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Date Posted: 07:36:24 01/12/09 Mon
Author: pastor lewis
Subject: TONY BLAIR: GAZA CEASEFIRE WITHIN REACH

TONY BLAIR: GAZA CEASEFIRE WITHIN REACH

January 12, 2009

The London Daily Telegraph reports: “The former British Prime Minister who works as the Middle East envoy for world powers spoke in Cairo where truce talks between Egyptian officials and a Hamas delegation were underway. Israel postponed a Cairo trip by Amos Gilad, its top envoy to the talks, in an attempt to put pressure on Hamas to agree to the emerging settlement.

Mr. Blair said the negotiations which centre on future efforts to stop Hamas smuggling weapons into the Gaza Strip were at a ‘sensitive stage’.

But he said that ‘the elements of an agreement’ for a ceasefire ‘are there’ and that officials were working ‘very hard’ to reach their goal.

Israel is threatening to mobilise its reserve forces to mount a broad scale invasion of the Palestinian territory if a ceasefire, which would see rocket attacks on Israel dry up, is not reached.

A Hamas official said the radical Islamic organisation can accept parts of the proposed deal but was not ready to accept its terms on allowing foreign observers and its sworn rivals of the Fatah faction back into the enclave.

Bernard Kouchner, the French foreign minister, said that European military observers should be sent to Gaza to monitor any eventual ceasefire between Israel and Hamas…”

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