Gaza Ceasefire Hopes Rise After Hamas Abandons Key Demands

Sunday, March 17, 2024

Israeli negotiators are expected to arrive in Qatar on Sunday amid intense new efforts to bring the war in Gaza to at least a temporary halt, after Hamas abandoned key ceasefire demands last week following a series of setbacks.

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"In recent days, the militant organisation has been disappointed by the failure of its calls for a wave of protest during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, angered by the appointment without consultation of a new prime minister by the Palestinian Authority (PA) and suffered the possible death of a key military commander in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza.

On Friday, Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, said he had approved plans for a military assault on Rafah, Gaza's southernmost city, which is Hamas's last main stronghold but also now home to more than 1 million people, mostly displaced from elsewhere in the territory.

The developments have weakened Hamas's negotiating position even as casualties continue to rise in Gaza and global outrage continues to grow."

Peace in our time? (Neville Chamberlain joke)

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2024-03-16 06:43 PM | Reply

Peace in our time? (Neville Chamberlain joke) #1 | Posted by Corky

Lol! No. Hamas is just buying time to rearm so they can repeat the cycle.

Hopefully any pause will give Palestinian civilians who want no part of this the opportunity to flee. Many of them must recognize by now that the only value their lives have to Hamas is as a human sacrifice to prove the inhumanity of the Jews.

#2 | Posted by censored at 2024-03-16 07:02 PM | Reply

"opportunity to flee."

Opportunity?

Something like 90% of Gazans have already fled their homes.

#3 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-03-16 07:05 PM | Reply

Hopefully any pause will give Palestinian civilians who want no part of this the opportunity to flee.

Where would they flee to?

You sheltering Palestinians?

#4 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-03-16 07:06 PM | Reply

90% of Gazans have already fled their homes.

Mostly in order to avoid the bombs Israel has been dropping on Gaza since October.

Unfortunately for them, most Palestinians are too poor to go anywhere and the neighboring countries want nothing to do with them.

#5 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-03-16 07:10 PM | Reply

Many of them must recognize by now that the only value their lives have to Hamas is as a human sacrifice

At least that's something.

The rest of the world has shown they view Palestinian lives as absolutely worthless.

You more than most.

#6 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-03-16 07:13 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Also reminds me of the Hamas offer of a temporary cease-fire ("hudna"):

"In January 2004, senior Hamas leader [...] offered a 10-year hudna in return for complete withdrawal from all territories captured in the Six-Day War, the establishment of a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza, and the "right of return" for all Palestinian refugees. Rantissi gave interviews with European reporters and said the hudna was limited to ten years and represented a decision by the movement because it was "difficult to liberate all our land at this stage; the hudna would however not signal a recognition of the state of Israel.""

Basically demanding everything in return for a promise not to eradicate Israel for ten whole years. LOL! Jews have been around for awhile, so that ten years probably didn't strike them as a particularly meaningful offer. Gotta wake up a bit earlier in the day to out-haggle the J-O-Os.

#7 | Posted by censored at 2024-03-16 07:14 PM | Reply

Gotta wake up a bit earlier in the day to out-haggle the J-O-Os.

Bet that's a laugh riot at the Charlottesville tiki club.

#8 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-03-16 07:32 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

It's Tiki Bar.Tiki Bar. Who the f says Tiki club??

#9 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-03-16 09:53 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

You sheltering Palestinians?

#4 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-03-16 07:06 PM | Reply | Flag:

You sheltering any illegal immigrants?

#10 | Posted by globriel at 2024-03-17 10:33 AM | Reply

Welp. Sunday came and went in Qatar. Hope they figured it out!

#11 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-03-17 08:48 PM | Reply

The rest of the world has shown they view Palestinian lives as absolutely worthless.
- Clownhut

It was Hamas's primary duty to care about Palestinian lives, it's failure to do so isn't the rest of the world's fault.

If your government doesn't take care of your interests, why would anyone one else.

What could anyone do?

Hamas FA, and unfortunately the citizens are FO.

