Israeli forces begin to withdraw from key Gaza corridor, part of the ceasefire deal with Hamas

Here is one problem some members of Netanyahu cabinet have threatened to leave the coalition if the war does not continue.

Quality people in that cabinet.

Netanyahu would then not have a majority and may need to have an election.

Here is one problem some members of Netanyahu cabinet have threatened to leave the coalition if the war does not continue.

Quality people in that cabinet.

Netanyahu would then not have a majority and may need to have an election.

Problem in the short term is that some of Netanyahu cabinet threaten to leave if the war does not continue.

Need a new election

Worth repeating it seems.

Problem in the short term is that some of Netanyahu cabinet threaten to leave if the war does not continue.

Exactly. He has no plans to end the war. If it winds down in Gaza, he'll escalate in the West Bank.

to preempt the forum shills who blame Arafat for ruining the Oslo Accords and Clintons input I refer to an first hand account by State Department officials who detail the facts of the meetings in "Camp David ";The Tragedy of Errors " written by Robert Malley and Hussein Agha, available for viewing at the New York Review of Books,

August 9 2001

It's up to the terrorist group Hamas to keep their end of the deal, otherwise, Israel will continue eradicating Hamas and its supporters.

The only criminals here are the Israel IDF: over 65.000 killed in the undiscriminated vengeance, 70% of which are innocent children and women, UN says.

This terrible conflict would end the first 24 hours the US administration stops shipping lethal weapons to Israel, but, as we know, there is too much at stake for the US lobbies in Wall Street

Iknowall...had you paid any attention, Hamas offered a ceasefire and hostage release in the first months of the war .

Netanyahu refused,,,as did his hawkish cabinet members.

War could have been over a long time ago but for the Israeli sides demands for the "total eradication of Hamas ", a group Netanyahu helped foster.

Now, how do you eliminate an idea born out of oppression ?

There is a terrifying no man land, a grey area, between decades of Islamic religious fundamentalism, a huge unbridgeable chasm, any form of political diplomacy remains unable to find any tolerant compromise

Hamas. Hezbollah Iran will never tolerate any Jewish state, any western human right driven ideology.

No, not even momentarily a medium moderate half way house between democratic human rights, religious despotism.

I contend that the Mullah despot dictatorship of Iran will lurch sooner or later into another "final solution" a tactical nuclear strike against Israel when the ballistic capability is reached/acquired, a hypersonic glide vehicle, at present a strategic deterrent.

In the hands of Iran Islamic fundamentalism, the ultimate suicide mission.  

This "ceasefire" could be just a charade to stage manage some form of illusionary global display of a humanitarian last roll of the dice

Itsonlyrocknroll....nice rhetoric

Hamas accepts a Jewish state of Israel

Iran has a large number of Jews living in Iran, who could emigrate to Israel, but choose not to .

Iran has a fatwa against using nuclear weapons and does not have any at present.

Iran has some of the top 10 supplies of oil and gas in the world so that might give some an idea of why the USA is "interested "

If you see a travel show by a westerner on Iran you will see people much like ourselves...not some fanatical "Islamic fundamentalists "

America engineered a coup in Iran when the Parliament decided to nationalize the oil fields.

USA and UK installed the Shah...now he was a real sob.

Rocknroll...you sound more frightening in your absurd "Nostrodamous like " predictions and language than anything coming out of Iran

Hezbollah does not recognise the CURRENT state of Israel as many countries do not...eg Saudi Arabia.

Hezbollah not calling for the expulsion of Jews as Israel calls for the expulsion of Arabs.

Yeah...I read more and hyperventilate less.

This "ceasefire" could be just a charade to stage manage some form of illusionary global display of a humanitarian last roll of the dice

True. No one trusts Iran.

The US and Israel are right to stick with the plan of eradicating terrorism in Gaza, relocating the occupying Arabs, and rebuilding Gaza like it should have been rebuilt almost 20 years ago.

"No one trusts Iran "

Really...Iran's major trading partners are China ...big country ,big population, ;India...same as China: Turkey; UAE etc etc.

Get at least some facts right.

Google "Iranian embassies worldwide "....then "foreign embassies in Iran "

Seems to " not trust," in your mind, is to do huge business with the worlds most populous nations and to have diplomatic relations with most of the world

I give up....some posters dont even try to be accurate.

Check under your bed tonight....might be an Iranian hiding there.