(Christian Science Monitor) While the PA is welcoming renewed Egyptian involvement in the Strip - Egypt ruled Gaza from 1948 to 1967 - Hamas and other Palestinian opposition factions so far have rejected Cairo's plans to dispatch 200 military advisers to train the Palestinian security forces. "We don't need Egyptian security training in Gaza because the Palestinian Authority has good experience in arresting people," says Ghazi Hamed, editor of the Hamas-affiliated Al Risala newspaper, referring to the PA's 1996 security crackdown against Hamas. Some analysts in Cairo are already warning that Egyptian involvement could boomerang. "Once an Egyptian is shot, that will inflame the public opinion in Egypt and put us on a collision track with the Palestinian national movement," says Mohammed al-Sayed Said of the Al Ahram Centre for Political and Strategic Studies.
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