Day 40: Egypt warns there will be no more truce proposals
Day 40: Egypt warns there will be no more truce proposalsHamas threatens Israel with war of attrition if demands not met, says many more issues to be resolved in Cairo negotiations; Palestinian delegation says progress made but chances for ceasefire deal no higher than 50%By Yifa Yaakov and Ricky Ben-David August 16, 2014, 12:13 am Updated: August 16, 2014, 3:03 pm
via Day 40: Egypt warns there will be no more truce proposals | The Times of Israel.
$1,000 of Qatari money to be paid to Gazans who lost homes
The Hamas social affairs ministry tells Palestinians in Gaza that in two day’s time, it will pay — using donations from Qatar — $1,000 to each person whose home was destroyed during Operation Protective Edge, Ynet reports.
‘Hamas has not agreed to the Egyptian proposal’
A senior Hamas official says the terror group has not agreed and will not agree to what the Palestinian delegation has been offered before leaving Cairo, Ynet reports
“The stance of the [Palestinian] delegation is clear. We will not accept what has been offered to us before we leave. We object to any formula [of a proposal] that does not go hand in hand with the demands of the Palestinian people. There are several issues [in the 11-point Egyptian proposal] that are unacceptable to the delegation,’ says Issat a-Rishq, a close associate of Hamas political chief Khaled Mashaal.
No more ceasefire proposals, says Egypt
Egypt says it will not submit any more ceasefire proposals to either side, after Cairo offered an 11-point proposal yesterday, Israel Radio reports.
Hamas has said the bid did not meet the needs of the Palestinian people.
Head of Palestinian delegation has ‘high hopes’ for truce deal
Azzam al-Ahmad, who heads the Palestinian delegation at the Cairo talks, tells AFP he is quietly optimistic that an agreement for a longer-term truce could be reached.
“We have high hopes of reaching an agreement very soon, before the end of the truce, and perhaps even, very quickly, for a permanent ceasefire,” he says.
But Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri struck a hardline, insisting that there can be no return to peace without a lifting of Israel’s blockade, which it imposed together with Egypt in large part to prevent Hamas from importng weapons, after it violently seized control in 2007.
“We can reach an agreement if the Israeli side accepts all the demands of the unified Palestinian delegation, in particular the end of any aggression against our people, the war on Gaza and the complete lifting of the siege,” Abu Zuhri said.
Israel has spoken little in public about the negotiations.
The five-day truce is set to end Monday night.
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WarSclerotic 
August 16, 2014 at 3:15 PM
The Obama administration has recently executed arms sales to two bad actors in the Middle East; Turkey and Qatar.
The administration recently cleared the sale of advanced medium-range air-to-air missiles, also known as AMRAAM’s, to Turkey. According to the announcement, the missiles will be used on Turkey’s F-16 aircraft – and eventually on stealth F-35 aircraft that the administration intends to supply Turkey.
Turkey has requested 145 AMRAAMs, 10 missile guidance sections, and 40 LAU-129 launchers, containers, support equipment, spare and repair parts, integration activities, publications and technical documentation, test equipment, personnel training and training equipment, U.S. government and contractor logistics, engineering and technical support and other related elements or logistical and program support.
The administration statement said the sale was “consistent with U.S. national interests”.
Similarly, the Obama Administration recently signed an agreement with Qatar to sell the Gulf Arab state Apache attack helicopters and Patriot and Javelin air-defense systems valued at $11 billion. Qatar is a major financier and supporter of both Hamas and ISIS in Iraq. The Leader of the Hamas terrorist organization actually lives in Qatar, not far from the United States Central Command headquarters that is based in that country.
As all of this is going on, the Wall Street Journal reports that the Obama Administration has decided to tighten its control on arms transfers to Israel. Each transfer will no longer go directly through the Pentagon, but must now be approved by the State Department and the White House, giving Secretary Kerry and President Obama direct control on every transfer. The new procedure has had the affect of delaying the transfer of precision strike hellfire missiles to Israel in a time of war. The administration clearly intends to use such transfers as political leverage on Israel.
The WSJ reported that a senior Obama administration official said the White House didn’t intend to get into a “tit for tat” with the Israelis when the war broke out in Gaza. “We have many, many friends around the world. The United States is their strongest friend,” the official said. “The notion that they are playing the United States, or that they’re manipulating us publicly, completely miscalculates their place in the world,” the administration official said in reference to the Jewish State.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/08/obama-delays-arms-shipments-to-israel-while-confirming-advanced-arms-sales-to-turkey-and-qatar