“Seeking to unify Gaza Strip factions on their truce with Israel, Egypt hosted leaders of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad earlier this month in Cairo.”
One wonders what Egypt is really up to. The goal of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad is to obliterate the Jewish state of Israel. Endless truces have come and gone, as jihadists have continued their assault on Israel.
Although Egypt is said to be a mediator in pushing Hamas and Israel to agree to a five-year ceasefire deal, the meeting “was chaired by Hamas political bureau head Ismail Haniyeh and his Islamic Jihad counterpart, Secretary-General Ziad al-Nakhalah,” which gives an indication of where this so-called truce deal is really going.
Note that Israel in the article is presented as the aggressor:
The fighting, in which 34 Palestinians were killed, erupted after Israel assassinated Islamic Jihad commander Bahaa Abu al-Atta and his wife, and in a separate attack that day, killed a son of Islamic Jihad leader Akram al-Ajouri.
Israel is by no means the aggressor in this long-standing conflict. Israel has struggled to survive as a Jewish state since its founding, and it will not be left alone, since the goal of the surrounding Muslim Arab nations has always been to “free Palestine” from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea. This means to obliterate Israel.
Read The Palestinian Delusion.
“Egypt firms up truce positions between Israel, Gaza factions,” by Rasha Abou Jalal, Al-Monitor, December 12, 2019:
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Seeking to unify Gaza Strip factions on their truce with Israel, Egypt hosted leaders of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad earlier this month in Cairo.
The Dec. 3 meeting was chaired by Hamas political bureau head Ismail Haniyeh and his Islamic Jihad counterpart, Secretary-General Ziad al-Nakhalah. The men discussed a number of issues, most notably the Egypt-sponsored truce understandings signed between the Palestinian resistance and Israel in late March.
Following the meeting — which dragged on for more than five hours — the two movements said they will continue to coordinate closely and further develop joint operations. They stressed that their strategic relations are tantamount to a sustained alliance.
They also claimed to have overcome all attempts to sow discord among the movements’ members, which they said is what caused Hamas to refrain from participating in the Nov. 12-13 military confrontation that ignited between the Islamic Jihad and Israel. (Some observers, however, have speculated that Hamas sat out the fight to score points with Israel.) The fighting, in which 34 Palestinians were killed….