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| Egypt will "break the legs of those who breach the border," foreign minister warns |
| 2008-02-07 |
| Well it appears that Egypt has discovered how much joy the Palis bring with them wherever they go... Bethlehem - Ma'an – The Egyptian Foreign Minister warned Palestinians against breaching the border with Egypt again, saying that "those who dare break the Egyptian border will find themselves with broken legs," the state-run Middle East News Agency (MENA) reported on Thursday. Stay over there behind the wall where we can look but not touch. We like it that way. Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit, added that there are some ongoing negotiations between Egypt, the Palestinian Authority, Israel and the European Union to legally re-open the Rafah border crossing. Aboul Gheit also strongly criticized Hamas for firing homemade rockets into Israel calling those rockets as "cartoonish." He said, "These rockets that get lost in the Israeli sands give Israel the excuses it needs to launch attacks against Gaza." ...which he did not describe as "cartoonish". After Palestinians broke through the border wall on January 23rd, Egyptian security forces initially stood by while hundreds of thousands of Palestinians poured into Egypt to shop for basic supplies made scare by Israel's siege of the Gaza Strip. Egypt has since resealed the border, and has also said that it will allow the Fatah-controlled Palestinian Authority, not Hamas, to operate the Rafah crossing. Oh, good, the "good" terrorists. That'll make it much more secure... |
| Posted by:tu3031 |
| #13 The Egyptians don't sound very supportive of their "poor oppressed Palestinian brothers". |
| Posted by: DMFD 2008-02-07 22:15 |
| #12 The fact that the Egyptian FM has to resort to using language like this says a lot. |
| Posted by: gorb 2008-02-07 16:33 |
| #11 So when will the Palestinians turn their guns and rockets on the Egyptians? Can't be too long now and it's only been a couple of weeks. |
| Posted by: danking70 2008-02-07 16:06 |
| #10 "They have started to commit suicide under the walls of Gaza. We will encourage them to commit more suicides quickly." /Egyptian Information Minister |
| Posted by: ed 2008-02-07 15:42 |
| #9 So how come Egypt gets to break the legs of illegal aliens and we don't? |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2008-02-07 14:58 |
| #8 Break their legs? ..yes yes but will you roast their bellies? |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2008-02-07 14:37 |
| #7 Cash for guns, motorcycles, shopping sprees in Egypt. Dont sound like they need any more money to me. Tell Bush to piss off. |
| Posted by: Clomoger Borgia7329 2008-02-07 14:31 |
| #6 Egyptian authorities have seized more than a million dollars in forged US currency allegedly produced in the Gaza Strip That answers the question I asked last week, "Where are the palastinians getting all that cash". |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2008-02-07 13:29 |
| #5 "Well, sonny, if you cross the Egyptian border and get your legs broken, don't come running to me!" |
| Posted by: Mike 2008-02-07 12:55 |
| #4 If leg breaking works we may not have to build a fence down south after all. I mean, its not like the Feds actually want to build a fence anyway. |
| Posted by: BrerRabbit 2008-02-07 12:50 |
| #3 Nah, forget it. Just break their legs. Helluva thing, taking advantage of their Muslim "brothers"... Bethlehem – Ma'an – Egyptian authorities have seized more than a million dollars in forged US currency allegedly produced in the Gaza Strip since the Gaza-Egypt border was toppled by Palestinian fighters two weeks ago, Egyptian sources told Ma'an on Thursday. The sources expect more counterfeit banknotes to be discovered, as hundreds of dollars are being found every day. Egyptian merchants in towns bordering Gaza, such as Al-Arish, Rafah and Sheikh Zwaid have helped investigators by saving counterfeit bills. Most of the forged bills are not being reused, as merchants have been warned by the Egyptian government to double-check currency before accepting it. The Egyptian security services refused to lay blame for the flood of forged money until investigations have completed. However, Egyptian reiterated on Thursday that the border with the Gaza Strip will not again be violated again. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2008-02-07 12:46 |
| #2 Or, they could just sell them more motorcycles... Gaza-Ma'an – A motorcyclist arrived dead at the hospital after he lost control of his bike and crashed into the side of a shop in the Tel As-sultan neighborhood of Rafah, at the southern end of the Gaza Strip. A source at Abu Yousuf Hospital said that in addition to 30-year-old Hatem Muhammad Jouda, who was killed, two other men were injured in the accident. They were unconscious when they arrived at the hospital. Hundreds of motorcycles were reportedly brought in from Egypt by Palestinian teenagers after the border breached in January. Most of the motorcycles are still unregistered and the drivers untrained and unlicensed. Muawiya Hassanein, the head of emergency and ambulance services in the Palestinian Health Ministry, said that hospitals in Gaza have treated 20 people injured in motorcycle accidents so far. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2008-02-07 12:41 |
| #1 I have no love for either entity.....I respect the EFM's tone....just wish we had a pres who took this attitude wrt our own border & sovereingty. |
| Posted by: Broadhead6 2008-02-07 12:37 |