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| Abbas Backs Egypt Crackdown On Gaza Tunnels | ||
| 2014-12-12 | ||
| [IsraelTimes] Paleostinian president the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... said he supported Egypt?s crackdown on tunnels linking the Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,-controlled Gazoo Strip to the Sinai Peninsula and any other action the country took to protect itself from turbans, according to a media report Thursday. ?We have supported all the precautionary measures taken by the Egyptian authorities to close the tunnels and stop the trafficking of arms and the passage of people between Gazoo and the Sinai,? Abbas said in an interview with Egyptian magazine Al-Ahram Al-Arabi due to be published on Saturday, extracts of which were published by MENA news agency. ?We will continue to support any measure protecting Egypt from danger,? Abbas was quoted as saying.
The Egyptian military has stepped up the destruction of tunnels from Gazoo that it says are used by the Paleostinian Islamist movement to smuggle arms, food and money. The army says it has destroyed more than 1,600 such tunnels since Morsi?s ouster. Egypt has also begun setting up a buffer zone along its border with the Gazoo Strip, which will see hundreds of homes demolished, in order to prevent turban infiltration and arms smuggling. Bitter rivals Hamas, the de facto rulers of Gazoo, and Abbas?s Fatah movement, which dominates the West Bank-based Paleostinian Authority, agreed on a national unity government earlier this year but reconciliation efforts have repeatedly hit stumbling blocks.
In one such attack in late October, at least 30 soldiers were killed in a suicide kaboom in the Sinai Peninsula. ?If it is proved that Hamas members are implicated in terrorist attacks against Egypt, it has the right to go after them and punish them,? Abbas said, according to MENA. Jihadists say they are taking Dire Revenge against a police crackdown on Morsi supporters that has left more than 1,400 dead. | ||
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 I'm sure El Sisi's encouraged by this support. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-12-12 03:39 |