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Peace Prospects for Gaza Hinge on Egypt's Sinai

(Wall Street Journal) Matt Bradley - While Israel and Gaza's leaders are locked in talks to harden the temporary cease-fire, prospects for a longer peace hinge largely on Egypt, and whether its new Islamist government has the will and strength amid domestic unrest to control weapons flowing through the Sinai Desert. Egyptian police last week seized a truckload of Grad missiles in the city of Suez that Egypt's interior ministry said was bound for Sinai, according to the official Egyptian state news agency. But critics of Egypt's government, including officials inside Israel, say Cairo's latest efforts have largely been public-relations moves that haven't effectively cut off flows to Gaza. Ali, a Palestinian tunnel operator, said Egyptian authorities recently filled the mouths of some tunnels, which he said tunnel operators quickly dug out. It was Israel, he said, that landed a crippling blow - bombing what he said was about 600 of 1,000 smuggling tunnels.
2012-12-05 00:00:00
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