2:50PM IL: Islamic Jihad and Gaza terrorists in Gaza after firing over 15 rockets into southern Israel on Sunday announced they will abide by a ceasefire, calling on Israel to withdraw its forces immediately. The terrorists stated this was an ultimatum and failure to comply would disqualify the ceasefire.
Israel has stated that while it if observing a unilateral ceasefire, it would be maintaining all forces in Gaza for the time being, until an agreement is signed and Jerusalem receives the necessary guarantees that Hamas will not once again be permitted to rearm itself.
In the meantime, European leaders and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert are about to begin their ceasefire summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, hosted by Egyptian leader President Hosni Mubarak.
(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)
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Wow do these guys have chutzpah! Apparently the IDF still has more work to do.
Hamas realizes that those who rule Israel are dependent on Euro-American support, and are in desperate need of a face saving way to withdraw. Israel failed to rescue Shalit, and Israel was unable to prevent Hamas for liberally firing at several of it major cities. Hamas won, and they are simply agreeing to let the Israelis withdraw their forces. From their perspective, the next battle will be about Israeli withdrawal from the Negev (and eventally from the Tel Aviv area, which is where most Gazans lived before 1948).
What a stupid country . Lose a war you were clearly winning.
Israel is by no means a naive military power. They depend on no one except themselves and are not proxies for others. Their military actions are strategic as is their restraint from using military action. IDF’s unilateral cease fire was an action taken in their best interest. Hamas, a terrorist group with no international standing or any positive intentions, cannot and will not dictate any prerequisites to Israel, a sovereign nation. Israel should and will use its full military might to protect its citizens. Hamas, but the virtue of its charter and very reason for existence, will never cease its violence or act in a peaceful and responsible manner.
to mark levin, not a stupid country but stupid and cowardly leaders… It was clear that Hashem with his kindness was helping us… Israel must REMOVE HAMAS if they want peace. World opinion cannot dictate decisions for our survival especially when Hashem is with us…
I don’t understand how Israel thinks a cease fire will help? Didn’t they learn their lesson already? I mean, think about it? Give me just one time that they made a cease fire and the other side actually stopped bothering us. “Eisav Sonay es Yaakov” – the Goyim will always hate us and seek to destroy us and we have to be strong and fight back. If you just look in navi you will see what happens when you decide to leave matters to the Goyim. Dovid left his family with one of the Goyish kings thinking that because they were on good terms nothing would happen, and in the end Dovid’s whole family was wiped out! It’s about time that we stop convincing ourselves that if we make ‘peace’ everything will stop. IT WON’T WORK!! We can not give up now. The Yidden have to protect what is truly theirs!
#5 The elected leaders of Israel think otherwise.
Hamas did win the last Palestinian elections and has substantial international standing as the representative of its electorate. If the United States would be as “friendly” to Israel as the European Union, it is quite possible that the Israeli economy would collapse, and at the very least, the Israelis would have to go through great economic sacrifices (maybe even, live like Hareidim instead of like Americans, as the middle class in Israel does). In an all out war with the Arabs, with the Russians, Iranians and Pakistanis helping the Arabs, and the US being neutral, Israel would probably be destroyed – at least, that appears to be why Israeli leaders are terrified of American public opinion, and terrified over America’s severaly weakened military capabilities (a poor showing in Iraq, financial problems at home).
carpet-bomb gaza (with leaflet distribution first of course). then see who is going to be setting the demands
thnks for the first comments hamas dictate the terms and like ive heard if u have saying this is my land and fighting for it or freedom and wtvr
and the other side only fights for their defense and kills 1600 people and accomplishes nothing
who wins?
iliv2bhap:
I wish I understood what you wrote.
The way I (and most normal people) see it, the IDF accomplished as much of the goal of eradicating dangerous weapons as it could, in the time that was dedicated so far.
for whatever reason, they feel that the time is right to a break in the offensive.
Not the defensive.
True they were “winning”
but there were also many losses, R”L.
Deaths
Critical Injuries (keep daavening)
More traumatized children
More damaged homes
physically and emotionally.
every single neshama is precious.
and one critically injured child is too many by klal yisrael.
the fact that we hold back our fire, to regroup, and to think about what to do next
while we increase
teshuva
tefila
&
tzedaka
makes us WINNERS
…. We Live
Not just “2bhappy”
but,
“2ServeGod&MakeHIMhappy”
Keep the Faith, brothers & sisters…
Thank you “Thinking out loud” for your straight thinking – We all have to realize like you wrote that “every single neshama is precious” and forget about the whole winning and losing thing.
Teshuva, Tefila and Tzedaka are the most powerful weapons for saving yidden and bringing Mashiach Closer.