Hamas is Willing to Make a Year-Long Hudna (Truce) w ith Israel if
it Agrees to it!
March 4, 2006
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As I have mentioned in several previous Blogs, Israel is committed to the process of unilateral withdrawal from the West Bank and finishing the security barrier around it in 2007.
I expect an increasing number of terrorist acts inside the West Bank, but a decrease outside it in
Israel proper.
And, as I have mentioned in previous Blogs, the establishment of a Hudna (Truce), which is allowable under Islamic law, could mark the start of a time of relative “peace and safety” in Israel proper.
The usurps, which follow, were extracted from www.haaretz.com, and were written by News Agencies.
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Moscow: Hamas Agrees to Year-Long Ceasefire with Israel
March 3, 2006
By News Agencies
MOSCOW – The Russian Foreign Ministry on Friday said Hamas has agreed to a year-long ceasefire with Israel, on condition of it refraining from any use of force during that time.
“Hamas confirmed its willingness not to withdraw from the March 2005 inter-Palestinian agreement on a cease-fire on the understanding that Israel will also refrain from use of force,” a Foreign Ministry statement said.
The agreement between Palestinian militant factions was struck in Egypt last year following the Sharm al-Sheikh summit where Israel and the Palestinian Authority signed a ceasefire
agreement.
On Friday the U.S. described the meeting between Russian diplomats and Hamas leaders as a positive development.
A Hamas leader in Moscow, Ezzat El-Resheq, said the Islamic militant group would look positively on an extension of the ceasefire, but only if Israel “ended its aggression, assassinations and arrests and freed Palestinian prisoners”.
“The ball is now in Israel’s court,” he told Reuters.
Earlier, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told Palestinian election winner Hamas that it must recognize Israel’s right to exist, Interfax news agency said.
“The issue of recognition is a done issue.
We are not going to recognize Israel,” Mohammed Nazzal, a senior official accompanying the group’s exiled political leader Khaled Meshal, told reporters after their delegation arrived in Moscow.
The Russian foreign minister was quoted as saying by the RIA Novosti news agency that Hamas was ready to honor all the agreements the Palestinian administration had undertaken as part of the Middle East peace process if Israel made steps to meet it halfway.
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