Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: "Il popolo ha fatto cio' che nessuno dei potenti voleva"

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7204238.stm
The BBC's Ian Pannell witnessed dramatic scenes on the border between
the Gaza Strip and Egypt, after Palestinians forced the barriers down.
I'm standing on the 10m- (30ft) high corrugated metal wall that was
physically knocked down this morning.
My left-hand side is in Egypt, my right-hand side is in the Gaza
Strip.
There is a man walking over flattened corrugated metal, pulling a goat
into Gaza.
We have seen people crowding around petrol stations, desperately
filling up on fuel.
We have seen families with luggage, cases held up high, as people are
pouring in both directions across this border, but primarily from Gaza
into Egypt.
This has been an opportunity for people to catch up with family and
friends, but also to catch up on shopping.
Nobody is attempting to stop this
Essentially what has happened here is that the people of Gaza have
forced on Egypt and Israel and the international community what
everyone else refused to allow to happen - which was for the border
crossing to be opened.
They have done it themselves.
This huge metal barrier is falling down in all directions - to my left
and to my right - and people are streaming through in their thousands.
Human surge
Nobody is attempting to stop this. As we walked up to the border area,
the final half-kilometre, there was one paltry line of Egyptian riot
police.
Gazans stream over border from Gaza to Egypt 23/01/08
There seems little prospect of turning back the tide
But they are hugely outnumbered here, it's physically impossible to
restrain the surge of people coming over primarily from Gaza.
We saw a number of riot trucks parked up. We know that the Egyptians
have increased their security in the area, but short of physically
using live rounds there is nothing that would stop this crowd.
On the other side we have seen men with bulldozers trying to clear the
path to allow people over from Gaza into Egypt.
I think at the moment it is not possible for Hamas nor for the
Egyptian authorities to do anything about this.
We have asked a number of people who was responsible for this, who did
it.
People have credited Hamas - of course in their eyes it would be
credit - but there is no way of verifying whether it was Hamas which
was responsible.
Egypt's quandary
I have to say the local economy here in Egypt is doing very well
today.
The first thing you see as you cross over from Gaza into Egypt is a
line of men exchanging money.
Then the goods and the services become available to people.
In front of me there are people literally carrying lambs and sheep
across the border.
As far as the Egyptians are concerned, they will certainly hope that
many of these people will go back to the other side, but I think
history would caution against too much optimism.
When this has happened in the past - and this is not unprecedented -
many people have chosen to stay on the Egyptian side of the border.
The Egyptians are constrained by the peace agreement with Israel from
deploying a significant number of security personnel in this area,
which means they are also constrained in their ability to try to
contain this kind of incident.

 crossing to be opened.
invece penso proprio che a Israele la fuga dei palestinesi in Egitto
non dispiaccia affatto, e forse è esattamente quello che
volevano...hai presente la manfrina "perchè non se il tengono i loro
amici arabi?"

 Egyptian authorities to do anything about this.
Hamas?  Hamas e' quello che ha fatto saltare il muro di confine :) 
Figuriamoci se fa qualcosa quando puo' far passare i suoi terroristi in
Egitto a prendere armi ed esplosivi o tentare di farli uscire da Gaza
prima che ci lascino le penne.
-Stefano

hai presente la manfrina "perchè non se il tengono i loro amici arabi?"
Settembre Nero non ti ha insegnato nulla, vero?
Bah....
-Stefano