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| SecState Rice says truce will have to end hamas rockets |
| 2009-01-07 |
| US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told the Security Council that the United States, Israel's closest ally, understands "the urgency of an end to the fighting" and is working around the clock to achieve it. "In this regard, we are pleased by, and wish to commend, the statement of the president of Egypt and to follow up on that initiative," Rice said, referring to a cease-fire plan proposed by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and French President Nicolas Sarkozy. Rice cautioned, however, that any solution must include an end to Hamas rocket and mortar attacks on southern Israel, she should have said all rocket attacks because that wording allows so called splinter groups to fire off rockets the opening of all borders in Gaza, hope this means border crossings, not borders and an end to arms smuggling into the Palestinian territory. |
| Posted by:mhw |
| #6 your points are correct, MHW |
| Posted by: liberalhawk 2009-01-07 17:26 |
| #5 She's worthless, she's always been worthless except as a 'token' of Bush's public image. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2009-01-07 16:12 |
| #4 It seems Hamas understands the diff between 'border' and 'border crossings' better than our Sec of State. -------------from a Haaretz article-------- Osama Hamdan, a Hamas representative in Lebanon close to the group's leadership in Syria, told al-Jazeera television that Hamas would not accept any initiative that does not include the withdrawal of the Israeli army from Gaza and the opening of all of the territory's border crossings. |
| Posted by: mhw 2009-01-07 14:41 |
| #3 And what, exactly, is the point of having a truce if one side is still determined to eradicate the other? Wars end when either both sides say enough ( Iran vs Iraq, 1980s) or when one side is crushed ( US vs Japan, WWII). Any kind of truce or hudna is simply postponing the day of reckoning. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2009-01-07 11:50 |
| #2 she should have said all rocket attacks because that wording allows so called splinter groups to fire off rockets Very good point. Hamas can just hand the keys to PIJ, or PFLP, or teh Palestinian Centre for Human Rights - and then look all innocent when the mortars take flight. |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2009-01-07 09:41 |
| #1 The erudite & intelligent Mrs Rice. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2009-01-07 04:44 |