GAZA

AFTER ENDURING OVER one hundred days of Israel’s onslaught on the Gaza Strip, news is emerging of a peace offer from Hamas.

“They say they will return all the money they received from Israel over the years – when they were the preferred Palestinian faction – plus interest, all adjusted for inflation, if the Israelis will just stop bombing civilian targets,” says Norwegian lawyer and mediation specialist Urs Thor Odin of the Oslo-based think tank Touchy Feely. “We feel it’s a fair offer. After all, Israel gave a considerable amount of money to the Hamas cause and in a way is more responsible for its actions than the people of Gaza.”