(Jerusalem Post) Zvi Mazel - Hamas is now ready to consider what it rejected for so long: setting up a joint administration with the Palestinian Authority at the Rafah crossing into Egypt. Hamas kicked out the PA in 2007 when it took over Gaza and has repeatedly turned down calls to let the PA return to the crossing as stipulated in agreements concluded with Israel and the EU. Hamas now hopes that such a move would placate the Egyptian Army and induce it to open the crossing more often. It would bring sorely needed relief to the population of Gaza, now openly grumbling against Hamas. But there is no question of letting the European inspectors come back, since Hamas considers the agreements null and void. The writer, a fellow of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, is a former Israeli ambassador to Romania, Egypt and Sweden.
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