The US “bridging proposal” aimed at finalizing a hostages-for-ceasefire deal in the coming week does not address Israel’s key demands for an ongoing presence along the Gaza-Egypt border and a mechanism to prevent the return of armed Hamas forces to northern Gaza, according to Hebrew media reports.
Negotiations between the US and Israel are set to continue in Cairo on Sunday, with Egypt and Qatar expected to press Hamas to accept the deal only if Israel and the US agree on the two key issues. However, Hamas has made it clear that it will not agree to a deal that accommodates these demands.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to hold a crucial discussion with Israel’s negotiators and security chiefs on Sunday, ahead of talks with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Netanyahu’s office expressed “cautious optimism” about the possibility of advancing a deal, but emphasized that Hamas must remove its opposition to the US proposal.
The US proposal includes components acceptable to Israel, such as the release of 30 women, elderly, and sick hostages in the first phase of the deal, and the freeing of Palestinian security prisoners in exchange for hostages. However, the deal’s success hinges on Hamas’s acceptance, which remains far from certain.
The negotiations aim to finalize a deal by the end of the week, with President Joe Biden and US officials expressing guarded optimism about the progress while stressing that obstacles remain.
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The whole idea of allowing murderers to remain free after the hostages have been released not only makes no sense, but allowing them to remain free is the cause for Hamas taking hostages in the first place. After Shalit was freed Israel should have gone about and taken every one of them back into custody as they had not yet finished their sentences. This would have both gotten dangerous terrorists off the streets and taught Hamas that their idea that Israel would just allow their terrorists to live their lives as free men was incredibly naive, if not outright stupid. Yet Israel allows these terrorists to stay free and go back to their terrorist activity. Even from a legal standpoint a contract to do something illegal is void and demanding ransom to release a person who was kidnapped is illegal, so the deal is void. The only explanation for this is the pousuk the gemora in Gitten brings about why Rav Yochonon ben Zakai didn’t request something of the Roman general that it seemed obvious that he should have משיב חכמים אחור ודעתם ישכל
Don’t worry. By next February, under the WOKE Democrats, expect that the United States will be demanding not only a cease fire, but that Israel release all Arab prisoners without expecting anything in return, and closing down all settlements built beyond the 1947 partition, and probably arresting Americans who send money to Palestine to support the Zionist colonizers.
Knowing there is a good chance that they will attain victory without firing a shot, why should the Palestinians make any concessions to the Israelis? Did the Taliban make concessions to the democratically elected Afghani government – no, they waited for the peace loving Democrats do turn the government over without firing a shot.
The LUBAVITCHER REBBE warned very strongly against the “Camp David” accords.
He said that if the Sinai was given up (besides for the oil fields which Israel afterwards paid the Egyptians millions to buy that oil) that terrorists & weapons will come in from the Sinai.
Unfortunately most people felt that the
“PEACE” was worth it & we now see that along the Egyptians were allowing (& were paid by Iran for) the smuggling of Terrorists & weapons through the tunnels from Sinai.
Hopefully Israel will not cave in CH”V & give up control of the area at the Egyptian border.
Ot must be only a one for one exchange. Israel must shout this load and clear so all the ceasefire now crowds and even some of the hostage families realize that Hamas will never let all the hostages out. And there is no way Israel can keep releasing hundred of killers. One killer for hostage must be the ratio. Time to set a new precedent.