From the AP:
Egypt will open its only crossing with the Gaza Strip this weekend, the Cairo military government announced Wednesday, significantly easing a four-year blockade on the Hamas-ruled territory but setting up a potential conflict with Israel.
Egypt’s official Middle East News Agency said the Rafah border crossing would be opened permanently starting Saturday from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. every day except Fridays and holidays…
What this means is easy access by Hamas to military hardware – they’ll be able to import the means to continue attacking Israel. This is a gigantic break with the peace treaty – a clear signal of hostility to Israel and friendship with terrorism.
The only way to solve this problem is for Israel to push the Egyptians back from the border…to reconquer part of the Sinai, in order to seal off the Gaza enclave entirely. That, to put it mildly, would be a highly risky operation. But if rockets continue to rain down on Israel from a Hamas easily supplied from Egypt, what will Israel do? Allow its people to be massacred? I don’t think so.
