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Reader comment on item: Guest Column: The Importance of the Jordan Valley Corridor

Submitted by Rhonda, Feb 15, 2014 12:40

"Egypt, in spite of its peace agreement with Israel, turned a blind eye to the passage of terrorists and weapons streaming into the Gaza Strip to attack Israel. Currently the Egyptian government is trying to eradicate terrorism in the Sinai Peninsula, but its questionable success makes it imperative to ask about the ability of Jordan, a friendly country, to prevent terrorists and weapons from entering Judea and Samaria from the east." .......This statement is very naive, because this is exactly one of the reasons Morsi was overthrown, because of his cooperation with Hamas and agreement with Ayman Al-Zawahiri to establish training camps in Libya and North Sinai with revolving doors between them and Syria. Under the new interim government Israel and Egypt have the best cooperation in decades. and the "questionableness" of Egypt to succeed in North Sinai against Al Qaeda is dependent upon Israels exceptions to Camp David and allowing Egypt to have military operations in the Sinai, and the US to keep it's part of the Camp David agreement with providing military aid, which the US has denied Egypt since the overthrow of Morsi. Palestine will NEVER demilitarize. I just love these reports from academia that are out of touch with what is really happening on the ground.

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