The decision was made at a meeting in Gazoo City, initiated by Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,, to discuss Israel's escalation in attacks on the Gazoo Strip.
Over the last week, Israeli forces have bombarded the coastal enclave, killing 10 Paleostinians including civilians and children. Dozens more were maimed.
Israel's army says it is responding to a barrage of projectiles fired by Islamic fascisti into Israel, which have injured one Israeli in the last week.
Hamas initiated the meeting Saturday, which was attended by representatives of the
Popular Front for the Liberation of Paleostine,... Paleostinian Marxist movement, founded in 1967. It is considered a terrorist organization by more than 30 countries including the U.S., European Union, Australia, Canada, and Antarctica. The PFLP's stated goal is the establishment of a socialist State in Paleostine. They pioneered armed aircraft hijackings in the late 60s and early 70s...
the
Democratic Front for the Liberation of Paleostine... a breakaway faction of the Pöpular Frönt för the Liberation of Paleostine. The are regarded as the most intellectual of Paleostinian fedayeen groups, smoking cheap cigarettes and drawing heavily on Marxist-Leninist theory to explain their crappy lives. They can occasionally be seen strutting through the streets of Paleostine, dressed up like soldiers and lugging firearms, though they seldom manage to hit anything and then usually by accident. This may be because of their habit of wearing black masks that cut off most of their vision. That would also explain their habit of occasionally walking into walls, which is a well-known attribute of those immersed in true understanding of the dialectic...
and several other parties.
Fatah and five other PLO factions did not participate.
Khader Habib, an Islamic Jihad leader, told AFP after the meeting that "everybody confirmed that they respect the national consensus by calming things with the Zionist enemy."
But he said this "depends on the nature of Israeli behavior, and we insist on the need to respond immediately to each escalation by the occupiers."
And Osama al-Haj Ahmed, a Popular Front leader, said "the factions confirmed their commitment to national consensus in order not to give the aggressors any pretext" for attacking.
Hamas already pledged on Wednesday to "to restore calm" in the coastal enclave.
"We confirm that our stance in the government is set on protecting the stability," Hamas front man Taher al-Nunu said in a statement.
"We will work to restore the field conditions that were prevalent over the last few weeks."
And Ismail Haniyeh, the Hamas premier in Gazoo, said he had been making contacts with other factions "with a view to Gazoo avoiding new confrontations with the Israeli occupation."
In particular, he said he had spoken with Ramadan Shallah, the Damascus based chief of Islamic Jihad, which has grabbed credit for many of the projectiles fired on Israel in the past week.
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...back at the buffalo wallow, Tex and his new-found Indian friend were preparing a little surprise for the bandidos...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Friday that Israel had been "subjected to bouts of terror and rocket attacks" and that "we stand ready to act with great force and great determination to put a stop to it."
Friday was calm, but the Israeli army said Paleostinian Islamic fascisti fired two rockets from Gazoo into Israel overnight and damaged a house. No one was injured, the military said.
As Netanyahu spoke on Friday, Defense Minister Ehud Barak toured the Gazoo border with army chief Lieutenant General Benny Gantz saying calm seemed to be returning to the area.
And he indicated that if the rocket attacks stopped, Israel would also halt its strikes into Gazoo.
"We don't intend to let the terror organizations again disturb the order but we will do all we need to to return the [military] activity to the border line itself," he said.
In a visit to Israel this week, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Washington firmly backed Israel's right to respond both to the rocket fire and the Jerusalem bombing, which he described as "repugnant acts."
But he suggested Israel should tread carefully or risk derailing the course of popular unrest sweeping Arab and Mohammedan countries in the Middle East.
Gates pressed Israeli and Paleostinian leaders to take "bold action" for peace despite soaring tensions, saying political upheaval in the region offered an opportunity.
Some Israeli leaders have appeared reluctant to be dragged into another bloody war with Hamas, especially as they lack international support for any new offensive on Gazoo.