After years of quietly violating agreements with Israel when it comes to border cooperation and security, the Egyptians are tired of being subtle:

Men in black clothing, some of them masked, stood atop the bulldozer as it knocked down a concrete slab under the watchful eyes of Egyptian forces on the other side who shot in the air in an attempt to hinder the flow of Gazans into Egypt. Thousands of Palestinians, many of them carrying empty fuel canisters, managed to push through several openings despite the presence of the Egyptians deployed nine rows deep in some places. At one point, guards aimed a water cannon above the heads of people, not at them, to keep them back... The border was breached Wednesday, when Palestinians blew down large sections of the border wall. Since then, Egypt has allowed tens of thousands of Palestinians to go back and forth, but has rejected any suggestion of assuming responsibility for the crowded, impoverished territory. In an interview published Friday, President Hosni Mubarak called the situation in Gaza "unacceptable" and called on Israel to "lift its siege" and "solve the problem."

Egypt will allow Gazans to bring as much ammunition and explosives as they want into Gaza - but they won't accept responsibility for what the Palestinians do with them. That seems reasonable.

And the State Department's nearly unprecedented pressure on Israel to fully withdraw from the Gaza-Egyptian border and hand over security control to the Egyptians and the Europeans? Working out totally awesome. But at least the EU was doing a really good job before they predictably bailed out. Or: at least you can't get frustrated becase all of this was totally unpredictable when the State Department was shoving the deal down Israel's throat.

UPDATE: We keep forgetting to link to this Jihad Watch post, which opens with an interesting question and emphasizes that Hamas has been working on destroying the Egyptian border wall for moths.

References:
* Camp David, Other Agreements With Egypt Working Out Great - Cairo "Working Against Israel For Years" [MR]
* Hamas bulldozer wrecks another section of Rafah fence [JPost]
* One Jerusalem Conference Call: Ambassador Dore Gold On How Current Limited Negotiations Are A Slippery Slope To Losing Jerusalem [MR]
* EU Lies, Allows Hamas Terrorists to Stream Into Gaza [MR]
* EU Again Backs Out of Monitoring Agreement, Endangers Israeli Security [MR]
* State Department: When We Say "Two Secure States", That's More a Motto than a Commitment [MR]

Previously:
* Persecution Of Baha'is In Egypt and Iran Fails To Gain International Attention [Video]
* Turns Out, Egypt Not Pro Israeli Security
* Egypt To Pursue Nuclear Program