Hamas explodes a giant hole in Egypt's political cover [View All]

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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/02/03/MN5OUPTCD.DTL

Like every Arab state, Egypt professes great concern for the Palestinian cause. Every day, the state-controlled press fills its pages with woeful tales of Palestinian suffering. As an example, just before the fence fell, the Cairo paper Al-Ahram lamented that "Gaza is now effectively cut off from the world, plunged into darkness and hostage to the whims of Israel's air commanders and their weapons."

But the moment Hamas presented Egypt with a chance to relieve all of that suffering, Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian president, instead sent 20,000 truncheon-wielding police to seal the border. When that didn't work, the government blocked the resupply of food and other goods to the Egyptian border towns Rafah and El Arish, where hundreds of thousands of Gazans had streamed in previous days to buy supplies.
Still, Cairo sang its flowery song of support.

"The Egyptian decision has been to allow the sons of Gaza to relieve their suffering," Ahmed Aboul Gheit, the Egyptian foreign minister, intoned last weekend.
If anyone holds any doubts about Egypt's true view of the Palestinians, consider again what happened when Israel and Egypt made peace following Israel's capture of the Sinai and Gaza in the 1967 Six-Day War. In 1979, Egypt negotiated the return of the Sinai. As for Gaza, Egypt refused to take it back.
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now that hamas has made it clear that there is a southern border and its and egyptian/gaza border (though i'm sure i will still hear how israel really controls it....) and that its egypt and hama that decides who opens and closes....we shall see egyptians true "friendship" with the Palestinians.....