Egypt wants to get super-active and try to broker a cease fire between Israel and Hamas.
Diplomatic sources in Jerusalem revealed Wednesday that Egypt has decided to take an active role in stopping Hamas from gaining more power in Gaza Strip.
Cairo, said the sources, decided to step in before Israel decides on a large-scale operation in Gaza.
The Egyptians reportedly relayed a message to that effect to US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who visited the country as part of her Mideast tour.
Why? Egypt knows that Hamas wants only to strengthen its position, smuggle in more weapons, more money, more ammunition, more explosives, and finally launche the multi-front war against Israel. So why would Egypt want to broker this peace? Is it to tame their own Muslim Brotherhood problem? Because you know that Egypt knows Hamas will never sign a peace treaty with Israel. Hamas wants the destruction of Israel. Period.
Palestinian sources told the Reuters news agency that Egyptian Intelligence Minister Omar Suleiman will submit a ceasefire bid between Hamas and Israel by next week. The bid will reportedly include the halt of all violence, as well as reopening the Gaza crossings.
Yeah, this is the same guy who held the failed mediations between Hamas and Fatah. This is the same guy who’s been holding talks on releasing Gilad Shalit. This is the same state that held a terrorism conference, sorry, anti-terrorism conference and failed to get the terrorists to stop murdering Israelis, or even to promise to do so. That last link? It’s from 2003. The Egyptians have failed, failed, failed, and failed again when it comes to getting terrorists to stop trying to kill Jews. So why on earth would Ehud Olmert give the Egyptians the time of day in this regard?
Un-
be-
lievable.
Really, I swear, Israel totally suffers from abused spouse syndrome. She keeps getting hit and coming back for more, over and over and over again.
You want the real reason for the cease fire? Because Egypt’s own people won’t stand by quietly for another Gaza operation.
According to the Jerusalem sources, the Egyptian bid is the reason that the security cabinet refrained from ordering a large-scale operation in Gaza at this time, creating a political horizon – at least where the questions of the smugglings from the Philadelphi Route and Israel’s opening the Gaza crossings are concerned.
Egypt doesn’t give a damn about the Palestinians. Egypt doesn’t give a damn about Israel. Egypt has only self-interest at heart here.
And oh, yeah. Hamas has never stuck with a cease fire. Not ever.
Really, Israelis. You need to fire your government and hire a new one.
Six months after the last rocket. That’s when you talk.
Tell Egypt that either they get Hamas to stop or they will get a massive refugee flow from Gaza into Egypt when Zahal strikes Gaza to stop Hamas. It’s up to them.
The US could encourage the process by stopping any aid to Egypt until they have stepped on Hamas. When Mubarak and his consiglieri don’t have the transfers to their Swiss bank accounts going out every month, from what they’ve skimmed from our aid transfers, they’ll start paying attention.