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CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt and the Palestinian Authority said Saturday they did not envisage any international forces in Egypt or on the Gaza border under a possible truce agreement between Israel and Gaza.

Egyptian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hossam Zaki said Egypt had received no request. "No one has asked for this, and this is a non-issue for us," he said.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, after talks in Cairo with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, said: "We want an international presence in the Gaza Strip, and not on the Egypt-Gaza border."

"If they say in the West Bank and Gaza, we say yes, ... (but) it is not between the borders of Egypt and Rafah. We basically want to spare the blood of our people," he added.

European and Israeli diplomats have said Egypt is objecting to proposals that foreign troops and technicians be stationed on its 15-km (9-mile) border with Gaza to prevent arms smuggling. Diplomats have also suggested that they could supervise the operation of the border crossings and monitor the truce between Israel and Hamas, the Islamist movement which runs Gaza.

Instead, the diplomats said, Egypt is ready to accept technical assistance for its own forces on the border. Israel says the Egyptians have failed in the past to prevent Hamas building up an arsenal of hundreds of rockets.

Egypt already has international forces on its side of the border with Israel as part of the peace treaty it signed with the Jewish state in 1979.

But Zaki said that force was not relevant as a precedent. "It's like apples and oranges," he added.

Abbas said an Egyptian initiative launched Tuesday was in fact the way to implement a U.N. Security Council ceasefire resolution passed Thursday.

Neither diplomatic initiative has made much difference on the ground in Gaza, which received more Israeli attacks by land, sea and air Saturday. Hamas fired rockets into Israel.

Abbas said the Palestinian Authority wanted a ceasefire and peace. "Resistance is not an end in itself ... If the resistance aims to destroy the people, we don't want it," he added.

(Additional reporting by William Rasmussen and Aziz El-Kaissouni; Writing by Jonathan Wright)
It is very difficult to add a different voice, because the public and media discourse is so monochrome and so militaristic," said Nomika Zion, an Israeli member of the peace collective, Another Voice.

This group, which comprises residents of both Gaza and neighbouring Israeli towns like Sderot, is seeking to present an alternative to the majority of Israeli pro-war opinions that currently dominate the media.

It is a tough task.

Zion, herself from Sderot, recalled one occasion when a colleague was verbally attacked in the middle of a TV interview by a group of passers-by who tried to pull the mike away from him.

"I really feel that our democracy is in trouble sometimes," she says.

"If you can't raise your voice and say things aloud without being scared that someone will attack you, it is very dangerous for our society."

Deconstructing government justifications

Media reports on the Israeli view of the country's war in Gaza converge on the overwhelming public approval for it - polls show over 80 per cent are in favour of the attacks.
Israelis who are not supportive of the war face the sort of public derision that Zion describes.

They also face the challenge of deconstructing the government's justification for its deadly assaults on Gaza - a series of key messages that are strongly endorsed in both public and media spheres.

Such messages include assertions that Hamas is a terrorist organisation backed by Iran; Hamas broke the six-month ceasefire that ended a few weeks ago; and that Israel is waging a war of self-defence against Hamas and not against ordinary Gazans.

"Many people in Israel call us traitors and war criminals because we talk about the war while it is still going on," said Teddy Katz of the Israeli peace group, Gush Shalom.

"But the truth is that this government ordered a criminal war
Gush Shalom is one member of a coalition that held a news conference on Wednesday, January 7, 2009, to brief the media on peace camp positions.

Some speakers at the news conference focused on what they held to be Israel's real motives for the war - election success and also, according to Katz, sanitising corrupt political reputations is also a factor.

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