'Egypt to control Gaza border'

Ynetnews ^ | 6/20/05 | Ilan Marciano

[Valin]

Prime minister Sharon tells Knesset Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee that Egypt will control buffer zone on Egypt-Gaza border and repeats promise that Gaza withdrawal won't take place under fire By Ilan Marciano

JERUSALEM – Egyptian forces would deploy along the Egypt-Gaza border after the upcoming pullout from the Gaza Strip this summer, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Monday.

Speaking to the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, he reiterated that Israel would ensure its pullout from Gaza would take place without attacks by Palestinian terrorists.

Sharon said Egypt would control the Philadelphi route, a buffer zone on the Egypt-Gaza border, without the need to amend Israel's existing 1979 peace agreement with Egypt.

Prior to the committee meeting, Palestinian terrorists shot and killed an Israeli in the West Bank, marking the latest in a series of

violent incidents that have increased in recent months despite a de facto truce by terrorists.

Israel is concerned terrorists in Gaza, who want to mark the pullout as a victory, may try to attack forces and settlers during the evacuation and has threatened to respond in kind if such assaults ensue. Sharon said Israel would make sure the pullout goes through smoothly.

“When I said there wouldn’t be a withdrawal under fire, I meant that the firing would be prevented and not the disengagement,” he told the committee.

Abbas 'powerless' to handle terrorists

Sharon plans to meet Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday to discuss coordination on Israel’s pullout from all 21 settlements in the Gaza Strip and four of 120 in the West Bank in August. The two leaders declared a cease-fire in February aimed at ending more than four years of bloodshed.

A senior intelligence officer told Sharon that Abbas was “not showing leadership or confronting the real problems” and would arrive at the summit out of weakness, with the knowledge that he is powerless to act against terrorist groups.

But the officer also said the Palestinians were doing their part to stop weapons-smuggling from Egypt to Gaza by terrorists, citing a drop in smuggling tunnels in buildings in Rafah.

[Nathan Zachary]

That's how it should be, since this unprecidented return of land (siezed from Egypt in the first place when it attacked Israel in 1967)is going to take place. It never was "Palestinian land" because there never was any such thing as a "Palestinian", just Egyptian Muslims. Let Egypt control it's criminal elements.
The "Palestinian lie" continues on....

[Valin]

there never was any such thing as a "Palestinian",

I think there large numbers of people living in the West Bank and Gaza who would disagree.

[steenkeenbadges]

Let my people go.

[SJackson]

If you'd like to be on this middle east/political ping list, please FR mail me.

[Little Ray]

"Fox to guard henhouse."

[dervish]

Here is what your own General has to say on what a bad move this is Mr Sharon:

http://www.meforum.org/article/630

[Brian Allen]

<< .... there never was any such thing as a "palestinian ... "

I think there are large numbers of [Egyptians, Lebanese, Syrians and Jordanese] ... living in [Sumaria, Judea] ... and Gaza who would disagree. >>

As 'Honest' Abe Lincoln [Who, was probably biased, given that he was named Abraham and was shot in the temple and was therefore quite likely a Jew? -- Or was it a poofter, I forgot already, already] once observed:

"If you call a dog's tail a leg, you may honestly observe that a dog has five legs. But," Abe continued, "the dog will actually still have only four legs, because no amount of calling a dog's tail a leg will make it so."

Just as no amount of calling the large numbers of Egyptian, Lebanese, Syrian and Jordanese Arabs who occupy large tracts of Sumaria, Judea and Gaza, "palestinians," will make them so.

Better -- and as accurate -- they be called five-legged dogs.

[RightWhale]

I think there large numbers of people living in the West Bank and Gaza who would disagree

The gene pool is very deep there. There is some of every nation that ever passed through, which includes everything except that tribe in the Amazon jungle that lived in total isolation for the past 10,000 years, and even that is not certain.