Cease fire hudna in Gaza at 6:00 AM
A According to the Prime Minister's Office, Abbas phoned Olmert and told him that he had received an agreement from all the different Palestinian factions to the cease fire, and in response "requested that Israel would stop all military operations in the Gaza Strip, and withdraw all its forces from there."The hudna is only in Gaza and not in Judea and Samaria. Lest any of you get any idea that this is the end of the fighting, please note that the 'Palestinian' terrorists are going to use this time to regroup:
The statement said that after speaking to his senior ministers and top security officials, Olmert told Abbas that Israel would respond favorably "since Israel was operating in the Gaza Strip in response to the violence."
Olmert, according to the statement, told Abbas "the end of the violence could bring about the end of Israeli operations, and his hope that this would bring stability to both sides."
Abu Mujahed, a spokesman for the Popular Resistance Committees, a Hamas ally, said, "We have set 6 a.m. tomorrow morning to stop firing rockets toward Zionist towns in our occupied land in return for a mutual cessation of the aggression committed against our people."And you wonder why I don't favor these 'cease fires'?
"We give six months to open real political horizons ... we agreed on the national accord to establish a Palestinian state, with the June 4, 1967 borders," he said.
He warned that if an agreement is not reached within that time, "Hamas will become stronger and the resistance will resume ... and will go on with a third intifada."
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 12:07 AM
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Because half a million people in the streets won't bring down the government. The MK's here are beholden only to their parties and not to the voters. And the parties backing Olmert figure that anyone who is unhappy about it will have a short memory.
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