Posted on 11/04/2015 3:59:05 PM PST by Lera
Cairo has been pumping water into Gaza's underground network of tunnels to stop the flow of weapons from the coastal envoy to militants in Sinai.
GAZA - Mahmoud Bakeer speaks with despair about the night of the flash flood, when he screamed at his wife and five children to flee their home on Gaza's border with Egypt as the water rushed in.
They made it to safety during the flooding last week, but a network of Palestinian tunnels running under the frontier town of Rafah is now water-logged, destroyed by Cairo to sever what it says is a weapons smuggling route out of Gaza for Islamist insurgents in Egypt's Sinai desert.
For Bakeer, 61, the fact that Egypt, once a gateway to the world for Gaza's 1.8 million Palestinians, was behind his family's suffering, was particularly painful.
"We respect our neighbors, we love Egypt, but our neighbors are making our life harder," he said in his one-story unfinished cinder block house, around which water seeps and cracks in the ground are growing wider.
Egypt's pumping of salt water from the nearby Mediterranean into the tunnels is not only creating a mess as it rises to the surface. Palestinian officials say it is also contaminating water supplies as well as threatening to wreck farmland and spread disease.
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Egypt is ROCKIN!!!
You wrote Palis. I read Palins. Thought WTF does he have against the Palins? They’re in Alaska minding their own business most days.
Concur. While I have no love for the Egyptians, they and the Jordanians are about as good as it gets over in that region.
Israel made peace with Egypt after the 67 war..Sharm Al Sheikh used to belong to Israel, my Mom used to visit there as a child, but for peace we gave it to Egypt..so its good to have Egypt as an ally to fight these Hamas dirt bags
Muslimes surfing in the mudslime
Sara is attacked daily.
Can we do this at the border with Mexico?
Send them to Antarctica. Only the penguin would object!
The cows are in the corn and the shiites are drowning!
That would need one monster spring!
And how would you set it?
Maybe and explosive charge to drive the spikes downward.
:)
God will bless and keep Israel.
Isaiah 19
19 In that day there will be an altar to the Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar to the Lord near its border. 20 It will become a sign and a witness to the Lord of hosts in the land of Egypt; for they will cry to the Lord because of oppressors, and He will send them a Savior and a Champion, and He will deliver them. 21 Thus the Lord will make Himself known to Egypt, and the Egyptians will know the Lord in that day. They will even worship with sacrifice and offering, and will make a vow to the Lord and perform it. 22 The Lord will strike Egypt, striking but healing; so they will return to the Lord, and He will respond to them and will heal them.
23 In that day there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrians will come into Egypt and the Egyptians into Assyria, and the Egyptians will worship with the Assyrians.
24 In that day Israel will be the third party with Egypt and Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the earth, 25 whom the Lord of hosts has blessed, saying, âBlessed is Egypt My people, and Assyria the work of My hands, and Israel My inheritance.â
yes, and Israel has to grow up and say, SO WHAT!?
a government has a duty to defend its people and eliminate the enemy, regardless of all the bad publicity
Trump could sign an executive order directing any number of Federal agencies to immediately secure both the southern and northern borders in like manner, and there would be no constitutional crisis involved.
Nor would he require “congressional approval” before doing so.
It's up to the executive branch of government to determine how they will physically act to faithfully enforce the laws already on the books...
(Which also answers those who say Mexico won't beg for the chance to pay for a very well built wall...LOL!)
Egypt under Al Sisi appears more sane/stable than Turkey under Erdogon.
What with France and Germany openly lusting for an alliance with Iran, I have no problem with a USA exit from the no longer valid NATO... National alliances shift.
Al-Sisi is not exactly the image of tolerant democracy, but in that part of the world, a benevolent semi-dictatorship is maybe what is needed to give them a chance to evolve toward an appreciation of liberty and freedomâ¦â¦ and responsibility. In the American experience, the idea of liberty did not suddenly occur to people in the late 1700’s, it developed over a long period of time.
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