Comments on: The Hamas border breach: Planned for months http://www.yourish.com/2008/01/24/4302 Cutting straight to the point Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:14:34 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Ed Hausman http://www.yourish.com/2008/01/24/4302/comment-page-1#comment-30661 Ed Hausman Fri, 25 Jan 2008 08:36:59 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2008/01/24/4302#comment-30661 Way to go! Now the world can see what it should have known all along -- the Gazans have two borders: one with Israel, which whom they're at war, and another with Egypt, to whom they've belonged all along. What next? Draw down all supply links on an announced, reasonable schedule, and if Egypt doesn't take up the slack, tough luck. Problem remaining? Egypt may eventually send in troops and suppress any "Palestinian" government, just as they did when they were the sole ruling power there. BUT the Gazans will continue to rocket Israel. SO when Israel retaliates, it will be war ... with Egypt. Then Peres really will have to return his <i>Nobel Piece Price</i>. However, it's looking more and more as if the real big deal is not what Egypt will do to Gaza, but what Gaza will do to Egypt. Although they get aid from Iran now, Hamas was not set up by the Iranians, as Hizballah was. Hamas is an offshoot of that same Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood that gave rise to Ayman al-Zawahiri, bin Laden's buddy. Once they get enough of their own people moved into the Egyptian side of Rafah, they will establish tight coordination with the Muslim Brotherhood, and go into high gear destabilizing Egypt. Egypt is already very unstable. All those US arms are going to be in Hamas hands: tanks, planes, bombs. The next war between Israel and Egypt will be a war with a radical Islamist republic. We will see if anyone in Washington at the time -- it will come during the next administration -- has the sense to understand that American troops better be moving in to collect all the toys we gave Mubarak ... before he was assassinated. Way to go! Now the world can see what it should have known all along — the Gazans have two borders: one with Israel, which whom they’re at war, and another with Egypt, to whom they’ve belonged all along.

What next? Draw down all supply links on an announced, reasonable schedule, and if Egypt doesn’t take up the slack, tough luck.

Problem remaining? Egypt may eventually send in troops and suppress any “Palestinian” government, just as they did when they were the sole ruling power there. BUT the Gazans will continue to rocket Israel. SO when Israel retaliates, it will be war … with Egypt.

Then Peres really will have to return his Nobel Piece Price.

However, it’s looking more and more as if the real big deal is not what Egypt will do to Gaza, but what Gaza will do to Egypt. Although they get aid from Iran now, Hamas was not set up by the Iranians, as Hizballah was.

Hamas is an offshoot of that same Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood that gave rise to Ayman al-Zawahiri, bin Laden’s buddy. Once they get enough of their own people moved into the Egyptian side of Rafah, they will establish tight coordination with the Muslim Brotherhood, and go into high gear destabilizing Egypt.

Egypt is already very unstable. All those US arms are going to be in Hamas hands: tanks, planes, bombs. The next war between Israel and Egypt will be a war with a radical Islamist republic.

We will see if anyone in Washington at the time — it will come during the next administration — has the sense to understand that American troops better be moving in to collect all the toys we gave Mubarak … before he was assassinated.

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