Warning: This post was not intently made to compete with Chxta...It grew without any previous planning.
First, Ahmed, please try to differentiate between you and the Egyptian government in your coming posts (I mean try not to use "we" as a proverb for you and the Egyptian government together" because you simply may have some objections to their decisions. You are not a representative of Egyptian government here, Are you? I'm asking you this because I don't want my criticism to the Egyptian government to be considered on you by any way.
valid points abed, no off course i have to agree that food and medicine has to pass thru gaza bec quite simply they will never reach the Palestinians if they went thru isreal. in the article you posted above it says the remaining 50 vehicles are not the food and medicine vehicles and yes i know this is illogical but these are the rules abed why cant they just be followed to avoid egyptains giving the people in the convoy a hard time, and give every one else sth to get angry about. the conclusion is yes i agree food, and medicine should be allowed thru gaza and not isreal.
Where did the article say that those vehicles were not for food and medicine??
If the rules are wrong, should we obey them just because they are rules?? Pardon me, Ahmed, but I don't like that logic. I totally understand that it is your country and you have to defend it and defend its rules as much as you can, but defend it from what?? From drugs and weapons coming from Gaza? Do you really think that Gaza can produce these things originally? Where will Gaza have drugs and weapons from as it is isolated from the whole world, no place to plant drugs and no factories for weapons?
this is the part i dont quite agree with u about. i dont think egypt tries to be the central player in this region, bec we are the central player abed and as much as we egyptains hate it we are the ones who have to take that role for several reasons, like for example: demographical reasons , geographical reasons, historical reasons, and finally religous reasons.
i know you r pretty aware of these reasons and u know where egypt lies in each one of them.
egypt does'nt impose anything abed, if it did, dont you think the arabs would've went to camp david with us??? and lets be realistic abed when sadat went he went after telling the arabs as a whole that he was going and they were the ones who refused to go. the funny thing is the years passed off course with egypt being kicked out of the arab league and the issues that came after the signing but as i was saying its funny that now after all these years there are arab countries with no borders with isreal who have relations with the the jewish state. its also rather hilarious jordan after opposing the egyptain move for peace, went on in 94 and signed a peace agreement with the isreali's. u know abed the problem is its easy for other countries to say egypt is bad, egypt is not with us blah blah bec at the end should a war start its us who suffer not any one else. i really really am dying for some one to give me an answer to why no one says this to syria who have :
1- no peace agreement with isreal
2- has occupied land hence have a reason to make a military move
3- does not take an american funds, hell its not even one fo the americans allies
I never said other Arab governments are better, but no one of them forbids food and medicine to get into Palestine.
never mind this part abed, the arabs said no we wont go with you sadat, what have the rest of the arabs reached??? syria has yet to make a move for its occupied land since 73, palestine is still occupied with no solution for the refuges in the near future as it is. i think it was worth a try had all the arabs agreed to go forward when egypt went to get its land and that happened at the end of the day i agree def with you egypt did'nt get it with out giving up on a lot of things and as i had mentioned earlier isreal gained more but we also moved forward bec this country was torn by wars since 1948.
Ok, you are saying that Arabs should have tried, but in the reality Arabs, other than Egypt, have tried since 1991 to go in the peace process. Israel was always not taking them seriously as it knew they can not fight it, so there is no point in giving them anything in lieu of the lands. We all saw that:
1- Egypt got Sinai back, but without a real authority. Sinai is well-protected by Egyptian soldiers to protect Israel from the west. Israel does not want more than that. It is desert, anyway, and not that important region to take control of. Egypt presents gas to Israel as a gift with less than its production cost since more than 20 years. Those factories which uses Egyptian gas are the factories that make the Israeli weapons.
2- Don't tell me Jordan made something out of the peace process, because simply it did not. Jordan got back few kilometers in Baqura region but is forced to protect hundreds of kilometers with Israel from the east. Jordan is begging to take water each year from Israel, and Israel uses water as a way to make pressure on Jordan in order to keep calm all the time and not refuse anything made by Israelis. Jordan has no resources at all, so alone, Jordan is not considered an independent country, and consequently can do nothing on the world map except "fighting terrorism".
3- Palestinian authority: They got nothing from peace process too. For more, please see the current situation in the West Bank and Gaza. make more focus on refugees, settlements and Jerusalem.
