees from the United States and the international community that Hamas will not exploit a ceasefire to continue smuggling weapons into Gaza by land and sea.

The government has not mentioned the return of kidnapped IDF soldier Gilad Shalit nor has it spoken of the terrorist army and arsenal of rockets that Hamas would retain during a truce.

The Egyptian ceasefire proposal includes a 10-day halt to the fighting until details are worked out for security at the border between Egypt and Gaza. Israeli forces would remain in Gaza, a condition that Hamas previously has rejected but now is considering, according to the Associated Press.
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