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neoconn

(185 posts)
Mon Jan 22, 2024, 12:46 PM Jan 2024

How Israel has repeatedly rejected Hamas truce offers

A timeline of Hamas truce proposals:

1988: Just one year after the group was founded, Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Zahar met the late top Israeli officials Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres, and proposed that Israel withdraw from the 1967-occupied territories in exchange for a truce. This was before Hamas had built its armed wing, the Qassam Brigades. Also, in 1988, Hamas founder Sheikh Ahmad Yasin himself indicated a willingness to negotiate with Israel under the condition that it “first acknowledge the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination and right of return to their land”.
1994: Hamas offered a truce to Israel after the abduction and killing of Israeli soldier Nachshon Wachsman. A year earlier, the Palestinian Authority (PA) had accepted the proposal of a Palestinian state comprised of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem. Hamas agreed to that proposal.
1995: Hamas again proposed a 10-year truce based on the same condition of Israeli withdrawal from occupied territories.
1996: In March, after Israel assassinated Hamas military leader Yahya Ayyash in January, the movement offered a ceasefire.
1997: September: Days before Israel attempted to assassinate Hamas political leader Khaled Meshaal in the Jordanian capital, Amman, the movement offered Israel a 10-year truce. October: After his release from Israeli prison, Hamas founder Yasin renewed the call for a ceasefire. November: Hamas again proposed a truce. The Qassam Brigades said attacks against Israeli civilians would stop if Israel stopped targeting Palestinian civilians.
1999: Yasin made another ceasefire offer provided Israel withdrew from the 1967 territories. In a letter to European diplomats, Hamas offered to cease all hostilities in exchange for Israeli withdrawal, evacuation of settlements, and release of Palestinian prisoners.

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/1/22/how-israel-has-repeatedly-rejected-hamas-truce-offers

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How Israel has repeatedly rejected Hamas truce offers (Original Post) neoconn Jan 2024 OP
Such an easy time to be useful idiots. Richard D Jan 2024 #1
and virtually none since Hamas actually took power ... stopdiggin Jan 2024 #2
No truce with terrorists The Mouth Jan 2024 #3

Richard D

(8,779 posts)
1. Such an easy time to be useful idiots.
Mon Jan 22, 2024, 01:14 PM
Jan 2024

Hamas leader Khaled Mashal: "We reject the two-state solution idea. Our goal is clear, a Palestinian state from the river to the sea, from north to south.”

Hamas has one goal: To wipe Israel off the map.


stopdiggin

(11,377 posts)
2. and virtually none since Hamas actually took power ...
Mon Jan 22, 2024, 01:22 PM
Jan 2024

and that's if you took any of the above at face value
(which would make you dangerously credulous)

The Mouth

(3,164 posts)
3. No truce with terrorists
Mon Jan 22, 2024, 04:07 PM
Jan 2024

Return every hostage alive and turn over every terrorist for justice and *then* maybe start talking.

"1999: Yasin made another ceasefire offer provided Israel withdrew from the 1967 territories". Like, *no*, anyone who thinks there is any chance of that happening is too stupid to live.

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