Just goes to show you who writes the New York Times, readers.
See: Israel Writes The New York Times News Pages
"Israel’s Experimental Pressure Backfires" by STEVEN ERLANGER
JERUSALEM — When Hamas blew large holes in Gaza’s border with Egypt, allowing thousands of Palestinians a chance to stock up on medicines, food and consumer goods, it also blew a large hole in the Israeli policy, backed by Washington, of squeezing the population of Gaza in the hope that they would turn actively against Hamas.
That's COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT and a WAR CRIME!!!!!
And notice the NYT saying it is an Israeli policy backed by Washington?
Makes me believe Washington is TOLD what the policy will be, readers, if the NYT reports it that way!
As Israeli leaders pushed Egypt to close the border and fumbled for an effective response, the apparent Hamas success put Egypt into a bind and further undermined the chances that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel and President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Fatah faction could succeed in negotiating a peace treaty — let alone by the time President Bush leaves office.
Early efforts by Egypt on Friday to reseal the border failed when Hamas broke through more areas of the border wall with bulldozers, and Palestinians continued to move easily into Egypt on Saturday, sometimes with cars and trucks.
The confrontational tactics of Hamas, the Palestinian branch of Egypt’s opposition and banned Muslim Brotherhood, also presented a difficult quandary for President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt. The plight of the Palestinians, especially those in Gaza, is a deeply emotional issue for Egyptians and other Arabs, an issue often promoted and sometimes manipulated by Arab leaders and Arabic satellite channels like Al Jazeera.
But Egypt is also committed to a peace treaty and security cooperation with Israel, whose goal of blocking the success of the radical Islamic Hamas in Gaza is quietly shared by Mr. Mubarak. Egypt receives over $2 billion a year in aid from Washington, which is also committed to stopping the rise of Hamas, largely because the group refuses to recognize Israel’s right to exist and opposes American-sponsored peace talks with Israel.
Subtle bias, but it's there!
Hamas, by creating a border crisis after Israel extended its import restrictions to Gaza in another failed effort to stop rocket and mortar fire into Israel, managed to divert criticism of its management of Gaza.
As important, Hamas earned a degree of respect for action even from its opponents in Gaza, further consolidating its control. Now Hamas is trying to force Cairo to acknowledge that control and to deal directly with Hamas to solve the border crisis.
Abdel Moneim Said, director of the Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies in Cairo, blamed Hamas for recklessness. “Hamas wanted to pull Egypt in through many things: the tunnels, pushing people to Egypt, and now they are trying to blame Arabs for not rescuing the people in Gaza,” he said. “Hamas is managing the crisis by distributing the blame, although it is the one responsible, or partially responsible at least, for what is happening.”
Yeah, but Iz-ray-HELL is NEVER to blame!
Well, FUCK THAT!
No matter how hard you try, shitstink Zionists, you can never put that genie back in my bottle.
But it will be very difficult now for Mr. Mubarak to reseal the border completely. More likely, he will work something out with Mr. Abbas and Israel to allow a regulated border crossing. But even that will resound as a Hamas victory, because both Egypt and Israel will have been forced to a concession that they could have negotiated freely with Mr. Abbas any time in the last six months.
Mr. Abbas will meet with Mr. Olmert on Sunday, with the news, as usual — this time, the border crisis — overshadowing their efforts to push along peace talks. In a speech on Saturday in Ramallah, Mr. Abbas made it clear that he would press for his plan for the Palestinian Authority and his own presidential guard to once again take over the Gazan side of the crossings from Israel into Gaza, and from Gaza into Egypt, despite the Hamas takeover of Gaza last June.
Mr. Abbas repeated that he would not talk directly with Hamas until it apologized for its “coup” in Gaza and handed over power there to the Palestinian Authority. In saying that, he essentially rejected an Egyptian invitation for talks with Hamas in Cairo that the exiled Hamas political leader, Khaled Meshal, had accepted on Friday.
Yeah, because Abass is a ZIONIST TOOL!!!!
Israel has previously rejected Mr. Abbas’s proposal because it would reopen the crossings and take pressure off Hamas, as well as putting the crossings effectively under the control of Hamas.
But Israel’s recent effort to further intensify the closing of Gaza, by cutting off nearly all supplies and forcing the extension of rolling power cuts to more than 12 hours a day, clearly backfired, giving Hamas a kind of moral pretext in the Arab and Palestinian world to break through the Egyptian border. As the daily newspaper Haaretz said in an editorial on Friday, “The siege of Gaza has failed.”
What the New York Times here called an "experiment!"
And I suppose Hitler was only "experimenting" on all those Jews the MSM and the NYT never tire of reminding us about, huh, readers?
Pffffffffftttttt!!!!!
Defense Minister Ehud Barak of Israel, with no adequate answer to stopping rocket and mortar fire from Gaza and reluctant to have a major military incursion that wouldn’t stop them either, intensified the closing in what his aides called “an experiment.”
