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Let Egypt into Gaza

[Ynet News] Guy Bechor - Neither Egypt nor Israel want the responsibility over Gaza, but all are failing to ask a simple question: Egypt is after all an Arab country, the Palestinians' elder sister, which connects them to the Arab world historically. In Gaza, Arabic is spoken with an Egyptian accent. Why then, after full Israeli disengagement, should the burden fall on the shoulders of Israel, the Palestinians' enemy, of all countries? Hamas' Gaza now presents an opportunity to fix our failure to fully disengage from there. Israel is continuing to supply water, gas, and fuel. If there's disengagement, let it be full. So please, let them fend for themselves or with their great Arab sister Egypt. If we retake responsibility over this Palestinian area, which is controlled by global radicalism, the entire painful episode of disengagement would have been wasted. Egypt should have no doubt that the terror regime in Gaza will impact the entire Sinai Peninsula, and ultimately Cairo as well. The Egyptians must understand that there are no more excuses and that now they are obliged to act: Prevent arms from flowing into Gaza, while entering the Strip and getting increasingly involved, first and foremost for their benefit of their own regime.
2007-06-22 01:00:00
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