Related: Israel to Expand War to Egypt
"Israelis to meet on cease-fire proposal; Diplomats to work on final details of multifaceted plan" by Craig Whitlock and Glenn Kessler, Washington Post | January 17, 2009
JERUSALEM - .... As Israel faced harsh censure from some of its friends in the Middle East, including Turkey and Qatar, an Israeli government spokesman said the military operation was "in its final act."
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Israel sent diplomats to Cairo and Washington yesterday to negotiate final details of a multifaceted plan that would stop the war largely on Israel's terms. "There is optimism and things are moving favorably," said a senior Israeli official, speaking on condition of anonymity because talks were continuing....
Now this is either total propaganda, or the deal is shit!
Update (shit): Israel's breaks their own unilateral ceasefire in Gaza within minutes
Israeli officials have insisted that Hamas commit to a cease-fire that would endure for at least one year.
Of course, ISRAEL will be able to VIOLATE it at WILL -- just as they have EVERY OTHER AGREEMENT those lying NaZionist bastards have made!!
Israel has also sought assurances from Egypt, the United States and European countries that they will work together to prevent Hamas from re-arming and continuing to fire rockets into southern Israel.
While ISRAEL is ARMED to the TEETH!! I mean, the U.S. is SENDING THEM MORE WEAPONRY as I type!
In Washington, Israel secured one of its objectives yesterday by signing an agreement with the United States designed to help stop the smuggling of weapons into Gaza. Under the pact, signed by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni of Israel, the United States pledges to help track and thwart smugglers from supplying Hamas with rockets and other munitions.
But they can't deal with our porous southern border!
Rice told reporters the agreement would be part of a broader international effort - including similar arrangements with European countries - to stem the flow of arms into Gaza....
Why is my bullshitometer in the red zone?
Israel has imposed a near-total blockade on Gaza since Hamas, which does not recognize Israel's right to exist and has targeted southern Israel with rockets for years, took exclusive control of the strip in June 2007.
Where do I start with the OMISSIONS and LYING, huh? Hamas won elections? Israel targeting Palestine all these years?
Yeah, I AM SICK of the GOD -DAMNED JEW MEDIA!!!!!!
Israel withdrew its soldiers and settlers from Gaza in 2005, ending a presence in the territory that began in 1967 when Israeli forces occupied Gaza and the West Bank. Palestinians envision establishing a state in the two territories.
Yeah, 38 years of a HELLISH OCCUPATION is just BREEZED RIGHT OVER!! Fuck this biased jewshit media!!!!!!!!!
Smugglers have eluded the blockade by digging tunnels under Gaza's southern border with Egypt, and the Israeli military has said it has blown up hundreds of tunnels in Gaza since the war began Dec. 27. But Israeli officials are worried that smugglers will burrow new routes as soon as the fighting ends. To prevent that, US and Israeli officials have discussed the possibility of constructing an underground barrier along the Egyptian-Gazan border.
Oh, ANOTHER WALL of APARTHEID for PALESTINIANS -- this on the EGYPT BORDER!!!
State Department spokesman Sean McCormack acknowledged the United States has sent a team from the US Army Corps of Engineers to the region to study the issue. In a news conference, he said the US government has committed money as part of the anti-smuggling effort, but would not say how much....
Are YOU FUCKING KIDDING?
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