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| Sderot mayor ready to talk to Hamas |
| 2008-02-23 |
| The mayor of Sderot, an Israeli town repeatedly targeted by rockets fired from the Gaza Strip, says in order to save Israeli lives he is ready to talk to Hamas - despite the international ban on contact with the militant Palestinian organisation. "I would say to Hamas, let's have a ceasefire, let's stop the rockets for the next 10 years and we will see what happens," said Eli Moyal, the mayor, who is a member of the rightwing Likud party. "For me as a person the most important thing is life and I'm ready to do everything for that. I'm ready to talk to the devil." Last week a child lost a leg in a rocket attack on Sderot. Moyal's first response was to call for the assassination of the Hamas leadership and for Gaza villages to be razed. But now he is ready for a different tactic. His call for talks comes as Israel's blockade on the Hamas-controlled Gaza strip is under international pressure. |
| Posted by:Seafarious |
| #7 Israel holds the Hamas leadership responsible for all rockets fired from Gaza, including those launched by other militant groups. Well, yeah. That's what happens when you're the rulers of a patch of land. If anti-Arab Israelis started launching rockets from Sderot into Gaza, and the Israelis did nothing, it would be proper to hold the Israeli government responsible. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2008-02-23 19:06 |
| #6 gotta blame the central gov. on this one , but the mayor should try the trebuchet throry before negotiating with these pieces of shit. And who by the way gave the town mayor the authority too negotiate with Hamass anyway, this would ahve too be against some Israeli law somewhere |
| Posted by: sinse 2008-02-23 18:08 |
| #5 Ans if Allah is Unwilling? |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2008-02-23 18:03 |
| #4 Just so Moyal is prepared for the other side: "Before Israel dies, it must be humiliated and degraded. Allah willing, before they die, they will experience humiliation and degradation ... Allah willing, we will make them lose their eyes." Khaled Mashal, Hamas leader |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2008-02-23 17:11 |
| #3 Moyal has been at the receiving end of kassams for over 6 years now. Moyal has been an advocate for leveling the Gaza neighborhoods the kassams launch from, has been a true leader by the mere fact that people still live in Sderot, indeed he has tried everything (type sderot in the search) and has got nowhere, but was begged to stay after threatening to resign. Just like I have eaten a -lot- of different foods I have never tried the taste of pig shit, just as Moyal is trying now. More than anything it is a reflection of the national government not doing anything and indeed threatening the citizens of sderot with retaliation if they do something like building a giant trebouchet. Moyal is tired of the BS and I don't blame him one bit because nobody else is doing anything. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2008-02-23 13:33 |
| #2 One addled mayor who sounds as clueless as Olmert, plus "UN officials". There's a quorum of idiocy. It is literally hard to believe one's eyes when one reads what some Israelis are thinking. Here is a guy LITERALLY at the business end of Palestinian malicious violence - and he can only imagine surrender of some sort as a solution. Yikes. |
| Posted by: Verlaine 2008-02-23 11:26 |
| #1 They need to get a 747 rigged for firefighting and drop jello mix on that area of Gaza and watch the locals go crazy from the flies and gelatine. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2008-02-23 01:38 |