[Jerusalem Post] Herb Keinon and Yaakov Katz - Israel Defense officials said Egypt could do more to prevent Palestinian infiltrations into Sinai from Gaza and then into Israel, and IDF liaison officers have asked their Egyptian counterparts to increase efforts to stop the terror flow. "The Egyptians can do more," said one defense official on Tuesday. "It is just a matter of whether they want to." A diplomatic official said Israel had been pressing the Egyptians for years to take more effective action on their side of the border to prevent arms smuggling and the infiltration of terrorists, but some in Sinai were making a lot of money through smuggling.
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