This is just great (note the sarcasm, please). The misfits of the world, the palestinians, run into some problems of their own doing and now Saudia Arabia and Iran are sticking their dirty noses into the situation to try and "help." Yeah, right. Iran is there to support their muderous arm, Hamas, and Saudi Arabia more than likely wants to see the exoducs and migration of the misfists to stop in Egypt.
Now, the real interesting stuff is that it is coming out that Hamas orchestrated this whole exodus into Egypt and literally gave all of the invading masses $300 each to go spend and shut down the merchants inside Egypt. Folks, that money from Hamas came out of the funds donated to the Palis by the world - don't kid yourselves. Bottom line, this is a huge mess. It is looking more and more like Hamas, with the backing of Iran of course and also some support of Saudi Arabia, is making a play to expand that Gaza border into Egypt. They are gonna end up squatting on that newly infiltrated land.
Egypt's issue is that Hamas' parent group, the Muslim Brotherhood, is still a force in Egypt and so the Egyptians would face a backlash if they get tough with these misplaced excrements from Gaza.
This is going to get muddier before it gets clearer. But bottom line is this, in my view, Egypt will have to make concessions in this mess - they will bend to Tehran and Riyadh and the net result will be Egypt severing several of their agreements with the Israelis. It is, after all, about Israel...bet on it.
Here's the full story.
Now, the real interesting stuff is that it is coming out that Hamas orchestrated this whole exodus into Egypt and literally gave all of the invading masses $300 each to go spend and shut down the merchants inside Egypt. Folks, that money from Hamas came out of the funds donated to the Palis by the world - don't kid yourselves. Bottom line, this is a huge mess. It is looking more and more like Hamas, with the backing of Iran of course and also some support of Saudi Arabia, is making a play to expand that Gaza border into Egypt. They are gonna end up squatting on that newly infiltrated land.
Egypt's issue is that Hamas' parent group, the Muslim Brotherhood, is still a force in Egypt and so the Egyptians would face a backlash if they get tough with these misplaced excrements from Gaza.
This is going to get muddier before it gets clearer. But bottom line is this, in my view, Egypt will have to make concessions in this mess - they will bend to Tehran and Riyadh and the net result will be Egypt severing several of their agreements with the Israelis. It is, after all, about Israel...bet on it.
Here's the full story.
Hamas backers Saudi Arabia and Tehran Step into Gaza Crisis
On the sixth day of the Palestinian surge out of Gaza into northern Sinai, Egyptian intelligence is discovering that, far from being chaotic, it was minutely planned by the fundamentalist Hamas group which rules the Gaza Strip.
According to DEBKAfile’s military sources, each of the estimated half a million Gazans in flight, one-third of the total population, received a $300 grant, which accounts for the shopping spree they could suddenly afford. Hamas was therefore willing to spend $150 million on a maneuver for seizing control of an enclave in northern Sinai.
Egyptian border troops were forced to stand aside by this mass of surging humanity. Dozens were injured by gunmen shooting from inside the mob. Early Monday, Jan. 28, Cairo deployed a border guard brigade in the northern Sinai town of El Arish, to hold the line against the spread of the Palestinian tide into the largest town in the peninsula.
It is calculated that if the Palestinians take over El Arish, they will use as a springboard to advance on Egypt proper.
Egyptian forces have in the last 24 hours, apprehended 30 Palestinians on their way to the Suez Canal armed with weapons, explosives and devices for monitoring Egyptian and Israeli security communications, and a second group heading for the unfenced 220-km Egyptian-Israeli border.
DEBKAfile’s military sources also report that Cairo has, without making a public announcement, clamped an economic blockade on El Arish, closing down shops, hotels, restaurants and gas pumps, to make the town less attractive to the roving Palestinians than their own towns in Gaza.
In Riyadh, meanwhile, Saudi foreign minister Saud al-Faisal is holding talks Monday with the Hamas bureau chief Khaled Meshal, summoned from Damascus where the conference of 17 rejectionist Palestinian organizations has just ended. This conversation will prepare the ground for Egyptian President Hosni
Mubarak’s meetings in Cairo Wednesday with a Hamas delegation.
Tehran, for its part, sent Iran’s foreign ministry director general Ali Asghar to Cairo Sunday, Jan. 27, to put its oar into the standoff. He was quickly received by Egyptian foreign minister Aboul Gheit. For three decades, Egypt and Iran have not had formal diplomatic relations, but in the last two months, their government ministers have met frequently and, last week, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad phoned Mubarak to discuss how Tehran could cooperate in solving the Gaza border issue.
Asghar brought to Cairo, according to our sources, an offer to airlift tons of foodstuffs and medicines to El Arish airport for Egyptian authorities to distribute to the Palestinians. This step would bring Iranian airplanes into the Egyptian-Israeli border region for the first time. Iran would thereby claim a stake in the lives of the Palestinians living around Israel’s borders for the entire Arab world to see.
No comments:
Post a Comment