Hold on to your Bibles........Israel
wants a 7 year peace deal with Hamas……..go to the 5:50 mark on the video below. We could be seeing the fulfillment of Daniel 9:27
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtXrC7_f4a8
Here is the article from the Jerusalem Post. Israel agreed to extend the current
cease-fire for another 24 hours, The Jerusalem Post reported on Monday 18
August 2014.
"On Egypt's request the ceasefire shall be
extended by 24 hours to allow further negotiations," said Israeli official
and security source in Jerusalem.
Palestinian sources reported on
Monday that a cease-fire with Israel was expected to be announced just before
midnight on Monday.
A Hamas official said that the
Islamist group had agreed to prolong the cease-fire by another 24 hours so as
to allow for more negotiations with Egyptian officials in Cairo. Israeli
officials, meanwhile, are denying that an agreement is in place.
Palestinian News Agency Ma'an reported
that the Israeli delegation had left Cairo and was set to return to Israel and
present the cabinet with the cease-fire agreement to be approved.
The reported deal comes after
significant progress was made in Egyptian-mediated cease-fire talks between
Israel and Hamas, according to Palestinian sources.
While there is no word regarding the
nature of the discussions, a number of web sites affiliated with Islamic Jihad
as well as independent Palestinian sources say that there has been greater
movement by both sides toward a deal.
“There is optimism, and it seems as
if the chances of reaching an agreement are better than they’ve ever been thus
far,” said a Palestinian source currently in Cairo.
Sources
in Cairo told the Ma’an news agency that the Egyptian
government has presented a two-tiered plan – one security-oriented, and the
other political – which includes a mechanism that could lead to a lifting of
the siege on Gaza.
“A six-hour negotiating session
today, as well as a nine-hour session on Sunday, led to agreement in a number
of areas,” a Palestinian source is quoted as telling Ma’an.
Earlier Monday, an Egyptian official
told the US-backed Arab-language station Radio Sawa that “until the afternoon,
there was no progress in talks between the sides.”
Tarek Fahmi, the head of the Israeli
Unit at the Egyptian National Center for Middle East Studies, said that “the
goal of the talks today is to neutralize the main crisis points, particularly
[the question of] the Gaza airport and Israeli concessions regarding the sea,
as well as the issue of the tunnels.” Fahmi said that the negotiating sessions
that took place on Monday were “critical.”
“Israel
insists on demilitarizing the Gaza Strip from rockets and missiles, and the
declaration of a cease-fire that would last between five and seven years,” he
said. “The Palestinian side has yet to compromise on any of the key questions.”
Fahmi added that there was an
American proposal to bring the talks before UN mediation if the Cairo
discussions fail to produce a deal.
Throughout
Monday and over the weekend, Egypt pressured both Israel and Hamas to reach an
agreement on a long-term cease-fire before the current truce expires at
midnight local time.
According to official reports, Cairo
has proposed a cease-fire that would see Palestinian Authority personnel
supervise the border crossings. The two sides would then resume discussions for
a long-term agreement next month.
Future negotiations would tackle
thorny issues, including Hamas’s demands to permit the operation of a seaport
and an airport in Gaza. Israel is adamantly opposed to this.
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