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<blockquote data-quote="traveler" data-source="post: 303879" data-attributes="member: 1954">Here is an article that I found in the newspaper &quot;Egyptian Mail&quot; while in Cairo last week. An interesting way to control ones border with another country!CAIRO (AFP) - Egypt said on Thursday it would no longer tolerate Palestinians infiltrating the country from the Gaza Strip, and threatened to break the legs of anyone crossing the Rafah border illegally.&quot;Anyone who breaches the border will have their legs broken,&quot; Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit was quoted as saying by the official MENA news agency on public television overnight.Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians living in the impoverished Gaza Strip, subjected to a punishing Israeli blockade, crossed freely into Egypt after Islamist militants from Hamas blew apart border barriers late last month.Abul Gheit said Egypt had allowed the Palestinians to flood across the border for humanitarian reasons only.He blamed Israel for the situation in the Gaza Strip, accusing the Jewish state of imposing collective punishment on a territory that is home to 1.5 million Palestinians in response to rocket attacks by militants.Abul Gheit also reproached Hamas for firing rockets into Israel, describing the standoff as a &quot;laughable caricature.&quot;The minister said some rockets misfire and hit the Gaza Strip itself, wounding Palestinians and merely providing Israel with a pretext to attack.Egyptian and Hamas forces, which seized armed control of the Gaza Strip in mid-June, resealed the Rafah border last week.And we are giving illegals checks. What a terrible place America is for those illegal immigrants.<img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/FeltTip/sad-very.png"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":sad-very:" title="Sad Very&nbsp; &nbsp; :sad-very:" data-shortname=":sad-very:" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="traveler, post: 303879, member: 1954"] Here is an article that I found in the newspaper "Egyptian Mail" while in Cairo last week. An interesting way to control ones border with another country! CAIRO (AFP) - Egypt said on Thursday it would no longer tolerate Palestinians infiltrating the country from the Gaza Strip, and threatened to break the legs of anyone crossing the Rafah border illegally. "Anyone who breaches the border will have their legs broken," Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit was quoted as saying by the official MENA news agency on public television overnight. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians living in the impoverished Gaza Strip, subjected to a punishing Israeli blockade, crossed freely into Egypt after Islamist militants from Hamas blew apart border barriers late last month. Abul Gheit said Egypt had allowed the Palestinians to flood across the border for humanitarian reasons only. He blamed Israel for the situation in the Gaza Strip, accusing the Jewish state of imposing collective punishment on a territory that is home to 1.5 million Palestinians in response to rocket attacks by militants. Abul Gheit also reproached Hamas for firing rockets into Israel, describing the standoff as a "laughable caricature." The minister said some rockets misfire and hit the Gaza Strip itself, wounding Palestinians and merely providing Israel with a pretext to attack. Egyptian and Hamas forces, which seized armed control of the Gaza Strip in mid-June, resealed the Rafah border last week. [B]And we are giving illegals checks. What a terrible place America is for those illegal immigrants.[/B] :sad-very: [/QUOTE]

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