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Despite an Israeli economic blockade in place to limit traffic to and from the Gaza Strip, an Egyptian court has ruled that Cairo must allow humanitarian aid and supplies to enter Gaza via the Rafah Border Crossing (Afrique en ligne).

The Question here is what kind of aid should be allowed into Gaza!

Egyptian security forces on Friday found a ton of explosives which they said were apparently destined for Gaza.

An Egyptian security official said that the forces spotted the explosives in an underground hideout in central Sinai after receiving a tip-off from locals. (Haaretz)

Again the Pals are smuggeling peaceful means into Gaza…

Ynet News reported that US and Egyptian soldiers paired up in recent weeks in a project to uncover Palestinian weapons’ smuggling tunnels; 42 tunnels discovered in less than a month.

But how many tunnel are there between Gaza and Egypt?

The Daily Telegraph reports that on some estimates there are now up to 500 passageways across to Egypt, mostly clustered around the town of Rafah, which straddles the border.

So lets do the maths:

42:500 = 8.4% - Oops!

That’s less than 10%. That doesn’t sound like American technology is stopping Hamas? No wonder the flow of weapons into Gaza doesn’t stop.

Israel’s intelligence community has deemed Egypt and Jordan as representing the highest level of insurgency threat in the Middle East.
The Israeli Counter-Terrorism Bureau has determined that Egypt and Jordan were the most dangerous countries for Israeli visitors. The bureau, in its semi-annual report, said Egypt and Jordan represented the second and fourth greatest insurgency threats to Israeli nationals.

The supply of gas to Israel from its Egyptian neighbor was stopped on Friday, and as of Wednesday morning it had not yet been resumed, prompting some in Israel to fear that its main supplier of natural gas is running low on the resource. (Arutz 7)

WAIT—didn’t we give away Sinai to the Egyptians—INCLUDING THREE OIL FIELDS (solely discovered and developed by Israel) —in exchange for peace and an agreement for energy?

This is a stab in the back for Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert, defense minister Ehud Barak and his political adviser, Amos Gilead and their policy of heavy reliance on Egyptian mediation for holding down Hamas aggression from the Gaza Strip and securing the release of the kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilead Shalit.

The Hezbollah is listed by the UN and many nations as a terrorist organization.

Egypt should now face the same isolation that other countries face if they are in contact with terror groups.