#12 | Posted by oneironaut at 2024-03-17 09:00 PM | Reply

"20 years ago someone somewhere did something, and therefore I am sssssssoooooo happy the IDF is sniping disabled people from half a mile away. It makes my dick hard. I-------- to their snuff clips on tik tok."

#7 | POSTED BY CENSORED

Amazing.

#13 | Posted by tres_flechas at 2024-03-17 10:21 PM | Reply

and the neighboring countries want nothing to do with them.

#5 | POSTED BY CLOWNSHACK AT 2024-03-16 07:10 PM | FLAG:

I wonder why that is.

...

#14 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2024-03-18 11:34 AM | Reply

I'm betting it's because Allah hates Palestinians.

#15 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2024-03-18 11:35 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

God hates Nazis, right?

#16 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-03-18 08:18 PM | Reply

and the neighboring countries want nothing to do with them.
#5 | POSTED BY CLOWNSHACK

I wonder why that is.
#14 | POSTED BY SITZKRIEG

Same reason nobody wanted Jews fleeing the Holocaust.

#17 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-03-18 08:24 PM | Reply

Probably why they stuck them all in the Middle East, called it Israel, and funded their welfare nation.

#18 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-03-18 08:44 PM | Reply

Humans in groups are like chickens, they peck to death the weak in enclosed spaces.

Animal biology.

#19 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2024-03-19 12:20 AM | Reply

"Same reason nobody wanted Jews fleeing the Holocaust."

Except the Brits. They even gave them some land.

Additionally, unlike the Palestinians, the Jews weren't really in to overthrowing governments. Like the Palestinians in Jordan.

#20 | Posted by madbomber at 2024-03-19 08:12 AM | Reply

"Except the Brits. They even gave them some land."

Huh?

#21 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-03-19 08:22 AM | Reply

"the Jews weren't really in to overthrowing governments."

Please stop lying.

The British administrative headquarters for Mandatory Palestine, housed in the southern wing[1] of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, were bombed in a terrorist attack[2][3] on July 22, 1946, by the militant right-wing[4] Zionist underground organization Irgun during the Jewish insurgency.[5][6][7] 91 people of various nationalities were killed, including Arabs, Britons and Jews, and 46 were injured.[8]
en.m.wikipedia.org

#22 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-03-19 08:25 AM | Reply

At the events to mark the 60th anniversary of the attack, Benjamin Netanyahu, then chairman of Likud and Leader of the Opposition in the Knesset, opined that the bombing was a legitimate act with a military target, distinguishing it from an act of terror intended to harm civilians."[35]

#23 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-03-19 08:29 AM | Reply

Don't forget.

They killed Jesus.

#24 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2024-03-19 09:53 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"Huh?"

Great Britain inherited the region after the fall of the Ottoman empire.

#25 | Posted by madbomber at 2024-03-19 10:05 AM | Reply

#22

So...funny thing. After the attack, the bombing was widely condemned by Israelis, including Zionists. Not to mention the global community. The group who carried it out was and still is regarded as everything from a terrorist organization to a gang of thugs.

#26 | Posted by madbomber at 2024-03-19 10:17 AM | Reply

Contrast that with the October 7th attacks, which were overwhelmingly supported by Palestinians.

Not that the two are the same exactly. The attack on the King Davis Hotel was an attack on the government of Mandatory Palestine. October 7th was an attack on civilians.

#27 | Posted by madbomber at 2024-03-19 10:19 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Additionally, unlike the Palestinians, the Jews weren't really in to overthrowing governments. Like the Palestinians in Jordan.

#20 | POSTED BY MADBOMBER

What are you talking about? They literally overthrew the Palestinian government in the late 90's and early 2000's by funding the opposition party called Hamas. They knew Hamas was more dangerous and they didn't care.

#28 | Posted by Sycophant at 2024-03-19 10:41 AM | Reply

Qatar funded Hamas. It wasn't Israeli money.

#29 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2024-03-19 11:10 AM | Reply

Israel made a strategic mistake in allowing the above board transfers, but could not do anything about the back channel Qatari funding of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam brigades that fought against Fatah in the Brother's War in 2006.

#30 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2024-03-19 11:11 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1