A hudna will lead to an end to the occupation and create the space and the calm necessary to resolve all outstanding issues.
Whereas war dehumanizes the enemy and makes it easier to kill, a hudna affords the opportunity to humanize one's opponents and understand their position with the goal of resolving the intertribal or international dispute.
Hamas would also agree to a hudna, a ceasefire plus a political engagement, which depending on circumstances and on whom in Hamas you talk to could be 18 months, ten years, or even 50.Plainly, differences rumble within in Hamas.
Indeed, faith-based political movements in Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Malaysia, Morocco, Turkey and Yemen have used hudna-like strategies to avoid expanding conflict.
If the negotiations fail to achieve a durable settlement, the next generation of Palestinians and Israelis will have to decide whether or not to renew the hudna and the search for a negotiated peace.
We have even offered a hudna [truce] of 10-20 years, to build confidence, to make a better climate".
They are not yet ready even to discuss a hudna, or truce, like the one they declared after the last Sharon-Abbas summit in June 2003.
Some Hamas leaders are already threatening to end the hudna and say they will never stop fighting till every inch of what they consider their homeland is liberated.
This offer of hudna is no ruse, as some assert, to strengthen our military machine, to buy time to organize better or to consolidate our hold on the Palestinian Authority.
JABALIYA, Gaza Strip — The Abu Wardah family woke up on Friday morning to word that a hudna — Arabic for cease-fire — had been declared during the three-hour visit of the Egyptian prime minister to this embattled territory.
