Egypt Faces Policy Crisis Over Gaza

[Oxford Analytica/Forbes] The emergency summit on Gaza that convened in Egypt on Monday signals Cairo's concern about the takeover of Gaza by Hamas. Egypt has changed from neighboring a fragile PA whose key political and security leaders - Abbas and Dahlan - it could trust, to neighboring a Gaza run by an Islamist party that is an offshoot of its own Muslim Brotherhood - what a senior Egyptian official has described with concern as "an Islamist state on Egypt's borders."


2007-06-27 01:00:00

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