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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Israel turns down Hamas's hostage release offer

2024-01-22

[GEO.TV] Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday rejected conditions presented by Hamas
Hamas

...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
to end the war and release hostages that would include Israel's complete withdrawal and leaving Hamas in power in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
"In exchange for the release of our hostages, Hamas demands the end of the war, the withdrawal of our forces from Gaza, the release of all [prisoners]," Netanyahu said in a statement.

"I reject outright the terms of surrender of the Hamas," he added.

Good. I was afraid the shrieking, anti-Bibi wing of the prisoner families would bully him into accepting.

A deal brokered in late November by the United States, Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
and Egypt saw the release of more than 100 of the estimated 240 hostages who were taken captive in Gaza during an attack by Hamas holy warriors on Oct. 7, in exchange for the release of 240 Paleostinians held in Israeli prisons.

Since that deal ended Netanyahu has faced mounting pressure to secure the release of the 136 hostages who remain in captivity.

The Times of Israel lays out the details:

The plan, whose complete implementation would take 90 days, would reportedly bring all fighting to an extended halt, during which time the Paleostinian terror group, in the first stage, would free all civilians.

Israel would simultaneously release hundreds of Paleostinian security prisoners, pull out of Gaza’s cities, allow freedom of movement in the Strip, cease drone surveillance over Gaza, and double the amount of aid entering the Hamas-controlled territory.

The next stage would see Hamas release female IDF soldiers and bodies of kidnapped Israelis, as Israel releases more Paleostinian prisoners.

The third phase would have Israel pull back troops to the Gaza border, while Hamas frees the last hostages — soldiers and fighting-age men it considers soldiers.

Egyptian officials told WSJ that there would then be talks about a permanent ceasefire, normalization between Israel and Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
in addition to other Arab countries, and a new process leading to a Paleostinian state — something the current Israeli government is vocally opposed to.

Egyptian officials added that Israeli officials are pushing for a two-week ceasefire instead, and are avoiding talks about a permanent ceasefire.

*Snicker.*

Negotiations on a ceasefire are set to begin in Cairo in the coming days, according to the report.

The Prime Minister’s Office declined to comment.

Though the WSJ report did not indicate what would happen to Hamas in such an agreement, it did note that Hamas’s Gaza leader Yahya Sinwar — the mastermind of the October 7 massacres — and its Doha-based politburo leader Ismail Haniyeh have not spoken in a month, and are at odds over the potential demilitarization of the Strip.

Posted by:Fred

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