Reuters opines:
Outgoing Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is mounting a last-ditch effort to free a captured Israeli soldier by blocking an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire in the Gaza Strip until Hamas agrees to release him.
Whether Olmert’s brinkmanship can produce a breakthrough in the few weeks he has left depends on Israel making difficult concessions that could bolster Hamas, and on the Islamist group taking a gamble on the Jewish state keeping its word. Many diplomats are sceptical all the pieces will fall in place.
Hamas has no faith that Israel, which is about to change governments, will abide by commitments under the proposed ceasefire, mainly to keep Gaza’s border crossings open, if captured soldier Gilad Shalit is freed.
(Via LGF.)
Reuters is just being ironic, right? They aren’t actually accusing Israel of not keeping its word, are they? The Palestinians never satisfied their obligations under Olso, or under the “roadmap”, or under any of the umpteen cease-fire agreements they’ve negotiated with Israel. And they aren’t actually accusing Israel of “brinkmanship”, when it’s Hamas that’s been holding a kidnapped Israeli for over two years.
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