Monday, February 27, 2006

Hamas - its terms for a truce

Incoming Hamas Chief Wants Political Truce - Yahoo! News

From the article above (emphasis mine):

Ismail Haniyeh — the incoming Palestinian prime minister — on Sunday denied saying Hamas would consider peace with Israel under certain conditions.

Haniyeh was quoted by The Washington Post in its Sunday edition as saying Hamas would establish "peace in stages" if Israel would withdraw to its 1967 boundaries — before it captured the
West Bank,
Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem.

But Haniyeh told reporters that his comments had been misunderstood. He said he was not referring to a peace agreement, only a "political truce." Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri told The Associated Press that Haniyeh's comments must have been mistranslated.

Haniyeh has demanded that Israel make a full withdrawal from lands captured in the 1967 Mideast war, release Palestinian prisoners and the return of several million Palestinian refugees and their descendants to Israel.

"Then Hamas can grant a long-term truce," Haniyeh said.

Those are his terms just for a truce??

What the hell, why stop there? How about a million US dollars for each returning refugee to compensate for hurt feelings?

And: just how many people can you fit within tiny Israel before running out of water, anyway? There's about 6.5 million there already.

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