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| Israel and Hamas ceasefire begins | | 2008-06-18 23:26:40 | | A ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza has begun, despite a last minute flurry of cross-border attacks.Under the terms of the truce, Israel will ease its blockade on Gaza and talks to release an Israeli soldier held by Hamas are expected to resume.Israeli PM, Ehud Olmert, has warned that the truce, which started at 0600 (0300 GMT), will be fragile.At least 40 rockets and mortars were fired from Gaza at Israel on Wednesday and Israel carried out air strikes.Another militant group, Islamic Jihad, who lost several members to Israeli air strikes in recent days, claimed responsibility for some of the attacks.Key questionsJust an hour before the truce came into effect, an Israeli missile strike killed one Palestinian gunman and wounded another three near Gaza's border fence.The key questions, says the BBC's Aleem Maqbool in Gaza, are: * Will Hamas be able to keep control over all of the disparate militant groups that fire rocket over the border? * Will those groups be able to sho | | By: A Pakistan News | | |
| | Good News: Sadr to Extend Ceasefire? | | 2008-02-21 15:11:19 | | Sources tell Reuters that "powerful Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr is expected to extend a six-month ceasefire by his Mehdi Army militia."This is great news. Moqtada al-Sadr's peacefire has been one of the reasons the surge has had such military success.If he doesn't extend the ceasefireIf Sadr decides to end the ceasefire, contrary to Reuter's anonymous source's beliefs, the effect could be devastating.Shiite on Shiite violence would flare up, as would Shiite on Sunni. New chaos would only slow the already snail-paced political action.But why would Sadr want to reextend the truce?A couple of reasons:1. The U.S.The United States has kept up pressure militarily and politically to hold Sadr down. The surge was one of the key reasons the Shiite cleric called for the ceasefire; once it began winding down, Sadr could have expected to be able to end his truce and not have to worry about too many Americans. There was a change: Defense secretary Robert Gates came out last month and said troop | | By: Thoughts on the World | | |
| | Ceasefire? | | 2007-07-09 23:55:20 | | No I’m not talking about the ceasefire declaration required by the Philippine Government for the resumption of the peacetalks with the CPP-NPA-NDF. Yesterday, a brief article came up in Sun.Star Daily Cebu’s Lifestyle Section calling for a ceasefire between Tommy Osmena and Gwen Garcia.
I will not add anything new here. My latest sentiment was encapsulated in an answer to a comment by a certain miss Mary Fernandez in a previous entry in this blog:
I am taking no side in their present conflict as there are a lot of deeper issues, conflicting material interests and other dimensions than what meets the eye.
But a ceasefire? Hell, no. I am now convinced that there is no need for them to make amends. Each arguement they release is a step towards improving the province and the city. [Please refer to “Gwen and Tom’s Business.”]
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| Ceasefire | | 2007-01-29 23:33:00 | | Hamas, Fatah agree ceasefire: ministerGAZA (Reuters) - Rival Palestinian factions agreed a ceasefire in Gaza effective from 3 a.m. (0100 GMT) on Tuesday, Palestinian Foreign Minister Mahmoud al-Zahar said. Zahar, speaking after talks between Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh ofHamas and a senior aide to President Mahmoud Abbas, of Fatah, said the two sideshad agreed to take all gunmen off the streets of Gaza and remove checkpoints.Peace at last. Peace is the only way forward. Fighting will get everyone nowhere. | | By: Thoughts on the World | | |
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