Egypt helping Israel’s enemies

Say, those 80 Hamas terrorists that Egypt let through the Rafah crossing? Turns out they got military training in Iran. Peachy.

Israel has issued a message to Egypt expressing the seriousness with which it regards Cairo’s decision to allow at least 80 Hamas members to cross into Gaza last Sunday, because some of those who crossed have recently undergone extensive military training in Iran and Syria, security sources said.

And oh, yeah—Egypt is lying about breaking its peace treaty with Israel.

An Israeli spokesman said that Egypt appeared to want to play down its level of coordination with Hamas, and Israel was told that those who crossed on Sunday had broken through the border fence.

Those crossing into the Gaza Strip included senior members of the organization’s political leadership, Palestinian sources told Haaretz on Monday.

Say, Jimmy Carter, where’s your sense of outrage over this? Oh, no, I didn’t really mean it. Everyone knows you only get outraged when Jews are the ones doing something that you see as wrong.

Also in the group were members of Iz al-Din al-Qassam, the military wing of Hamas, who had undergone training in camps in Iran and Syria.

Israeli security sources expressed concern that these “experts” were allowed into the Strip because of their ability to bolster terrorist organizations in specialties such as rocket and mortar attacks, sophisticated explosive devices, sniping, and commando raids.

So why did Egypt suddenly decide to let them back in after months of refusing? Bribe.

However, the independent Palestinian news agency Maan reported Monday that Egypt had agreed to the crossing of the Hamas members following a deal that had been struck between Egyptian intelligence and the group.

According to the report, an Al-Qaida militant who had fled to the Gaza Strip from Asyut, a city in southern Egypt, had been handed over to Egyptian authorities by Hamas. In return Egypt allowed the entry of dozens of Hamas members into the Strip.

And why did the terrorists want so badly to come back now? Gee, let’s think. Why would Hamas need Iranian-trained terrorists specializing in rocket and mortar attacks, IEDs, sniping, and commando raids.

Earlier Wednesday, Defense Minister Ehud Barak said that Israel was moving closer to carrying out a large-scale military operation in Gaza in order to put a stop to cross-border rocket and mortar barrages into Israel.

Uh-huh.

No way this ends well.