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Originally posted by Zaphod58
reply to post by Senduko
They weren't going to bomb the hell out of them to get Hamas. They never said they wouldn't arrest those responsible for that bombing.
Originally posted by CatrionaBeldame
reply to post by curiouscanadian777
I think a thread on Syria would be great if we could get one started. I wouldn't know where to start. I haven't really been following it much. Hopefully someone will make one.
Originally posted by CatrionaBeldame
reply to post by DragonFire1024
Great thread to start. Thank you for doing it. I've often wondered about the dangers they faced, and being able to see what happened in Gaza helped me see that some. I'll be reading what you posted there.
If he knows it's bad, I have to wonder why he would destroy his own country like that while trying to defeat the rebels.
It does seem to answer the questions a few in this thread had about why Israel is giving up so easily, which doesn't ring true somehow.
True about Gaza. They aren't allowed to go anywhere.
Why couldn't the refugees make a life in Turkey, and Jordan?
It sounds to me like they are being made to put their lives on hold while Assad fights all this out with rebels that won't leave. No, that would be just to easy for the rebels to do that.
RT: Given the experience of previous ceasefires between Israel and Hamas – how long do you expect this to last?
Don DeBar: Well unfortunately earlier they had included the lifting of the blockade of Gaza in the peace agreement, and just here and now that is not the case. The reason for the entire extension of the hostilities – the precondition – has not been lifted, which is the starving of the 1.5 million people of Gaza by Israel illegally. So until that blockade is lifted, any act of violence that comes out of Gaza – as mild as they are, are really the acts of self defense from a people that are being starved to death. So until that precondition is removed, there should be no peace, and certainly there will not be.
rt.com...
Israeli sources said Israel had agreed to a truce, but would not lift its blockade of the Palestinian territory, which is run by the Islamist Hamas movement.
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Israel's best-selling Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper had reported an emerging outline of a ceasefire agreement that called for Egypt to announce a 72-hour ceasefire followed by further talks on long-term understandings.
Under the proposed document, which the newspaper said neither party would be required to sign, Israel would hold its fire, end attacks against top militants and promise to examine ways to ease its blockade of Gaza...
www.huffingtonpost.com...