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Israel, Hamas reach deal for 50 hostages in exchange for multi-day cease-fire in war...now delayed to at least Friday while war continues
2023-11-23
[NYPOST] Israel has approved a deal with Hamas
...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
in which 50 hostages held by the terror group would be freed in exchange for a temporary cease-fire in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
lasting at least four days and the release of Paleostinians detained in Israeli prisons.

The Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
-mediated agreement was overwhelmingly approved by the Israeli cabinet early Wednesday local time after more than six hours of debate — marking the first major diplomatic breakthrough since the start of the war.

"The government of Israel is committed to bringing all of the hostages home," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said in a statement. "Tonight, the government approved the outline for the first stage of achieving this goal."

Qatar’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs later formally announced the deal in a statement on X and said a start time to the halt in fighting would be revealed "within the next 24 hours."

As part of the deal — struck more than six weeks into the war — Hamas is set to release 50 of the 240 hostages taken during its Oct. 7 attack on the Jewish nation, according to the Israeli government.

The first hostages to be freed would be women and kiddies.

Or perhaps not:
In surprise delay, top Netanyahu aide says hostage release ‘not before Friday’

[IsraelTimes] National Security Council chairman Tzachi Hanegbi announces talks for deal on at least 50 hostages and 4-day fighting lull ‘progressing’; truce also on hold, war to continue
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Posted by:Fred

#6  I don't like this at all.

Would the US have declared a cease-fire right after the battle of Midway? Or the Soviet Union during the battle of Stalingrad?

Evil aggressors like Hamas have to be wiped off the map. We have had no trouble from either Japan or Germany since 1945. For fairly obvious reasons.
Posted by: Tom   2023-11-23 10:32  

#5  Let me guess: Hamas wants all the hostages to sign NDAs regarding their kidnapping and subsequent detention.

Snark O'The Day
Posted by: M. Murcek   2023-11-23 07:29  

#4  I believe we had a post here or maybe elsewhere that Netanyahu called it a pause not a cease-fire that the usual lame stream media use.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2023-11-23 06:57  

#3  "Don't talk about the rapes!"
Posted by: Frank G   2023-11-23 06:47  

#2  Kind of hard to reanimate dead hostages!
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance   2023-11-23 02:56  

#1  In surprise delay, top Netanyahu aide says hostage release ‘not before Friday’

Allanbeasts cannot provide proof of life?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2023-11-23 00:28  

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