This doesn't look like it will end well. I wonder how Israel and the West will respond to this.
[quote]Egypt will permanently open the Rafah border crossing as part of its plans to ease the blockade on the Gaza Strip, the country's interim Foreign Minister, Nabil al-Arabi, said yesterday.
Mr Arabi said his country would take ''important steps to help ease the blockade'' within the next two weeks.
He said Egypt would no longer accept that the Rafah border - the Gaza Strip's only crossing that bypasses Israel - remain blocked, describing his country's decision to seal it off as ''shameful''.
Israel imposed its blockade on the Gaza Strip in 2006, further tightening it the following year when the Islamist Hamas movement seized control of the territory from forces loyal to Western-backed Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.
Since 2007, the enclave's 1.5 million people have relied on a web of tunnels beneath the Rafah border for most of their basic needs.
Read more: [url]http://www.smh.com.au/world/egypt-to-open-gaza-border-crossing-20110429-1e0qz.html[/url][/quote]
I am okay with this.
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more than okay actually.
This is a good thing, and if ignorant people want to complain about it then let them.
Didn't this raise the price of oil? Like the transporters had to move around the Gaza strip?
There goes Israeli-Egyptian relations.
[QUOTE=Tyrannosaur;29512007]This doesn't look like it will end well. I wonder how Israel and the West will respond to this.[/QUOTE]
They can go to hell, no country should be blocked like this
didn't they already announce this a month ago?
Excellent. About time someone stands up to Israel's shit.
oh why can't they just get on
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Since 2007, the enclave's 1.5 million people have relied on a web of tunnels beneath the Rafah border [B]for most of their basic needs[/B][/quote]Especially considering that, this is very good. I'm glad Mubarak is out; I was hoping the new Egyptian government would no longer share complicity in that illegal blockade.
[QUOTE=Tyrannosaur;29512007]This doesn't look like it will end well. I wonder how Israel and the West will respond to this.[/QUOTE]
Who gives a fuck what Israel or the West thinks, as long as the Egyptians search for weapons on the border.
Israel should stop the blockade. Israel will gain so much from stopping the blockade, it's just unbelievable they refuse to remove it.
Maybe then Gaza can be retaken by Fatah.
[quote]Since 2007, the enclave's 1.5 million people have relied on a web of tunnels beneath the Rafah border for most of their basic needs.[/quote]
I thought this suppose to be news rather than an opinion piece?
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Oh Starpluck, you're so obvious.
Late, I heard about this two days ago.
[QUOTE=Crhem van der B;29512987]I thought this suppose to be news rather than an opinion piece?
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Oh Starpluck, you're so obvious.[/QUOTE]
since you mention my name...
how is it opinion? just because it presents real facts you wish were false does not make an opinion.
U mad Israel? Whatcha gonna do?
[QUOTE=Starpluck;29513185]since you mention my name...
how is it opinion? just because it presents real facts you wish were false does not make an opinion.[/QUOTE]
If that statement was true everybody would have been dead by now in Gaza.
[QUOTE=Crhem van der B;29513286]If that statement was true everybody would have been dead by now in Gaza.[/QUOTE]
Not everyone, as mentioned in the article they rely on the tunnels to gain those basic necessities but there are indeed people dying as a result of the Israeli blockade.
Of course, children and babies are hit the hardest when they lack such essentials due to their age.
[URL]http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cif-green/2009/dec/09/gaza-children-palestinian-babies[/URL]
[URL]http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/MDE15/027/2009/en/e9892ce4-7fba-469b-96b9-c1e1084c620c/mde150272009en.pdf[/URL] (report on their restriction to water)
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Oh and half of the Palestinians in Gaza are actually malnourished: [URL]http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/half-of-palestinians-in-west-bank-and-gaza-malnourished-437343.html[/URL]
Having said that, this is why it does not constitute an opinion but rather a fact.
Very good news. Israel might not be happy about it, but Israel can go suck a dick.
They're opening it because the stargates to eternal life with ultimate knowledge and power have closed. Welcome to the New World Order, hell on Earth. Run by the Skull and Bones, also called The Order of Death.
Whatever, nothing is going to change anyway.
[QUOTE=THEMikeDurham;29515626]They're opening it because the stargates to eternal life with ultimate knowledge and power have closed. Welcome to the New World Order, hell on Earth. Run by the Skull and Bones, also called The Order of Death.[/QUOTE]
hail satan?
[QUOTE=Crhem van der B;29513286]If that statement was true everybody would have been dead by now in Gaza.[/QUOTE]
Crhem van der B, Israeli apologist 2011.
Woo! Go Egypt!
[QUOTE=Florence;29513285]U mad Israel? Whatcha gonna do?[/QUOTE]
Israel are gonna fuck some more shit up.
As we do.
[QUOTE=archangel125;29517408]Crhem van der B, Israeli apologist 2011.[/QUOTE]
archangel125, Hamas supporter 2011.
See, I can do that too.
[QUOTE=Crhem van der B;29524450]archangel125, Hamas supporter 2011.
See, I can do that too.[/QUOTE]
Except you are wrong.
This is nice news! I just hope they check the border properly so nothing extra gets fired in to Israel. That would suck.
this is good for gaza as long as egypt ensures that armaments don't go through. allowing armaments to go through the border will only result in israel responding.
[QUOTE=FalconKrunch;29524821]Except you are wrong.[/QUOTE]
great logic.
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