Sunday - July 02, 2006

Gaza Update

Lessons For The Day: When dealing with terrorists, (1) never try to negotiate with them until you have beaten the crap out of them, (2) don’t believe a thing they say, (3) ignore any media campaigns they mount to gain sympathy, (4) keep pounding on their pointy little heads until they decide to cooperate, (5) repeat step 4 as many times as necessary. Got all that? Good! President Bush understands that. So do the Israelis. Sometimes I wonder if anyone else in the entire freaking world understands it.

The Pallies (who have to hide their faces in the picture below because they are miserable, low-life retards who know their criminal acts will get them hung or shot if they are ever captured), are feeling the full wrath of the Israelis and are starting to get the point. It appears they are now ready to negotiate. I might add that this willingness to negotiate comes only after they have been pounded mercilessly for nearly a week. This is because they have thick skulls with no brains inside.

Palestine ‘Ready To Trade’ Captured Israeli Soldier
Negotiators ‘near deal’ in secret talks as Israel launches helicopter strike on Palestinian leader’s HQ
_{(GUARDIAN - UK) - Sunday July 2, 2006}

Palestinian militant sources claimed last night that they were close to reaching an agreement in negotiations over the release of an Israeli soldier. They want a guarantee that Israel will free prisoners at a future date in return for the release of Corporal Gilad Shalit.

Palestinians say they accept that Israel will not free any prisoners immediately, but insist they will give up the 19-year-old soldier only in return for a commitment for a future release.

Because they have no confidence in Israeli assurances, they stipulate that it must make a commitment to a third party such as Egypt. Israel would also be expected to end its attacks on the Gaza Strip.

Palestinian Deputy Minister of Prisoner Affairs said Shalit had minor injuries but was in a stable condition. Speaking at a news conference in Ramallah, Ziad Abu Aen cited ‘mediators’ as telling him that Shalit, captured during a raid into Israel by militants last Sunday, had three wounds: ‘I guess shrapnel wounds.’

The news came as an Israeli helicopter gunship fired a missile at the Gaza City office of Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh. Yesterday the three groups holding Shalit said they would free him if Israel released 1,000 Palestinian women, children and humanitarian cases from prison. Mark Regev, of the Israeli Foreign Ministry, rejected the demand, saying that Israel would make no deals.

There has been energetic diplomacy to prevent the situation descending into a bloodbath. Ghazi Hamed, spokesman for the Hamas government, said Egypt, Turkey and other governments were mediating and making progress. ‘Israel says it will not agree to a simultaneous release, but it will agree to release prisoners in the future. We are looking for a third party, possibly Egypt, to accept a guarantee from Israel that it will respect that they will release prisoners at a later date,’ he said.

However, Walid Awad, a spokesman for Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian President, said ‘immense Egyptian efforts’ to resolve the crisis were being thwarted by Israeli intransigence and the inability of the Hamas government to exercise any influence on its military wing. ‘Ismail Haniyeh, the current Prime Minister, appears not to have any say in what is going on in this regard,’ he said.

- More on this breaking story at the Guardian ...

Posted by The Skipper     on 07/02/2006 at 11:06 AM   
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