Sometimes the most telling news is not in the main part of the news story. Here is a short passage from a news item released an hour or so ago on Gaza:
A Hamas delegation is currently in Cairo for talks on a Western-backed proposal drawn up by President Hosni Mubarak on how to end the fighting.
A senior official in Cairo indicated Egypt was getting increasingly frustrated at Hamas's response so far to its initiative.
"We're working seriously with Hamas, we need to end the vagueness and they need to say 'yes', now, to our plan," the Egyptian diplomat told AFP on condition of anonymity.
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Egypt and Saudi Arabia blocked a proposal by Qatar for an extraordinary summit on the crisis later this week by saying discussions should instead take place at a summit in Kuwait already scheduled for January 19.
Egypt has a clear border with Gaza and has kept that border sealed pretty tight; why?
Because Egypt (and it appears Saudi Arabia) are more concerned with Hamas in Gaza (and thereby Iran in Gaza) than ending the fighting on terms that might favour Hamas. Israel is hardly an ally of either Egypt or Saudi Arabia but perhaps the enemy of my enemy is my friend?
3 comments:
I think Hamas' long association with the Muslim Brotherhood is probably more worrying for Eygpt than any alleged links to Iran.
The Muslim Brotherhood being more popular with Eygptians than the autocratic Egyptian government and would win a fair election there handily.
Not that this is something for Canadians to cheer.
But. It's always better to try and understand a situation's reality than engage in misleading fantasies about that reality.
Like blaming Iran for Israel's problems. Or listening to Peter Kent.
wsam
I must agree (my last comment got cut off so I deleted it). The views of the Egyptian government and the people differ vastly. That's exactly why the government is behaving the way it is.
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