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Jan. 18th, 2009 10:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dreamer_easyIsrael announces truce
"Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said after a meeting of his security cabinet he was calling an immediate end to offensive operations but added that troops would stay in Gaza for the time being with orders to return fire if attacked.
In response, Hamas said it would not accept the presence of a single soldier in the territory while Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas insisted the ceasefire must be followed by a complete pullout of Israeli troops."
ETA: More detail from The Guardian: "Israeli defence officials said the invading forces would remain inside Gaza for several more days before beginning their pullout. Hamas said it would keep attacking so long as thousands of Israeli soldiers and tanks continued to occupy swathes of the Palestinian enclave."
ETA: Starbucks debunks rumours that it supports Israel. Extensive debunking here (you'll have to ignore the 'those protesters can't possibly mean it' rubbish). You have to wonder what the idiots trashing Starbucks shops would have to say about Starbucks' withdrawal from Israel. Not to mention what the idiots decrying said withdrawal at the time would have to say about Starbucks' withdrawal from Australia.
"Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said after a meeting of his security cabinet he was calling an immediate end to offensive operations but added that troops would stay in Gaza for the time being with orders to return fire if attacked.
In response, Hamas said it would not accept the presence of a single soldier in the territory while Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas insisted the ceasefire must be followed by a complete pullout of Israeli troops."
ETA: More detail from The Guardian: "Israeli defence officials said the invading forces would remain inside Gaza for several more days before beginning their pullout. Hamas said it would keep attacking so long as thousands of Israeli soldiers and tanks continued to occupy swathes of the Palestinian enclave."
ETA: Starbucks debunks rumours that it supports Israel. Extensive debunking here (you'll have to ignore the 'those protesters can't possibly mean it' rubbish). You have to wonder what the idiots trashing Starbucks shops would have to say about Starbucks' withdrawal from Israel. Not to mention what the idiots decrying said withdrawal at the time would have to say about Starbucks' withdrawal from Australia.
