What a difference a year makes.
Egypt, 'the army of the Arabs,' was about to support its cousins, the other Muslim Brotherhood, .....
Israel-haters were rubbing their hands together in anticipation....
....but things look very different today.
1. "After evicting the Muslim Brotherhood from power, the second Egyptian revolution is rallying for what could be an historic act divorce from all things Palestinian.
2. ....influential voices are now calling for an expulsion of Palestinians from Egypts military and police academies and its universities, a suspension of visas to all Palestinians, and an end of mediation between bickering Palestinian factions and in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
3. .... Gaza strip, which is next door to Egypt and is ruled by the Islamist Hamas movement. Hamas....is now alleged by a vast part of Egyptians to conspire against their second revolution.
4. .... the assassination by Hamas of 20 army soldiers and officers in the Sinai desert a year ago. The killings took place during the holy month of Ramadan. Since the demonstrations on June 30, Hamas has again been named culpable in a killing, this time a top counterterrorism senior commander and four army soldiers in Sinai.
5. .....Hamas fighters joined President Morsis Muslim Brotherhood in attacking and killing secular demonstrators in several places. These include Tahrir square, around Mr. Morsis erstwhile presidential palace in the suburb of Heliopolis and elsewhere in Cairo, Alexandria, Port Said and Suez. Regardless of evidence, these allegations have become facts to a majority of Egyptians.
6. Egypts army has shut down the Rafah border-crossing, the only entry and exit point not controlled by Israel for the 1.7 million Palestinians crowded into the Gaza strip, blocking their access to the world.
a. ....the army aggressively moved to arrest scores of Palestinians trying to slip into the country via underground tunnels.....all were caught carrying weapons and explosives and, more importantly, false Egyptian identity cards produced, he stressed, by Hamas.
7. The most ominous move for the Palestinians has been a declaration by Egypts government-owned newspaper as well the independent press that 16 Egyptian border guards and officers who were assassinated in cold blood a year ago in the Sinai were killed by Hamas operatives. The official press alleged the Morsi government averted its eyes for a whole year to protect its Muslim Brotherhood Hamas partners,.....
8. What this adds up to is, in effect, a walkout by Egypt from the so-called peace process conducted by United States and its globetrotting state secretary, Senator Kerry. What continues to happen in Sinai and with Palestinians from Gaza has removed any enthusiasm to help all Palestinians and has stirred instead talk of revenge.....prospects fade for an independent Palestinian country.
9. .... these developments paralleled a growing backlash against President Obama and the American ambassador in Cairo, Anne Patterson. Both were denounced by a sea of demonstrators on June 30 as supporters of, or collaborators with, the Muslim Brotherhood.
10. ...Palestinians, especially those of Hamas, still talk of a another Intifadah against Israel, but the heart is not in it given the letdown of the first and second uprisings, which produced a destruction of Palestinian livelihood and no gains...... Palestinians are very lonesome out there."
Egypt Could Divorce Palestinian Arabs in Wake of Second Revolution - The New York Sun
And.....here is Egypt's message to the Palestinians....via Dikembe Mutombo:
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_0fyUYB3cA]GEICO Dikembe Mutombo Commercial - Happier Than Dikembe Mutombo Blocking a Shot - YouTube[/ame]
Egypt, 'the army of the Arabs,' was about to support its cousins, the other Muslim Brotherhood, .....
Israel-haters were rubbing their hands together in anticipation....
....but things look very different today.
1. "After evicting the Muslim Brotherhood from power, the second Egyptian revolution is rallying for what could be an historic act divorce from all things Palestinian.
2. ....influential voices are now calling for an expulsion of Palestinians from Egypts military and police academies and its universities, a suspension of visas to all Palestinians, and an end of mediation between bickering Palestinian factions and in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
3. .... Gaza strip, which is next door to Egypt and is ruled by the Islamist Hamas movement. Hamas....is now alleged by a vast part of Egyptians to conspire against their second revolution.
4. .... the assassination by Hamas of 20 army soldiers and officers in the Sinai desert a year ago. The killings took place during the holy month of Ramadan. Since the demonstrations on June 30, Hamas has again been named culpable in a killing, this time a top counterterrorism senior commander and four army soldiers in Sinai.
5. .....Hamas fighters joined President Morsis Muslim Brotherhood in attacking and killing secular demonstrators in several places. These include Tahrir square, around Mr. Morsis erstwhile presidential palace in the suburb of Heliopolis and elsewhere in Cairo, Alexandria, Port Said and Suez. Regardless of evidence, these allegations have become facts to a majority of Egyptians.
6. Egypts army has shut down the Rafah border-crossing, the only entry and exit point not controlled by Israel for the 1.7 million Palestinians crowded into the Gaza strip, blocking their access to the world.
a. ....the army aggressively moved to arrest scores of Palestinians trying to slip into the country via underground tunnels.....all were caught carrying weapons and explosives and, more importantly, false Egyptian identity cards produced, he stressed, by Hamas.
7. The most ominous move for the Palestinians has been a declaration by Egypts government-owned newspaper as well the independent press that 16 Egyptian border guards and officers who were assassinated in cold blood a year ago in the Sinai were killed by Hamas operatives. The official press alleged the Morsi government averted its eyes for a whole year to protect its Muslim Brotherhood Hamas partners,.....
8. What this adds up to is, in effect, a walkout by Egypt from the so-called peace process conducted by United States and its globetrotting state secretary, Senator Kerry. What continues to happen in Sinai and with Palestinians from Gaza has removed any enthusiasm to help all Palestinians and has stirred instead talk of revenge.....prospects fade for an independent Palestinian country.
9. .... these developments paralleled a growing backlash against President Obama and the American ambassador in Cairo, Anne Patterson. Both were denounced by a sea of demonstrators on June 30 as supporters of, or collaborators with, the Muslim Brotherhood.
10. ...Palestinians, especially those of Hamas, still talk of a another Intifadah against Israel, but the heart is not in it given the letdown of the first and second uprisings, which produced a destruction of Palestinian livelihood and no gains...... Palestinians are very lonesome out there."
Egypt Could Divorce Palestinian Arabs in Wake of Second Revolution - The New York Sun
And.....here is Egypt's message to the Palestinians....via Dikembe Mutombo:
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_0fyUYB3cA]GEICO Dikembe Mutombo Commercial - Happier Than Dikembe Mutombo Blocking a Shot - YouTube[/ame]
