Vern
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It was turned down.That's entirely possible. ^^^
Esp. the bolded.
I was agreeing with your comment, just wanting to point out other scenarios.
A bid for frozen assets -- but what will Iran do if the $$ is released ?
Build more weapons to attack Israel ?
Humanitarian purposes ? (Doubtful, imo.)
Here's an article I saw on Yahoo --the full article is take by Yahoo from the UK's Telegraph, but it's behind a paywall :
".... but never mention that Israel has repeatedly offered to fully reinstate all supply lines if Hamas frees its hostages.
Letters: Hamas terrorists care nothing for the suffering they have inflicted on Gazans
SIR – The BBC and other outlets continuously discuss Israel’s cutting off of water, electricity, gas, food and medicine to Gaza, but never mention that Israel has repeatedly offered to fully reinstate all supply lines if Hamas frees its hostages.www.yahoo.com
It appears that for Hamas leaders living in luxury in Qatar, keeping the 199 hostages captive is more important than the wellbeing of their own people."
When Israel withdraws, as in the case of Gaza in 2005, it gets no thanks but is attacked with rockets by terrorists who are committed to its destruction – the same people who butchered Israeli citizens and started this war. When Israel offered 94 per cent of the West Bank to the Palestine Liberation Organization as a separate state, Yasser Arafat turned it down.
So infuriating but true. (Imo)
Re. the red bolded : I didn't know that about Yasser Arafat.
Omo.
The UK link :
Letters: Hamas terrorists care nothing for the suffering they have inflicted on Gazans
Plus: Tory By-election blues; HMRC harassment; straw bale farce; carol culture; and not being Welshwww.telegraph.co.uk
To be certain, since the inception of Israel the stated goal of the PLO, now also Hamas, has been "not one square inch" aka "From the Jordan River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free".
14 May 1948: Israeli Declaration of Independance
15 May 1948: Arab-Israeli War - Morning: Syria, Egypt, Iraq and (Trans)Jordan military forces enter and take control of the Arab areas and attack Jewish Settlements and Israeli Forces. As a direct result of this war - that Israel did not start, the victor (Israel) managed to retain the area set aside for the Jewish State and had won around 60% of the Arab state lands.
A Two-State soloution is the most widely proposed as the "ideal", but if it ever is achieved, I don't expect their neighbours to kick back and be content with it. History has shown time and time again, that they will not be. They were a mere one day old when their neighbours invaded them and got their butts kicked in 1948. I'm not so sure Israel will ever be as willing to be as generous as the were prior to October 7th --- there'll be some hella caveats on anything like this now. Another lovely gift to the Palestinian poeple from Hamas.
