[Ynet] During a recent visit to Egypt for the swearing in of newly elected President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial...
sat for an interview with Sada al - Balad, saying that the unity government recently formed with Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, will adhere to all the terms already agreed to by the PA.
Abbas included that reconciliation between Hamas and the PA will not by viable in the long run without the presence of the Presidential Guard along the border between Gazoo and Egypt.
"If the PA doesn't take part of the responsibility for management of border crossing, there won't be reconciliation," said Abbas. He called Gazook smuggling tunnels, "illegal" and promised that with the Presidential Guard at Gazoo's borders, everything will enter and exit the territory through border guards.
| In order to maintain political power, cut off the opposition's opportunities for graft and corruption. |
| And turn over all the opportunities for graft and corruption to HIS bodyguards. Maybe Abbas isn't so ineffectual when it comes to looking after the boodle... |
| Debka (salt to taste) says Abbas is responding to newly-elected Egyptian President Al-Sisi's demands: |
El-Sisi acted expeditiously to refute the claims by Paleostinian Authority sources in Ramallah and Hamas officials in Gazoo City that he would open the Rafah crossing from Gazoo to Egyptian Sinai as soon as the new Paleostinian government was in place, as a gesture of support.
The answer they received from from Cairo to their request was that the border terminals would remain open only if PA security forces from Ramallah assumed control of the borders and officiated at the crossings.
But Hamas has no intention of handing this strategic resource over to the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial...
and his Fatah. A standoff has therefore developed between the two partners, souring the amity they have strived to display. Any PA bid to take over control of the Gazoo crossings would be forcibly resisted by Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,, a clash that could spell the end of their reconciliation and power-sharing deal.
Not only has Cairo kept the Rafah crossing shut, it has beefed up military oversight on its borders with Gazoo to prevent incursions at any point. A law has been drafted moreover by the Egyptian authorities setting out long prison sentences for anyone attempting to "prepare, dig or use" a tunnel connecting Egypt to a foreign "entity" or nation (i.e. Hamas or the Paleostinian government) for the passage of goods or persons.
By these actions, Egypt has begun tightening its blockade of the Gazoo Strip.
Friday, June 6, Israel's President Shimon Peres and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu phoned the incoming Egyptian president to congratulate him on winning the national election. Both Israeli and Egyptian officials declined to comment on the supposition that Cairo's steps for sealing the Gazoo borders and taken inside the enclave had been coordinated with Israel.
Our sources add that El-Sisi's clampdown on Hamas ties in with the heavy Egyptian military deployment on its western border with Libya, and his determination to put a stop to the flow of smuggled weapons to the Sinai Peninsula and Gazoo Strip into the hands of Islamist terrorists.
Cairo recently received an intelligence tip-off that a number of Moslem BrĂźderbund leaders on the run had set up base in the Gazoo Strip to engineer terrorist attacks on the Egyptian army, especially in Cairo and the Suez coastal cities.
Cairo is meting out harsh treatment not only to Hamas, but also to the pro-Iranian Paleostinian Jihad Islami. Egyptian military intelligence made it clear to these turbans that, since their military wing now rivals Hamas's militia, the Ezz a-Din Al-Qassam, its leader Mohammed Al-Hindi, a personal enemy of El-Sisi, must go.
If not, Cairo will bar its members' travel between Egypt and the Gazoo Strip, thereby cutting them off from their ties to Iran and the Arab world. This week, Jhad Islami knuckled under and replaced Al-Hindi with a new Gazoo leader, Nafez Assam.
the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial...
will try, when he visits Cairo next Tuesday to attend El-Sisi's inauguration as president, to obtain clear answers about his intentions. If Egypt mainains its current restrictions on the Gazoo Strip and Hamas into the future, the Paleostinians will be unable to hold the elections for president and parliament that are scheduled for Jan. 2, 2015 in the two territories. This will place the survival of the power-sharing government in Ramallah in grave doubt.