4- other countries like Qatar, Oman, Morocco, and Mauritania: No comment about what they got from their peace process.
since 1948 abed egypt was involved in all the wars against isreal so i think we deserve to be the central country in the region and i think we deserve to have our own stand regarding all of this. by this i dont mean we should not allow food and medicine to pass
Well, all the countries in the region took part in the relevant wars, not only Egypt, so do all the countries deserve to be central countries? If so, where will we bring non-central countries to the region from?
but i think is enough that when ever sth happens we get the wrap for it even though we r the same ones trying to help the palestinians unite so peace talks can start bec as thigns stand there is nothing that will stop isreal from taking more land and killing more civilians.
Egypt does not help Palestinians to unite now, Ahmed. It helps corrupt Fateh to keep ruling the Palestinians using force, and tries to enforce what Fateh wants on Hamas. It is not a neutral country. I mean the government here.
On the other hand, we know that Egyptian normal people really want unity in Palestine, and we really appreciate that.
now with this said i want to really really know what you want this country to do abed give me points. what do u think should egypt do?
Nice question:
1- To allow food and medicine to get into Gaza.
2- To allow sick people to leave Gaza to get their medical treatments whenever needed, not once each three months.
3- To stop supporting Abbas's corrupt authority against the well of the majority which elected Hamas.
4- To free all the Palestinian prisoners in Egypt, or at least not hurting them.
5- To stop its coordination with Israel to gather information about resistants in Gaza by interrogating people from Gaza.
6- To stop exporting gas to Israel.
I won't ask them to send weapons to free Palestine, Ahmed. Don't worry, but I think the previous requests are reasonable.
the second thing is why is it only when it comes to egypt that the arab world unites against bashing and doubting us?? i mean egypt wants to close the tunnels thats there right bec i think u mis-understood me when i said weapons being transferred thru the tunnels, i meant the other way around not gaza's direction. i cant back up this claim but this is one of the reasons why egypt is moving forward with this tunnel bec as we both agreed egypt and hamas are the key problem here.
You said that the justification is not logical at all. I replied on this point above.
last summer there was the hezbollah move with trying to get weapons across egypt thats not allowed and i think its only fair that egypt disagree on this.
That has nothing to do with Palestinians, so why sieging Gaza?
another thing abed is the incident that happened last year when the gaza war started when hamas rioted people into breaking thru the egyptain borders. that is an assault on a country abed, yes i understand gaza was under fire and people have no where to go but once again it was hamas who brought this on them selves not the other way around.
Try to put 5 guys in a small room for one month, and see what their reaction is. People could not take that for long and tried to express themselves. It was not Hamas that initiated that, but maybe supported the already angry people.
If you bring an innocent person and put him in jail. Do you think he will be satisfied with that?
i agree with u regarding our foreign policy, and i do understand the sensitivity revolving around hamas being an islamic organization bec this country just like algeria had its fair share of islamic groups with weapons.
Agreed.
its not fake abed, they just mentioned it on al-jazeerah. the solider was shot and there are people injured on the palestinian side.
I said it was fake not to deny that a soldier was killed, but because definitely there was no shooting from the Palestinian side, and even if that happened, it was not planned as the Egyptian government claims just to increase its popularity among Egyptians, just like what they did against Algeria.

glad u got around to that.
i understand non of this sits well with people but we need to be realistic the entire arab region is behind isreal and we cant escape this sad but real fact. now as evident military action does not win u land with isreal, u need both military and politics to gain sth with isreal.
Agreed.
now the question should be say the palestinians agree to go to peace talks and hamas some how hold back launching rockets or doing any thing violent will the palestinains get back any of there rights?? i dont know may this has happened before but i dont know if it did.
i hope this answers yr questions jbf.
What rockets?
How many Israelis were injured or killed as a result of resistance in Gaza last year? Peace will not be achieved with Israel ever. They just don't want to give anything to Palestinians, and without forcing them to do so, they will keep their "nice" policies inside Palestine.
just so as to explain my opnion on all of this debate I have to say that: No I don't beleive that if Hamas stopped the rockets or did actually sit with the zionists on the peace table they or the Palestinian people as a whole will get anything and that is due to the fact that The Zionist occupation doesn't want peace in the first place.
Throughout history they(Zionists) have asked and asked for their so called "rights" while in reallity they're looking for excuses and this will continue for internity as far as Im concerned.
As for the Iran - Hamas theory of yours, I object

as I find it rather mischeif to think that Hamas the organization that's roots go back to 1948 with their principles written at that time, to say that their main principle of not negotiating with an occipation force is in fact an Iranian call.
I agree for both answers. If Hamas find anybody else that could assist it in resisting, it will certainly coordinate with it.