Suleiman warns Hamas to release Schalit

[notfullofit]

If ceasefire negotiations will not include the safe return to Israel of IDF soldier Gilad Schalit, held by terrorists in Gaza for almost two years, Israel will embark on a massive operation against Hamas in Gaza, Egyptian intelligence chief Omar Suleiman reportedly conveyed to Hamas's Gaza rulers.

Suleiman is playing an instrumental role in indirect ceasefire negotiations between Hamas and Israel, which have been ongoing for several weeks.

The recent report, by the Lebanese Al Akhbar, also quoted Palestinian sources as saying that the Hamas negotiators, shuttling between Gaza and Cairo, were willing to show some flexibility on the details of the agreement, but that their insistence to have some high profile prisoners released by Israel still stalled an agreement from being achieved.

Sources quoted by Al Akhbar said that according to Suleiman, Israel will carry out "serious attacks" against Hamas and other Palestinian factions in Gaza, unless the ceasefire deal currently being hammered out includes the release of Schalit.

The paper reported that a meeting between Suleiman and Hamas top officials dealt mainly with the option of tying Schalit's release to a general ceasefire.

Hamas "is not interested in keeping Schalit forever," the group's spokesman Ayman Taha said. "If Israel will abide by the resistance's demands, we shall release him forthwith."

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[Fredda Weinberg]

1. Enjoy Armageddon

MENIEH, Lebanon — For two and a half days, Hussein al-Haj Obaid lay on the floor of a darkened warehouse in west Beirut, blindfolded and terrified. Militiamen loyal to Hezbollah had kidnapped him at a checkpoint after killing his nephew right in front of him.

Hussein al-Haj Obaid, a Sunni Muslim, was abducted and tortured by gunmen loyal to Hezbollah, the Shiite militant group. “The blood is boiling here,” he said.
Throughout those awful days, as his kidnappers kicked and punched him, applied electrical shocks to his genitals and insulted him with sectarian taunts, he could hear the chatter of gunfire and the crash of rocket-propelled grenades outside, where Hezbollah and its allies were taking control of the capital.

He returned to this northern village only after family members won his release just over a week ago by threatening the kidnappers with retaliation. By that time Mr. Obaid, a Sunni Muslim, had gained a whole new way of seeing his Shiite countrymen and his native land.

“We cannot go back to how we lived with them before,” he said as he sat with relatives and friends at home here. “The blood is boiling here. Every boy here, his blood is boiling. They push us, they push us, they push us.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/18/world/middleeast/18lebanon.html?hp

[azurnoir]

2. I am sure "some" will

as long as it is an Arab only Armageddon

[Vegasaurus]

4. No one seems to care if Arabs all butcher each other

The world turns a blind eye.

Doesn't that upset you?

[azurnoir]

3. Will a "massive" invasion

get Gilad Shalit back alive? IMHO members of Israels right wing would most likely rather see him a mangled corpse than back home safely as it would be a victory for them.
Something not widely advertised is that Mr Carter also met with Gilad Shalit's parents in Israel.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/974412.html

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3531328,00.html

posted 2 links because of the interesting spin in wording

Ha'aretz says Jimmy Carter isn't ProIsrael

Ynet says Jimmy Carter is Anti-Israel

[oberliner]

5. "If the current situation persists, Shalit will be our guest for many years to come."

Contradictory messages on this topic.

The quote in the subject line is from this article:

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3544706,00.html