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...might work. At some level someone in Egypt is complicit in smuggling weapons into Gaza. Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, the main opposition party, still looks at Hamas as its Palestinian branch. Iran and Hizballah have been soliciting Egypt's cooperation in more help for Gaza. Will Egyptian President Mubarak be able to hold the line, keep a lid on Gaza, when Israel itself...
...before, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak had faced the Arab world's wrath when his riot police attacked Palestinian women protesting the closed border. Mubarak wasn't about to do it again, despite pressure from Israel and the U.S. The Egyptian President said he ordered his troops to "let them come to eat and buy food and go back, as long as they are not carrying weapons...
...previous day, President Housni Mubarak faced the wrath of the Arab world when his riot police used clubs and water hoses to attack Palestinian women pleading for Egypt to open the Rafah crossing in Gaza. And despite pressure from Israel and the United States, Mubarak wasn't about to order his men to use force to restrain Palestinians rendered desperate by Israel's siege. The Egyptian President said he ordered his troops to "let them come to eat and buy food and go back, as long as they are not carrying weapons...
...President Bush's attempts to corral other Arabs into his peace initiative also took a hit because of Gaza. On Monday, pro-Hamas protests spread throughout the Middle East, and even Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak - no friend of the Palestinian Islamists - reportedly called Israeli officials and asked them to lift the Gaza blockade. On Tuesday Egyptian police clashed with Palestinian protesters, who tried to force open Egypt's locked gate with Gaza at the Rafah crossing. At least 50 protesters, many of them women, were injured...
...increasingly mixed message, amplified by the intense media coverage of his trip. For example, in Dubai he gave what the White House billed as a landmark speech calling for "democratic freedom in the Middle East." But during his last stop in Sharm el-Sheikh Wednesday, he lauded President Hosni Mubarak as an experienced, valued strategic partner for regional peace and security and made no mention of Cairo's ongoing crackdown on opponents and critics - and the continuing imprisonment of Mubarak's main opponent in the 2005 presidential election. "He is saying he supports the presidents and the governments...