Middle East Focus: Egypt Gasses Gaza Tunnel, Civil War with Swine Winds Down, Oinks Stopped………….

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Egypt Gasses Gaza Tunnel, Civil War with Swine Winds Down, Oinks Stopped………….

“Egyptian forces pumped gas into a cross-border tunnel used to smuggle goods into the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, killing four Palestinians, Hamas officials said. Egypt has been under pressure to seal off the hundreds of tunnels that are a key economic lifeline for the blockaded Palestinian territory but which are also used to bring in weapons for the Islamic militant group. Israel and Egypt have kept Gaza's official border crossings closed since Hamas seized control of the coastal strip in 2007 from forces loyal to Western-backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who now only governs in the West Bank. A Hamas security official in charge of the tunnel area along the border said the Egyptians filled the passage with some type of crowd dispersal gas. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to give his name. "The Interior Ministry confirms that the citizens' cause of death was the Egyptian security forces spraying poison gasses into one of the tunnels," the statement said without elaborating.…………..”

The Egyptian regime must be quite frustrated. They can’t even control a few miles of a border strip. The trade is too profitable for many Egyptians not to cooperate, and most of them probably are politically against the blockade and the Mubarak Steel Wall.
The good news for the Egyptian security services: not an oink is being heard from Egypt’s once ubiquitous pigs these days. That means the armed forces have won a glorious victory in the war declared by the Egyptian government against the country’s ancient swine community: Egypt’s only military victory since the days of Mohammed Ali Pasha. But then civil wars do not count as real wars, do they?
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