Hamas: Israel Will Cave to Demands of Shalit Deal

Hamas: Israel Will Cave to Demands of Shalit Deal
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12/08/2009 A Hamas official on Wednesday said Israel will cave to the demands the Islamic resistance group has made in order to release captured Israeli occupation soldier Gilad Shalit.

Mohammed al-Ghoul, the Hamas minister for prisoners' affairs, said "the Israeli occupation will soon surrender to the conditions that we have outlined for the release of Gilad Shalit."

According to al-Ghoul, Israel will release the Palestinian detainees whose names appear on a list Hamas has passed to Egyptian officials. The list includes a number of detainees serving life sentences, as well as women, children, and some elderly inmates.

Al-Ghoul vowed that without these conditions being met, there will be no deal for Shalit.

Earlier Wednesday, the London-based Arabic daily Asharq al-Awsat reported that Israel and Hamas have made progress in Egyptian-mediated talks for a prisoner swap involving Shalit.

Though the progress was not described as dramatic, the report said that the most encouraging development is Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's agreement to renew talks from the exact same point at which they were discontinued during the latter stages of Ehud Olmert's term in office.

In addition, Hamas is said to have softened its position regarding the relocation of some prisoners to the Gaza Strip rather than repatriating them to their homes in the occupied West Bank, according to Asharq al-Awsat. The move comes after the idea was broached among Hamas prisoners who are believed to be candidates that would be included in a swap.

Senior Egyptian security officials will visit Damascus this week for talks with Hamas leaders on a prisoner exchange, the Lebanese daily Al-Akhbar reported Tuesday. Egyptian-mediated talks, currently held under a heavy news blackout, have greatly intensified in recent weeks.

Netanyahu told officials recently that he is trying hard to bring Shalit home. If a deal for Shalit is struck, Netanyahu will have to invest even greater efforts in persuading his political partners on the right to approve the release of around 450 detainees, most of whom were involved in major attacks that took the lives of Israeli soldiers and settlers.

Gaza-based Hamas delegates, headed by Mahmoud al-Zahar, are already in Cairo. The Egyptian media have reported that the delegation is discussing a deal for Shalit with the Egyptians, although this has been denied officially. Netanyahu's envoy to the Shalit talks, Haggai Hadas, is also in Cairo.

Hamas said its delegation seeks to discuss resuming reconciliation talks with its Palestinian rival, Fatah, and has nothing to do with the talks on Shalit.

According to Al-Akhbar, the Egyptian delegation will include Mohammed Ibrahim, the deputy of top negotiator Omar Suleiman.

The Egyptian delegation is also set to visit the Palestinian territories to try to remove obstacles to closing a deal. But Egyptian sources say a deal is not imminent and "political decisions and major concessions are required by both sides," the paper said.

Zahar is also expected to head for Damascus soon to meet with the leader of Hamas' politburo, Khaled Mashaal, and other senior Hamas officials. Zahar said a few days ago that Hamas had not submitted a new list of prisoners to Egypt in place of an earlier list of 450 names.

Hamas reportedly expects Israel to soften its position and allow some of those intended for release to go home to the West Bank rather than be deported. Israel has so far agreed to release only 325 of the detainees on Hamas' list and wants dozens of them to be exiled.

SHALIT CAMPAING: NO INFORMATION ON PROGRESS

Meanwhile, in response to reports of alleged progress in talks, the headquarters for the campaign for the release of Shalit said "We have no reason to believe that the recent reports on a deal for the release of Gilad Shalit are true."

Almost every report on progress in talks for a prisoner exchange deal was followed by a conflicting report.

The campaign's head, Shimshon Libman told Ynet, "We read the reports, and hear what is being said, but we have no indication or reason to believe they are true. As far as we know, and based on past experience, these are speculations in the Arab media or Hamas or Egyptian spins serving their interests."

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Spreading Zionist Rumors: Is Hamas About to be Fooled, Again, by the Pharaoh? TONY Almost Certain, the Answer is Yes!

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Tony brought his brand new Bombshell from Al-Manar, not from its Zionist Source: Haaretz He Preyed:

Is Hamas About to be Fooled, Again, by the Pharaoh?

TONY Almost Certain, His Answer is Yes!

How come he is Almost certain?

I am watching Ossama Hamdan (Hamas) and my old friend Salah Salah (Independent Ex-PFLP) on anb Channel. When asked about Shalit Imminent Transfer Deal Hamdan said than an Egyptian jornalist phoned him and said that the deal shall be excuted in 4 hours at Rafah crossing, Hamdan joked: Well go there and wait, but et could be 4 moths, may be 4 years.

Hamdan confirmed that Shalit release has nothing to do with lifting the Siege.

But Tony is almost certain, because Hamas Leaders are Habilas, or because he has well-reasoned and informed, especialy with Sryian and Zionist Affairs.

Friday, June 26, 2009

Is Hamas About to be Fooled, Again, by the Pharaoh? I am Almost Certain, the Answer is Yes!

Shalit Transfer to Egypt Imminent as Part of US Initiative

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"26/06/2009 Captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit will be transferred to Egypt within a few days as part of a swap deal with Hamas, Haaretz quoted European diplomatic sources as saying Thursday. The move is part of a new United States initiative that includes Egyptian and Syrian efforts with Hamas, internal Palestinian reconciliation and Israel's opening of the Gaza crossings.

According to the Israeli daily, a reliable European source said this Egyptian-brokered agreement was reached two days ago. A Palestinian source confirmed the report last night but officials in Tel Aviv denied any knowledge of it.

The idea to transfer Shalit to Egypt in exchange for the release of Palestinian women, teens, cabinet ministers and parliamentarians being held in Israeli prisons was raised about a year ago during a visit by former U.S. president Jimmy Carter to Damascus, occupied Jerusalem and Gaza. Apparently Carter raised it again on his visit earlier this month, during which he met Noam Shalit, Gilad's father.

According to the plan Shalit will be entrusted to Egyptian intelligence

[How can the Hamas fools fall for this? Egyptian "intelligence" is inseparable from the Mossad. Might as well give him directly to the Mossad and say that, "Hamas trusts the goodwill of the Mossad!" What fools!] , and his parents will be allowed to visit him. He will be returned to Israel after an agreement is reached regarding the list of Hamas detainees to be released that was previously submitted to the cabinet.

The European source said Shalit's transfer to Egypt was the first stage of the Egyptian-brokered agreement hammered out between Fatah, Hamas and other Palestinian factions, in coordination with the U.S. and with Syria's support.

The deal would put the Gaza Strip under the leadership of a joint committee subordinate to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas......

Israel this week freed Palestinian Legislative Council Speaker and Hamas member Aziz Dweik after three years in prison.[I am sure that this was a part of the deal]....."

# posted by Tony : 8:00 PM