Too bad it was not the Zionists on the end of that "experiment."
Ah, well, maybe SOMEDAY it WILL BE!!!!
We can always hope!!!!!!!!!
“The experiment blew up in their faces,” said Shlomo Avineri, a political scientist at Hebrew University. “The whole theory of putting pressure on a population to put pressure on their government doesn’t work. It didn’t work in Lebanon in 2006, and it didn’t work now.”
Not only that, they are WAR CRIMES of COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT!!!!!
The policy was denounced by the European Union and the United Nations as “collective punishment” and as illegal under international law.
And yet NOTHING IS DONE!
Imagine if it were an Arab regime responsible for doing this to Jews.
We would have invaded the place years ago!
“Whether it’s against international law or not, the fact is that the policy was ineffective,” Mr. Avineri said. “Barak made a mistake in thinking it would turn the population against Hamas; it did the reverse.”
Yeah, never mind whether the stinkfuck Israelis are guilty of WAR CRIMES -- the Ziuonist policy failed!
That's the IMPORTANT thing, according to AmeriKa's shitty Zionist press!
Israel’s larger error, after pulling out of Gaza in 2005, was to view it almost entirely as a security problem, with a main focus on smuggling of weapons and rockets from Egypt into Gaza. “The whole relationship with Egypt became subsumed under questions about smuggling,” Mr. Avineri said. But the relationship of Gaza to Egypt has major strategic and political implications, he said. “Why should the border be sealed between two Arab populations?” he asked. “Israel should support some regulated border regime.”
Take a good look at some of the victims of Israel's barbarity, readers.
Are the women and children not beautiful?
"Egypt Warns Hamas About Border Violence" by STEVEN ERLANGER
JERUSALEM — Egyptian riot police used armored vehicles to try to restrict Gazans from taking cars into Egypt on Saturday, and the Egyptian foreign minister warned of “provocations” at the border. He said that at least 36 Egyptian security officers had been hospitalized, some in critical condition, after confrontations with Palestinians.
Egypt: Zionism's collaborators.
In a thinly veiled rebuke to the militant group Hamas, which runs Gaza, the Egyptian minister, Ahmed Aboul Gheit, said in Cairo that Egypt would show restraint but not at the cost of Egyptian lives.
“The Egyptian decision has been to allow in the sons of Gaza to ease their suffering,” he said. “This was the Egyptian decision taken a few days ago and we are still holding to it.”
He added that the Egyptians wanted to regulate the entry and exit of Gazans and talk with the “concerned parties” to devise a new border system. But it was unlikely that Egypt would tolerate a continued confrontation with Hamas.
After Israel severely tightened its import restrictions on Gaza, to try to force a reduction of rockets and mortar shells fired into Israel, Hamas breached the border with Egypt in nearly 20 places early Wednesday morning.
Hamas explosives blew down large sections of the wall that Israel had built just inside Gaza to protect its forces, which used to patrol along the Egyptian border in what was otherwise a no-man’s land. The border itself is marked by a low concrete wall topped with barbed wire, which is easily breached.
Traffic over the border remained heavy on Saturday, but residents of the Egyptian towns Rafah and El Arish reported severe shortages of supplies and a growing fatigue with the Palestinian influx.
In El Arish, Said Aghlaby, 48, a taxi driver, said: “It’s getting tiring. We can’t take all these people. They’re sleeping in the streets.”
He said he had to wait in line seven hours for gasoline, and could not get a full tank. “I’ve never seen so much garbage,” he said, “and I’m used to seeing garbage: I’ve lived in Cairo.”
Mr. Aghlaby said he was happy to help the Palestinians.
“They’ve been through a lot of suffering, and we can’t refuse to help them,” he said. “But it can’t go on forever.”
In Rafah, a cafe was down to its last 12 bottles of water, which were priced at the equivalent of 90 cents, instead of the normal 27 cents.
But in Gaza, Egyptian cars and trucks were also seen, delivering supplies to stores and supermarkets as well as sightseeing.
In an interview published on Saturday, President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, decrying the use of violence and the factional struggle among Palestinians between Fatah and Hamas, invited both groups to Cairo for talks.
Hamas accepted; the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, repeated his stance that he would not meet with Hamas until it apologized for its “coup” in Gaza and handed power back to the Palestinian Authority.
Yeah, the "coup" even though HAMAS WON the ELECTIONS!
See how these Zionist assholes that run AmeriKa's MSM papers reprint lies, readers?
An Abbas aide, Nabil Shaath, said that Mr. Abbas would travel to Egypt after meeting the Israeli prime minister, Ehud Olmert, here on Sunday.
Time for Abass to do another Louisiana lip-lock on Olmert?
Mr. Abbas will once again push Mr. Olmert to accept his presidential guards’ taking control of the Gazan side of the crossings from Israel and of the border with Egypt, despite Hamas’s control over Gaza.
Israeli troops remained on high alert along its border with Egypt, watching for militants from Gaza trying enter Israel through the Sinai desert."
