Gaza: Egyptians show their Moslem brethren some love.

Not.

On the frontier, guards were patrolling access roads while helmeted police with sniffer dogs used batons to beat the hoods of private cars and pickup trucks that massed at the border, trying to stop them from carrying Palestinians further into Egyptian territory.


Separated at birth twin Janice over at You heard it here... gives us CAIR's ACTION ALERT 529 where the unindicted terror co-conspirators:

CAIR is calling on "American Muslims and other people of conscience to urge their elected officials to immediately intervene to put an end to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza."

American Moslems? Hey, call upon the Egyptians about your so called humanitarian crisis? More like running out of cigarettes.

In the past two days, Gazans stocked up on supplies in Egypt, including cement, fuel, cigarettes and other staples.


And in what can only be described as the best Israeli idea of the year so far:


Israeli Deputy Defense Minister Matan Vilnai, meanwhile, caused a stir when he said Israel gradually wants to relinquish responsibility for Gaza now that a border fence with Egypt has been blown open.

Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Arye Mekel struck a similar tone, saying that once Gazans are getting supplies from elsewhere, there is less need for Israel to provide for them. Privately, Israeli officials said the border breach could pave the way for increasingly disconnecting from the territory.

And isn't charity a pillar of Islam? Well, it would seem the Egyptians aren't exactly being charitable when it comes to their Pali brothers.

Egypt angrily rejected the Israeli ideas, and said it would not change border arrangements.

"The border will go back as normal," said Egyptian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hossam Zaki, adding that Egypt had not been approached by Israel about a possible change in the status of Gaza.

Egypt has not yet indicated how it plans to reseal the border, but it would not be that difficult for it to rebuild some type of physical barrier fairly quickly. Egypt is highly unlikely to leave the border town of Rafah united, instead probably aiming to re-create some type of partition in roughly the same position as the old one. For now, it appeared Egypt was moving slowly, putting its forces in the area as a first step toward later pushing Gazans back and then re-erecting a barrier.


Look for the Egyptians to wash their hands of the Palis again like they did back in 2005...

In a previous major breach, after the Israeli pullout from Gaza in 2005, Egypt closed the border after four days and issued a deadline for Gazans to return home. Troops searched for, detained and fined stragglers who were then sent to their side of the border. Egypt also lined up armored personnel carriers and riot police as a makeshift border barrier, and eventually rebuilt a small border fence.