Word: truceful
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...last Thursday, Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni unabashedly asserted, “There is no humanitarian crisis in the Strip, and therefore there is no need for a humanitarian truce.” That Livni arrived at this conclusion—despite reports from the United Nations, the Red Cross, Amnesty International, Oxfam International and Human Rights Watch—reflects the irreverence with which the Israeli government regards Palestinian lives. Indeed, there is no other explanation. How else could a week of aerial bombing of such a densely populated city and intentionally starving its citizens be justified...
...argument that Israel's incursion will give the nation an upper hand in any future talks - and allow it to dictate the terms of a new cease-fire - doesn't really wash. Any new truce will be brokered by third parties; while U.S. President-elect Barack Obama chooses to remain silent, France's Nicolas Sarkozy is offering himself for the role. That alone means Israel won't have everything its way. The international outcry over the humanitarian tragedy unfolding in Gaza means the broker will insist that Israel loosen the economic shackles as well as withdraw troops. And when...
...accept a state on the June 4 line with Jerusalem as capital, real sovereignty and full right of return for refugees, but without recognizing Israel." -Defining Hamas's position as being amenable to a long-term truce whereby Palestinians and Israelis would live side by side, though he reiterated that Hamas would not formally recognize the Jewish state...
...tens of thousands of reserve troops. The purpose of Operation Cast Lead remains a durable cease-fire that ends rocket fire from Gaza into southern Israel, but Israeli officials believe that to reach such an agreement, Hamas must be pummeled onto the ropes, its leaders forced to seek a truce to ensure its survival and continued political control over Gaza...
...there, the purpose of its ground invasion is to make Hamas commanders believe that even their goal of surviving and remaining in control of Gaza after Operation Cast Lead is slipping beyond their grasp, in the hope that this will make the organization more likely to accept Israel's truce terms. The armed "negotiation" over Gaza's next cease-fire, then, has entered what will likely be its most intense phase...