January 24, 2008
A WALL OF OZYMANDIAN PROPORTIONS:
Palestinians Savor Open Gaza Border (Jim Teeple, 24 January 2008, VOA News)
The once impregnable border between Gaza and Egypt seems a distant memory as tens of thousands of people flood in both directions across the remnants of a huge steel wall. It was constructed by Israeli military engineers to last for decades and toppled early Wednesday.Posted by Orrin Judd at January 24, 2008 6:32 PM
It's laughable that this guy implies the fence should have been impervious to high explosive. Also, that the press has attacked Israel (or sneered at them) when they haven't been in charge for months. The fence was built to keep out weapons when Gaza was occupied - why didn't Fatah or Hamas blow it up right after the IDF withdrew?
Hint - Egypt would not have let them. Now, with "starvation" being bandied about, Mubarak couldn't put it right back up again.
Posted by: jim hamlen at January 24, 2008 8:26 PMI say let Egypt take over Gaza, that's how it was in '48 after the first war, and how it was informally before. Hamas is the Muslim Brotherhood
(Ilkwan) in action; the late Sheik Yassin, was an
Ahzari; a graduate of the prestigious Hambali school Al Azhar university
The use of "impregnable" is pretty funny, too.
M. Maginot would have been amused. But, as some have already suggested, Egypt will put the border back in place quickly if it has to 'administer' it (and provide services to Gaza).
Posted by: ratbert at January 24, 2008 10:28 PMAre the "shoppers" paying for the stuff, or merely liberating it?
Posted by: erp at January 26, 2008 4:25 PM