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..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...negotiators in Cairo this week signaled a willingness to come down from demands they made last month that led to the collapse of hostage talks in Doha, an Israeli official and an Arab diplomat familiar with the matter told The Times of Israel on Friday.
Arab mediators passed along the development to Israel, but Jerusalem responded that it is not interested in another partial ceasefire and is only willing to forgo plans to take over Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
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disproportionate response...
City if Hamas agrees to all of its demands for ending the war, the Israeli official said.
Those demands include the release of all 50 remaining hostages, the disarmament of Hamas and the demilitarization of the Gaza Strip.
But the gaps on those issues are very wide, particularly regarding the disarmament of Hamas, with the Arab mediators believing that it is a "poison pill" designed to blow up the talks, as it will likely require ongoing intensive Israeli military operations in Gaza in order to verify that it is being upheld, the Arab diplomat said.
Instead, the Arab mediators prefer a gradual approach to dealing with Hamas’s weapons, akin to the system that is in place in Leb
...The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. Only one of those statements is an exaggeration....
. Arab countries are willing to contribute troops to this effort on the condition that it is at the invitation of the Paleostinian Authority, the diplomat recalled.
But another of Israel’s conditions for ending the war is that the PA be barred from any governance role in Gaza, effectively preventing the Arab initiative from moving forward.
Despite opposition from Jerusalem, Egyptian and Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
i mediators are planning to resume talks with Hamas on Saturday with the aim of getting the terror group’s final approval on an updated proposal that is far closer to the one that the United States and Israel authorized last month.
While this has been characterized as a partial deal, the Arab diplomat stressed that it still has the potential to turn into a permanent ceasefire if the sides hold successful negotiations during the envisioned 60-day truce. During that two-month period, 10 living hostages and 18 bodies will be released in exchange for an agreed-upon number of Paleostinian security prisoners.
The US and Israel pulled their negotiators out of Doha last month due to frustration over Hamas’s demands regarding the scope of the Israeli military’s withdrawal from Gaza, the humanitarian aid
mechanisms that will be in place during the truce and the number of Paleostinian security prisoners it was demanding, the Israeli official said.If Hamas gives its final approval of a softened proposal that comes down from those demands in the coming days, the mediators will present it to Israel, forcing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to decide whether to retreat from his declarations that he will no longer accept partial deals.
If he agrees to walk back those assertions, the sides will still have to hold another round of talks to agree on the Paleostinian security prisoners to be released in the deal, the Arab diplomat clarified.
The Israeli official said that the security establishment will likely urge the politicianship to take the deal, as it will secure the release of at least 10 living hostages, whereas taking over Gaza City will risk the lives of some of those captives, with no guarantee that the military pressure will lead Hamas to capitulate.
Netanyahu currently feels that Hamas is buying time by expressing interest to mediators in a partial deal when it is not actually serious and that only military pressure will secure the release of all remaining hostages, the Israeli official added.