Ha’aretz kicks off the news on the disturbing splits between PM Olmert and Defense Minister Barak
Barak also favors the French proposal for a 48-hour truce that would be used to examine Hamas’ willingness to agree to a long-term cease-fire
What’s to explore? Hamas loves ceasefires. Here’s an idea. Barak doesn’t want the job, fire him and get someone who does.
“There’s no such thing as a ‘humanitarian cease-fire’,” an Olmert aide said Tuesday. “Gaza is not undergoing a humanitarian crisis. We’re constantly supplying it with food and medications, and there’s no need for a humanitarian cease-fire.”
If you want to be kind to the Palestinian people, destroy Hamas. The only reason for a ceasefire would be, much as was done in Fallujah, to give honest people a chance to exit, so you can kill the rest.
JPost indicates the Barak soft-on-Hamas thing is a bigger problem than Ha’aretz indicated:
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