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Egyptians retreat from Gaza Border, fail to reseal it
2008-01-26
Posted by:Oztralian

#10  The Aegyptians will liely fall back to defend the Mitla and Giddup passes where they will be isolated by wait..... nevermind, rong year. The wormhole is crowded for the '67m tour.
Posted by: Thomas Woof   2008-01-26 22:36  

#9  A country that cannot protect its own borders is doomed.

Wait, what?
Posted by: Mizzou Mafia   2008-01-26 21:02  

#8  What constitutes Legal Collective Punishment? Inquiring minds want to know.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2008-01-26 12:44  

#7  Glad Sarkozy's Mediterranian Union idea is not in effect...
Posted by: swksvolFF   2008-01-26 12:17  

#6  Great. So now Israel has to gaurd the entire Sinai border against splodeydopes and Kassams.

What happens when those rockets start hitting Israel from Egypt?
Posted by: AlanC   2008-01-26 11:31  

#5  But the Egyptian foreign ministry told the BBC by text message that reports that Hosni Mubarak had invited Hamas and Fatah to Cairo for discussions were "not accurate".

"nt aqur8!"
Posted by: Frank G   2008-01-26 08:26  

#4  I thought that for the sort of marxist addled morons that inhabit the ME anything collective automatically has to be good...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2008-01-26 08:03  

#3  Hee hee! And some folks wonder why every "sovereign" government in the area needs wants nukes!
Posted by: gorb   2008-01-26 05:39  

#2  But it had faced accusations of imposing illegal "collective punishment" on residents of Gaza, which is controlled by the Islamist group Hamas.

oh goodie, a new buzzword to avoid pointing out the failure of the Palestinian "government" to maintain even a shred of order and blame it all on the jooos: "illegal collective punishment".

Correspondents say the incursions by hundreds of thousands of Gazans are forcing Egypt, Israel and the international community to rethink their policy of trying to weaken the Hamas leadership by keeping the territory sealed.

Ah yes, their only purpose of sealing the border is to weaken the hamheads, not to prevent teenyboomers from blowing up in discos or car bombs crossing the border. Because we all know that if the Palestinian people were peaceful and cooperative, like, I don't know, human beings instead of rabid rampaging monkeys, that Israel would still close their borders and imprison them. At least that what the BBC brain-dead editors apparently think.
Posted by: Punky Omeagum5537   2008-01-26 03:52  

#1  Israel, alarmed at the ongoing breakdown in security on the Egypt-Gaza border, has closed the main road running along the border. Tourism sites and hiking trails have been closed.
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Security measures have been increased, according to the Israeli military, on fears that Israeli citizens could be vulnerable to attacks by Palestinians now free to travel in the area.

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But the Egyptian foreign ministry told the BBC by text message that reports that Hosni Mubarak had invited Hamas and Fatah to Cairo for discussions were "not accurate".
If you can't trust a text message, who can you trust?
Posted by: swksvolFF   2008-01-26 03:35  

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