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'Do you surrender yet?'


By Ryan Jones
November 03, 2005

Sounding as though it had won a great victory over the Jewish state, the Hamas terrorist organization Thursday laid out its terms for ceasing aggression against Israelis.

?We are not going to give calm without a price,? Gaza-based Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Zahar told Reuters, as the December deadline for renewing the current farcical terrorist truce fast approaches.

That price, Zahar said, is the release of all 8,000 terrorists currently jailed in Israel, and a complete halt to Israel's military efforts to defend its citizens from future attacks.

Over the past year, Israelis have been treated to the terrorists' idea of ?calm,? which in the past two months since Israel's retreat from Gaza has actually consisted of an increase in violence.

In reality, the terrorists are ?on the ropes,? as it were, and in no position to be setting ceasefire terms, security officials told The Jerusalem Post's Arieh O'Sullivan.

?Each night, security forces fan out across Judea and Samaria and detain suspected fugitives. Nearly 1,000 have been nabbed and brought in for questioning in the past few months. While many were eventually released, the arrest of key terrorists has decimated their ranks, particularly in Hamas,? writes O'Sullivan.

However, few in Israel expect the terror groups will be completely squashed amid mounting American pressure for Israel to ?consider the consequences of its actions.?

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