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Titolo: Abbas urges Egypt to destroy underground tunnels

Un ulteriore bonus (per Israele) dello strano blitz contro le guardie di 
frontiera egiziane: approfondire le divisioni tra palestinesi.  Grazie 
ad Abbas, che si conferma il più prezioso "nemico" di Israele.
 
Ma, riguardo ai tunnel, una domanda sorge spontanea: perché non far 
transitare da Rafah tutte le merci che servono a Gaza senza restrizioni?
Non ci sarebbe bisogno né di tunnel clandestini né di organizzazioni di 
contrabbandieri, le merci sarebbero controllate e passerebbero meno armi.
 
Una domanda banale, che però nessun organo informativo propone al pubblico.
 
Il motivo delle restrizioni probabilmente andrebbe chiesto agli 
psicologi di massa israeliani, che si stanno esercitando, sulla pelle 
dei gazani, con le tecniche avanzate di condizionamento mentale.
 
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Abbas urges Egypt to destroy underground tunnels
By KHALED ABU TOAMEH
08/11/2012 19:17
 
For first time, Palestinian Authority publicly calls for destruction of 
underground tunnels, asking Egypt to destroy those along its border with 
Gaza to tighten blockade.
A Gaza smuggling tunnel. Photo: Ashley Bates
 
Buoyed by growing tensions between Hamas and Egypt in wake of last 
week's terror attack in Sinai, the Palestinian Authority Saturday called 
on the Egyptians to tighten the blockade on the Gaza Strip by destroying 
all underground tunnels along their shared border.
 
The PA said that the tunnels do not contribute to the economy in the 
Gaza Strip and are being used only by a small number of people for 
personal gain.
 
This was the first time that the PA had ever called publicly for the 
destruction of the underground tunnels along the border between the Gaza 
Strip and Egypt.
 
The appeal came as PA officials continued to insist that some of the 
terrorists who killed 16 Egyptian border guards had come from the Gaza 
Strip.
 
The officials are hoping that tough Egyptian security measures in Sinai, 
including the destruction of the tunnels, would undermine Hamas's rule 
in the Gaza Strip and possibly bring about its collapse.
 
In the past few days, senior officials in Ramallah have been working 
hard to convince the Egyptians that Hamas and other radical groups in 
the Gaza Strip were linked, in one way or another, to the terror attack.
 
The PA has also provided the Egyptian authorities with the names of 
several suspects from the Gaza Strip, a PA security source in Ramallah 
disclosed.
 
"We have good security ties with the Egyptians and we are trying to help 
them capture the terrorists," the source explained. "We have good reason 
to believe that terror groups from the Gaza Strip were involved in the 
attack. These groups operate under the looking eye of the Hamas 
government and sometimes even receive support from it."
 
The Sinai terror attack came at a time when PA leaders in the West Bank 
were beginning to express concern over improved relations between Cairo 
and Hamas in light of the election of Muslim Brotherhood candidate 
Mohamed Morsy as president.
 
Many Egyptians have held Hamas responsible for the terror attack, 
claiming that the terrorists had entered Sinai though underground 
tunnels that are under the strict supervision of the Hamas government.
 
Some Egyptians have urged their government to retaliate by destroying 
the tunnels and permanently closing the Rafah border crossing.
 
"The Palestinian presidency renews its rejection and condemnation of the 
criminal act carried out by murderous fundamentalists in Sinai last week 
and affirms its full solidarity with Egypt," said Tayeb Abdel Raheem, a 
top aide to PA President Mahmoud Abbas.
 
"We also fully support all measures carried out by the Egyptian 
leadership and security forces against the radical and suspicious terror 
groups, including needed measures to close the smuggling tunnels that 
harm the interests and relations of Palestinian and Egyptians."
 
Abdel Raheem said that the underground tunnels have for some time been 
posing a threat to Egypt's national security and the unity of the 
Palestinians.
 
Dismissing claims that the tunnels are being used to prevent a 
humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip, Abdel Raheem said that the 
tunnels serve only a small group of people – a reference to Hamas leaders.
 
"The tunnels have nothing to do with economic prosperity in the Gaza 
Strip," he stressed. "The Palestinian Authority allocates more than half 
its budget for the Gaza Strip."
 
In response, Hamas strongly condemned the PA leadership for calling for 
the destruction of the tunnels and accused Abbas of 'cheap opportunism."
 
Salah Bardaweel, a Hamas official in the Gaza Strip, denounced the call 
as "immoral and irresponsible."
 
http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?ID=280871&R=R1
 
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 transitare da Rafah tutte le merci che servono a Gaza senza restrizioni?
 
lo fanno gia`, per questo ritengono quella delle merci semplicemente una scusa:
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