USA DEMANDS HAMAS RENOUNCE VIOLENCE, DISARM BEFORE UNITY DEAL:

 In the first detailed USA response to this month’s Palestinian unity deal, Jason Greenblatt, President Trump's special representative for international negotiations, said Thurs. 19 Oct. 2017: "Any Palestinian government must unambiguously and explicitly commit to nonviolence, recognize the State of Israel, accept previous agreements and obligations between the parties - including to disarm terrorists - and commit to peaceful negotiations. If Hamas is to play any role in a Palestinian government, it must accept these basic requirements." Hamas has thus far rejected calls for it to disarm its estimated 25,000 troops in Gaza, even as talks on the unity deal move forward. (Times of Israel/AFP) How tragic that Hamas has used billions of dollars of foreign aid money to build terrorist attack tunnels into Israel to buy and use weapons against the Jewish state, and to pad their own pockets. So much could have been done to build up the suffering Gaza Strip society, to provide jobs, homes, schools, and so much more. Instead, Hamas continues to feed its men, women and children on hate and jihad. An entire population is starving on such a diet. Pray that Hamas will in factbe overthrown and that others with a positive eye towards rebuilding the Gaza Strip and co-operating with Israel will be put in place.