It’s amazing how the AP can supply the Jerusalem Post with the information that Hamas will not accept the cease fire in a small item, but cannot put that same information in its main story that goes out over thousands of newswires.
Hamas’s top political chief says his movement will not accept Israel’s demands for a cease-fire and insists the siege on Gaza must be lifted before Hamas will halt rocket attacks.
Khaled Mashaal has asked a gathering of Arab leaders in the Qatari capital on Friday to back Hamas in its demands, to announce a boycott of Israel and cut off any ties with the Jewish state.
Mashaal says Hamas is sticking by its demands that a border openings into the Gaza Strip must be opened immediately before it will stop rocket attacks.
He says Hamas “will not accept Israel’s conditions” for a cease-fire. Israel has demanded a total halt to Hamas rockets and guarantees Hamas cannot rearm.
The AP can, however, include in its main story the call by the UN Secretary General for a unilateral Israeli cease fire. In fact, it titles that story “UN chief urges unilateral Israeli cease-fire.” Just in case you missed the fact that the world is calling on Israel to cease its fire, but not Hamas. And the AP also make sure that it drops the Israeli reasons for refusal down below the third paragraph, knowing full well that most local papers include only the first three to five paragraphs of an AP wire story in their “World News” sections. Take a look at the first three grafs.
The U.N. chief urged Israel Friday to declare a unilateral cease-fire in Gaza, but Israel rebuffed the idea as its diplomats headed for Egypt and the United States in what appeared to be a final push toward a truce.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon floated the idea during a visit to the West Bank on his Mideast mission to try to stop Israel’s three-week-old offensive against Hamas militants who have been firing rockets from Gaza for years.
“I strongly urge Israeli leadership and government to declare a cease-fire unilaterally,” Ban said from Ramallah, the seat of the West Bank government of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, a fierce rival of Hamas. “It’s time to think about a unilateral cease-fire from the Israeli government.”
Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev dismissed the idea.
“I don’t believe that there’s a logical expectation in the international community that Israel unilaterally cease fire while Hamas would continue to target cities, trying to kill our people,” he said.
Interestingly, the AP does not quote Ban on calling on Hamas to cease its fire unilaterally. Nor is there any report of Ban going to Syria to talk to Khaled Mashaal about stopping the rocketing of the Israeli civilian population. Not that I expect him to. The world has never really tried to stop the enemies of the Jews from destroying the Jews, and it never will. That would be why the State of Israel was established.
But the good news is: Hamas’ irredentism is going to allow the IDF to do its job properly this time around. The rockets hit more Israeli civilians today. And they show no signs of stopping. The job isn’t finished.
Yaaayy! Rock on IDF!
No cease fire until every Hamas toad is killed or captured.
Why a ceasefire at all? We don’t need no stinking Hudna! When Hamas sues for peace, with the attendant acceptance of all conditions imposed on it by Israel, then their surrender can be accepted.