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Egypt brokers another truce to halt Gaza fighting
2011-10-31
(Ma'an) -- Egyptian officials have secured a truce to halt hostilities between Gazoo faceless myrmidons and Israel, Israeli TV said on Sunday.

Israel's channel 10 said the truce would begin at 10 p.m. Sunday.

A high-ranking Egyptian official, who was not named, said Israel would not be able to carry out a major military operation in the Gazoo Strip, as Egypt will not turn a blind eye to such actions, the TV channel's website said.

Israeli Arclight airstrikes on the Gazoo Strip killed 9 Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the liquidation of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
fighters on Saturday, amid a barrage of rockets from Gazoo that killed one Israeli.

A previous truce, also brokered by Egypt, started 6 a.m. Sunday, but was followed by rocket fire and an Israeli Arclight airstrike that killed a member of DFLP's armed wing in Rafah.
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#3  Would that be "Egypt brokers time for Pally re-group temporarily halting Gaza fighting"
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2011-10-31 18:42  

#2  Maybe it would be better if the idiots had to broker their own truce instead of hiding behind the Egyptians.

"Looks like our latest rocket strikes were a bad idea again, Mahmoud."

"Well, call the Egyptians. It's better that they arrange another temporary rearming ceasefire than for us to admit it was stoopid."
Posted by: gorb   2011-10-31 11:37  

#1  Another truce, another grad.
Posted by: gr(o)mgoru   2011-10-31 05:25  

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