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Egypt To ‘Break Legs’ Of Gaza Infiltrators

From an outraged and confused AFP:


Palestinian youths gather at the border between Egypt and the southern Gaza Strip in the divided town of Rafah.

Egypt threatens to break the legs of Gaza infiltrators

CAIRO (AFP) — Egypt said on Thursday it would no longer tolerate Palestinians infiltrating the country from the Gaza Strip, and threatened to break the legs of anyone crossing the Rafah border illegally.

“Anyone who breaches the border will have their legs broken,” Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit was quoted as saying by the official MENA news agency on public television overnight.

Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians living in the impoverished Gaza Strip, subjected to a punishing Israeli blockade, crossed freely into Egypt after Islamist militants from Hamas blew apart border barriers late last month.

Abul Gheit said Egypt had allowed the Palestinians to flood across the border for humanitarian reasons only.

He blamed Israel for the situation in Gaza, accusing the Jewish state of imposing collective punishment on the territory, home to 1.5 million Palestinians, in response to rocket attacks by militants.

Abul Gheit also reproached Hamas for firing rockets into Israel, describing the standoff as a “laughable caricature.”

The minister said some rockets misfire and hit the Gaza Strip itself, wounding Palestinians and merely providing Israel with a pretext to attack.

Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhum, responding to the remarks, said that “rather than criticise the resistance one should provide aid to the resistance and to the Palestinian people, because it defends the entire Islamic nation.” …

This can’t be right. Aren’t we told that Palestinian are welcome everywhere in the world?

And why shouldn’t they be? They make such excellent neighbors.

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This article was posted by Steve Gilbert on Thursday, February 7th, 2008 at 7:36 am. You can leave a response.

3 Responses to “Egypt To ‘Break Legs’ Of Gaza Infiltrators”

  1. SG
    February 7th, 2008 at 2:43 pm

    From Israel’s YNet:

    Egypt: Gazans used forged bills in Sinai

    Security sources report $1 million in counterfeit bills brought into country while Egypt-Gaza border was breached

    Roee Nahmias

    About $1 million in counterfeit bills, apparently originating in the Gaza Strip, were seized in the Sinai Peninsula in the past few days, Egyptian security sources told Palestinian news agency Ma’an on Thursday.

    According to the sources, hundreds of counterfeit bills, which are being used by merchants amongst themselves or in their dealings with the Egyptian banks, are being discovered every day.

    The Egyptian security sources estimated that additional forged banknotes would be discovered in the near future in light of the fact that Egyptian residents – mainly in the el-Arish, Rafah and Sheikh Zweid areas – are expected to use the money they received from Gaza residents in exchange for the various goods they sold them.

    Meanwhile, the sources said, it is impossible to determine the total amount of forged money transferred to Egypt, as not all of them have been reused.

    According to the sources, the Egyptians received warnings regarding counterfeit bills making their way into Sinai immediately after Hamas gunmen breached the Gaza-Egypt border, and these warnings were delivered to the merchants, most of whom made sure to examine the money.

    Egyptian officials have said that the Rafah crossing would not be breached again, and that next time it would only be opened legally.

    “Sinai is a holy place for Egyptian citizens and is not saleable or merchandisable,” an official said…

    http://tinyurl.com/2sgn8u

    How hilarious.

  2. texaspsue
    February 7th, 2008 at 10:11 pm

    Now THAT’S securing the border! Dang!

  3. MilkBone
    February 7th, 2008 at 10:27 pm

    A million in fake bills? Damn.

    OT:
    Berkeley(sp?), California sucks.
    http://www.nbc11.com/news/1524.....dlineclick

    Americans for Progress and International Justice At The Expense of America and Americans Code Pink Jane Fonda just announced…

    Screw it. Some of the Liberal Freaks still want their federal freebies.

    Hopefully the money will still go to the Marines.


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