{"id":3917,"date":"2014-08-08T16:16:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-08T13:16:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-11-11T12:43:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T10:43:07","slug":"epalestine-mme-analysis-reaction-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/2014\/08\/epalestine-mme-analysis-reaction-to\/","title":{"rendered":"MME: Analysis: Reaction to Israel-Hamas ceasefire collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Middle East Eye<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\">Analysis: Reaction to Israel-Hamas ceasefire collapse<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/topics\/gazaunderattack\">#GazaUnderAttack<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Analysts say that Gaza has bled too much to accept an easy truce with Israel, but fear this will usher in a &#8220;horrendous tragedy&#8221; that will further compound Palestinian suffering<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The sheer use of the word &#8216;ceasefire&#8217; is insulting. It depicts an artificial symmetry that the Palestinians have fell for, even though reality on the ground is totally contrary.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>For a fragile, non-representative, Palestinian unity delegation to be engaged in &#8216;ceasefire&#8217; negotiations with their military occupier (it means little if done directly or through intermediaries) sets up Palestinians for an Oslo-like phase, where, no matter what is agreed, the Palestinian side will be signing away rights that have been stripped from them by Israel for decades.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>These rights, first among them protection, should be secured by Third States under their obligations toward the Fourth Geneva Convention, without the need for &#8216;resistance&#8217; or &#8216;ceasefire&#8217; talks.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>A &#8216;ceasefire&#8217; simply reinforces the false impression that there is some hint of symmetry between Palestine and Israel. There is not! Furthermore, to be conducting these &#8216;ceasefire&#8217; talks in the capital of a country that participates in the siege of the Gaza Strip should be an embarrassment to every member of the Palestinian negotiating team, first among them Hamas.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>~Sam Bahour<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hashtag\/gaza?source=feed_text&amp;story_id=797383666959163\"><span class=\"\">\u202a<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/experts-react-israel-hamas-ceasefire-collapse-1742870699\">http:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/experts-react-israel-hamas-ceasefire-collapse-1742870699<\/a><\/p>\n<p>_____________________________________<\/p>\n<p>Everything about this list:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/lists.riseup.net\/www\/info\/epalestine<\/p>\n<p>To subscribe, send mail to:<\/p>\n<p>epalestine-subscribe@lists.riseup.net<\/p>\n<p>To unsubscribe, send mail to:<\/p>\n<p>epalestine-unsubscribe@lists.riseup.net<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Middle East Eye Analysis: Reaction to Israel-Hamas ceasefire collapse #GazaUnderAttack \u00a0 Analysts say that Gaza has bled too much to accept an easy truce with Israel, but fear this will usher in a &#8220;horrendous tragedy&#8221; that will further compound Palestinian suffering &#8220;The sheer use of the word &#8216;ceasefire&#8217; is insulting. It depicts an artificial symmetry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","iawp_total_views":8,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[617,618,641,48,1401,439,40,158],"ppma_author":[936],"class_list":["post-3917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-gazaunderattack","tag-palestineunderattack","tag-ceasefire","tag-gaza","tag-hamas","tag-israeli-defense-forces","tag-israeli-occupation","tag-occupied-territories"],"authors":[{"term_id":936,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"sambahour","display_name":"Sam Bahour","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/bca109c333bf6d8ae807746dd512adde46265d37c923f6cd0fc4aab437f8e9aa?s=96&d=mm&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3917"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10379,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3917\/revisions\/10379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3917"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=3917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}