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...guarantee that the Egyptian border will be sealed off so that Hamas can no longer smuggle in Iranian-made rockets to shoot at Israeli cities. So far, Israel and Hamas have failed to agree on the length of the ceasefire proposed by the Egyptians. Israel wants a 10-year truce, while Hamas is insisting on a single year, this well-placed Hamas source told TIME...
...north of Gaza City where they had taken shelter, are likely to become the dominant image of the war. Israeli politicians and generals know that the total elimination of Hamas' entrenched military command could take weeks; it might be altogether impossible. The more realistic outcome is an unsatisfactory, brokered truce that leaves Hamas wounded but alive and able to regenerate - and Israel only temporarily safe from attack...
...Hamas says it will agree to a truce if Israel retreats from Gaza and loosens the economic choke hold that has strangled the 1.5 million Palestinians who live on the sliver of land along the Mediterranean. After weeks of global outrage over the unfolding humanitarian disaster in Gaza, any mediator - France, the European Union, Turkey and Egypt are all auditioning for the role - will insist that Israel end its 18-month blockade...
...Jewish state are now recoiling from what they see as the slaughter of fellow Arabs in Gaza. In Egypt, pro-Gaza protests turned into thinly veiled attacks on President Hosni Mubarak's rule, which has helped maintain the blockade of Gaza. The pressure may force Mubarak to support a truce that entails opening the Egypt-Gaza border as Hamas demands, but he is unlikely to soften his position on the Palestinian group that maintains links with Egyptian Islamists as well as the Iranian regime...
...posse of diplomats charging between Cairo and Jerusalem, an immediate end to the carnage in Gaza remains unlikely. Instead, Hamas and Israel are bracing for another deadly round. No matter how many Palestinian families are destroyed in the crossfire, neither combatant is ready to accept the other's truce terms. Hamas leaders in Syria on Thursday announced their rejection of a Franco-Egyptian plan for a cease-fire...