Egypt Creates, Criticizes Gaza Chaos
So Egypt is probably more than a little responsible for all of those weapons that have been finding their way into the Gaza Strip:
Since the pullout, Diskin said, Palestinians have smuggled three anti-aircraft missiles into Gaza compared to none before disengagement. He added that close to 200 RPGs and tons of explosives were also smuggled into Gaza on a monthly basis. "It is clear that our withdrawal from the Philadelphi Corridor and our reliance on the Egyptians has proven to be a failure," committee chairman Yuval Steinitz said. "The Egyptians are not acting like the Jordanians, who prevent weapons from being smuggled across the border. They sometimes stop the smuggling and sometimes don't, but in reality their behavior has drastically increased the amount of weapons smuggled into Gaza." Terror organizations, Diskin said, have used the last few months to build up their military forces and to develop long-range Kassam rockets.
And now they're acting all surprised and getting pissed off at PA Chairman Abbas because people are actually using all those weapons that they allowed across the border:
Egypt threatened to withdraw its support for the Palestinian Authority if the PA did not act to control the rampant anarchy in the Gaza Strip, according to a report in the London Arab newspaper Al Quds. The report claimed that following the incident at the Rafah border crossing in which two Egyptian soldiers were killed, Egyptian authorities delivered the threat to PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas as part of a specially delivered message. Egypt also threatened to withdraw its support for the peace process if the PA did not take the proper steps to restore order to Gaza.
Now, admittedly, Abbas is not on our Hanukkah card list. But Egypt's activities against Israel place them in at least a healthy amount of tension with at least a couple of treaties and not a few signed agreements. Someone should probably point that out, and also point out that you don't get to throw the glass of milk against a wall and then cry about all the liquid on the ground.
Since the pullout, Diskin said, Palestinians have smuggled three anti-aircraft missiles into Gaza compared to none before disengagement. He added that close to 200 RPGs and tons of explosives were also smuggled into Gaza on a monthly basis. "It is clear that our withdrawal from the Philadelphi Corridor and our reliance on the Egyptians has proven to be a failure," committee chairman Yuval Steinitz said. "The Egyptians are not acting like the Jordanians, who prevent weapons from being smuggled across the border. They sometimes stop the smuggling and sometimes don't, but in reality their behavior has drastically increased the amount of weapons smuggled into Gaza." Terror organizations, Diskin said, have used the last few months to build up their military forces and to develop long-range Kassam rockets.
And now they're acting all surprised and getting pissed off at PA Chairman Abbas because people are actually using all those weapons that they allowed across the border:
Egypt threatened to withdraw its support for the Palestinian Authority if the PA did not act to control the rampant anarchy in the Gaza Strip, according to a report in the London Arab newspaper Al Quds. The report claimed that following the incident at the Rafah border crossing in which two Egyptian soldiers were killed, Egyptian authorities delivered the threat to PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas as part of a specially delivered message. Egypt also threatened to withdraw its support for the peace process if the PA did not take the proper steps to restore order to Gaza.
Now, admittedly, Abbas is not on our Hanukkah card list. But Egypt's activities against Israel place them in at least a healthy amount of tension with at least a couple of treaties and not a few signed agreements. Someone should probably point that out, and also point out that you don't get to throw the glass of milk against a wall and then cry about all the liquid on the ground.
