Sunday, July 27, 2014

Israel has to make concessions. Ending the killing isn't enough.

Israel must set borders and remove settlements.

By Isabel Kershner and Ben Hubbard

...On Sunday afternoon, (click here) Hamas backtracked on its earlier rejection of the temporary cease-fire and said the “resistance groups” would agree to a 24-hour truce starting at 2 p.m. local time. A Hamas official in Gaza released a statement saying that Hamas’s decision came “in response to the intervention of the United Nations” and out of understanding for the people of Gaza who are preparing for Eid al-Fitr, the holiday that ends Ramadan. There was no immediate response to Hamas’s statement from Israel....