Posted on 08/27/2011 2:54:20 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
I think Israel should have made Egypt accept the Gazan Palestinians as a condition for taking back the Sinai. Of course, the Egyptians would have said "keep the Sinai", since they aren't stupid enough to let the Palestinians into their country.
Would that be the muslim brotherhood?
These knucledraggers understand just one language --- force.
Losers don't make demands.
Next time they try and fail, I hope Israel keeps at least a few hundred miles of the Sinai, in order to keep the koranimals a bit farther away from Eilat.
“So if they renew the claim does the US get the billions it wasted on Egypt since then back?”
Demand payment in bullion (gold or soup; either will soon be more valuable than the dollar).
We tried taking the whole Sinai in 1967, and after that June war, fought a continuous war of attrition with Egypt that eventually involved the USSR. No, this time we have to take Cairo, I think. And hold onto it and advance until we have unconditional surrender. Then we keep the Sinai and of course Eilat, and access to the Suez Canal. Oh, and let’s also annex Judah and Samaria, the Sinai, Golan and Ghaza, boot the PLO out of the former, and resign from the UN before they can make any more one-sided resolutions.
...agitating for the nation's caretaker junta to demand Israel surrender the port-city of Eilat... it lost the city to the nascent state of Israel in the wake of the Egyptian army's defeat in Israel's 1948 War of Independence, but after the 1979 Camp David Accords the claim was officially dropped... members of parliament (MPs) in Egypt decry the "Israeli plot to choke the Suez Canal to death." ...The 1967 Six-Day War broke out after Egypt closed the straits of Tiran and strangled the trade from Israel's southern port city of Eliat... this week, Abed el-Aziz Sayef a-Nasser... aide to the Egyptian foreign minister... director of the Egyptian Foreign Ministry's legal department. "Eilat, or by its former name Umm Rashrash, belongs to the Palestinians," ...His predecessor, Dr. Nabil el-Arab i, was the head of the Foreign Ministry's legal department and headed the delegation for negotiations at Taba. He also emphatically maintained: "Eilat belongs to the Palestinians."
Give ‘em a nice stretch of land next to that big canal, and let them control access jointly with Israel.
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