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Source: https://themedialine.org/news/opinion/gaza-ceasefire-the-long-and-short-of-it/
The Palestinians Want Peace without Israel
(Media Line) Mark Lavie - Every Saturday, a few more hostages will be released. First, the live captives will come home. Then the bodies will come. On the Palestinian side, there will be victory marches and wild celebrations greeting the prisoners freed by Israel in exchange for the hostages. There are legitimate fears that the thousands of Palestinian prisoners, including convicted murderers and terrorist leaders, to be freed in exchange for the hostages could replenish the Hamas ranks decimated by Israeli military operations over the past year-plus. That has happened before. The Palestinians have shown time and again that they do not want peace with Israel. They have turned down detailed Israeli offers of a Palestinian state in the equivalent of the whole West Bank and Gaza, a corridor to connect the two, and parts of Jerusalem. Clearly, what the Palestinians want is peace without Israel. The Oct. 7 Hamas massacres and their widespread support among Palestinians and their supporters abroad are just the latest proof of that. The writer has been covering the Middle East for major news outlets since 1972.