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mhpine


Why not Egypt?

What's really amazed me is that Daniel Pipes has sunk to such a low level, that he now occupies the gutter. Of course, he's the guy who just wrote an article suggesting Israel "give Gaza back" to Eqypt. Not that he's consulted with the Egyptians

Really, of all the things Pipes has written, this bothers you?  Having Egypt take responsibility for keeping rockets flying out of Gaza may be a bad idea - but the alternatives are pretty horrific. (1) Hamas is the one firing the rockets to begin with - and plans on doing so until it achieves its objective - namely the end of Israel; (2) Fatah couldn't even keep itself from getting kicked out of Gaza, and wasn't particularly interested in sticking its neck out to stop the rockets from firing when it was in Gaza;  (3) Israeli re-occupation would involve IDF patrols of Gaza City, which no Palestinian or Israeli should want and (4) NATO soldiers would simply be a magnet for suicide bombers until they went home. 

That pretty much leaves finding someone with the incentive and capacity for keeping the rockets from getting fired.  Do you have a better candidate for that role than Egypt?





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