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jpost.com - 1/23/2009

Don't count on Egypt to stop weapons smuggling | Op-Ed Contributors | Jerusalem Post

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Conventional wisdom posits that Egypt must and will play a central role in halting the smuggling of weapons from Sinai to Gaza. Yet this is extraordinarily unlikely - for strategic, political and Egyptian domestic reasons. Egypt does not mind if Hamas bleeds Israel a little; it gains ...

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haaretz.com - 1/17/2009

Israel's Cabinet to vote Saturday on unilateral Gaza truce - Haaretz - Israel News ...

— haaretz.com — Israel is very close to securing the objectives of its 22-day-old offensive in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, Defense Minister Ehud Barak said on Saturday, according to French News Agency AFP. "After three weeks of Operation Cast Lead, we are very close ... (more) Israel's Cabinet to vote Saturday on ...

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nytimes.com - 1/18/2009

Gaza Skirmishes Continue Despite Cease-Fire

— nytimes.com — JERUSALEM — Hamas and other Palestinian militant groups in Gaza announced an immediate, week-long cease-fire in the conflict with Israel on Sunday, about 12 hours after an Israeli unilateral cease-fire went into effect. The Palestinian groups said in ... (more) Gaza Skirmishes Continue Despite Cease-Fire

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turcopolier.typepad.com - 1/18/2009

An inevitable outcome in Gaza

— turcopolier.typepad.com — "Hamas officials were set to hold talks in Cairo with Egyptian mediators to hear the Israeli response to proposals put forward by the Islamist group that rules the Gaza Strip.Hamas has offered a one-year, renewable truce on condition that all... (more) An inevitable outcome in Gaza

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What Would Real--Rather Than Rhetorical--Change in U.S. Foreign Policy Look Like?
The Belgravia Dispatch — ... In short it is high time to cease the hapless by-standing (pre-Annapolis), or alternately, the empty spectacle (Annapolis), and instead roll up our sleeves and get to the hard work of forging a comprehensive Arab-Israeli peace without a moment’s delay, and with relentless energy (without getting bogged down necessarily in a months long series of anti-smuggling discussions with the Egyptians, in large part a waste of time given factors such as these, rather than focusing on the larger strategic picture). Such hard toil can and likely will pay-off (see Camp David, Madrid, Oslo, ...

Why Egypt will never fight arms smuggling
Israel Matzav — Why Egypt will never fight arms smuggling [image] Efraim Inbar and Mordechai Keidar have an important article in Friday's JPost that explains why Egypt will never - and indeed cannot - fight arms smuggling on Israel's behalf. It's partly about the fact that Egypt isn't really interested in peace with us because they view us as a rival. But there are other factors involved . EGYPT'S double game is also the result of a complex reality in the Sinai Peninsula. As with other Third World states, the Egyptian government is not fully in control of its territory. Thus, an international agreement on ending arms smuggling from Sinai into Gaza will face considerable problems of ...