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Title: | Amos Harel Dhimmitude | |||
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| Name: | Joseph . E | | |||
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| City: | Givatayim | State: | Israel | | |
| How many people remember that there was, in fact, such a `ceasefire` with Hamas-controlled Gaza only one year ago ? How many people remember what occurred during that `ceasefire`? Well, the people in Sderot and the western Negev remember. Even if no one else does. Let us refresh out memories. From November 26, 2006, until May 15, 2007, a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel went on for almost six months. One cannot ignore the statement made by Hamas five days before the ceasefire: "Hamas`s military wing will stop the rocket fire when residents evacuate the city of Sderot." (from November 21, 2006) During that `ceasefire`, Gazans launched 315 missiles targeted at Sderot and the western Negev, according to an IDF spokesman. There was not one IDF response to the rocket fire during that ceasefire period. During a recent presentation at the IDC in Herzliya, to the cream of the crop of students of Israeli intelligence, the audience reacted with disbelief when they heard that there already was a `ceasefire` last year, and that it wasn`t kept in the slightest. Mecca Agreement During that `ceasefire` period, on February 27, 2007, there was an agreement reached between the Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal and Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen). The agreement took place three months after the ceasefire went into effect; after 160 missiles had been fired at Israel since the day the `ceasefire` commenced. Mashaal promised, in Moscow, to stop the Kassam rocket attacks. Two days later, seven missiles were launched from the Gaza Strip towards Israel. The question begs to be asked: What kind of Western democracy in the world would allow for a one-sided ceasefire? What other state would allow for a rocket to explode within its territory? Morte at http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/7934 |
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