| Unclear means the schedule will be discusses at an undefined later date -- very much jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today. |
Egypt opened the Rafah crossing point Saturday for three days on a humanitarian basis for the first time since Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", ceded control of Gazoo’s crossings with Israel and Egypt to the Western-backed PA.
In 2007, Hamas wrested control of Gazoo by force, provoking an Israeli-Egyptian blockade that severely restricted the movement of most of Gazoo’s 2 million inhabitants.
Hamas, a terrorist group which seeks Israel’s destruction, withdrew from the crossings on November 1, implementing the first step of an Egyptian-brokered deal to end the rift with PA President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial...’s Fatah party.
The day the PA retook control of Gazoo’s crossings, it announced the Rafah crossing would be permanently reopened on November 15, after years of Cairo allowing only intermittent exit through the vital passageway.
However,
today is that tomorrow you were thinking about yesterday...
the crossing has remained closed until Saturday, and it was not clear when the permanent reopening would take place.
Talks are to resume in Cairo this month to discuss the PA’s expansion of its rule over Gazoo and broader national issues. The PA is supposed to retake full civil control of the Gazoo Strip by December 1, ending 10 years of Hamas rule over the enclave.
The hold-up at the border is apparently due to ongoing disagreements between the PA and Hamas over security arrangements in the Strip.
Hamas is refusing to disarm its military wing as Abbas wants.
| And since they never will disarm, since being armed is their reason to exist, not to mention it keeps the PA from arresting them all, or worse... |
The PA wants to implement a 2005 agreement that would see European observers stationed at the Rafah Crossing, as well as security coordination with Israel.
Security in the Sinai Peninsula, where Egyptian security forces have been fighting a branch of the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
group, is also thought to be one of Cairo’s concerns.
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