Europeans Consider Maybe Doing Something About Millions Of Terrorist Dollars And Tons Of Terrorist Weapons
The European monitors who are in charge of making sure that weapons and terrorists don't get into the Gaza Strip from Egypt have had enough:
The European monitors stationed at the Rafah crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt have informed the Palestinian presidency of their intention to close the crossing and not resume their work due to continued violations by Palestinians of the Crossings' agreements, Palestinian reliable sources have declared. According to the source, the observers from the European Union have complained about Palestinian Legislative Council (Hamas) member, Marwan Abu Ras, who they say 'smuggled' US $1 million into the Strip in the last 48 hours against the monitors' wishes... Meanwhile, Israeli intelligence has warned that Palestinians 'smuggled' 19 tonnes of explosives through the border from Egypt into the Strip.
We have a different idea: wouldn't it have been great if, instead of waiting until after millions of dollars and tons of explosives have gotten into terrorists' hands, the Europeans had met their obligations and closed the crossing down... wait for it... before those things happened? Or if Egypt met their obligations under the Camp David Accords (in exchange for which they have been recieving US military aid for the last couple of decades) and prevented smuggling on their side of the border?
Or if the Palestinians, you know, stopped being such unrepentent terrorists?
[Cross-posted at IsraPundit]
The European monitors stationed at the Rafah crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt have informed the Palestinian presidency of their intention to close the crossing and not resume their work due to continued violations by Palestinians of the Crossings' agreements, Palestinian reliable sources have declared. According to the source, the observers from the European Union have complained about Palestinian Legislative Council (Hamas) member, Marwan Abu Ras, who they say 'smuggled' US $1 million into the Strip in the last 48 hours against the monitors' wishes... Meanwhile, Israeli intelligence has warned that Palestinians 'smuggled' 19 tonnes of explosives through the border from Egypt into the Strip.
We have a different idea: wouldn't it have been great if, instead of waiting until after millions of dollars and tons of explosives have gotten into terrorists' hands, the Europeans had met their obligations and closed the crossing down... wait for it... before those things happened? Or if Egypt met their obligations under the Camp David Accords (in exchange for which they have been recieving US military aid for the last couple of decades) and prevented smuggling on their side of the border?
Or if the Palestinians, you know, stopped being such unrepentent terrorists?
[Cross-posted at IsraPundit]
