{"id":1950,"date":"2006-11-16T12:39:41","date_gmt":"2006-11-16T10:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/16\/surprise-surprise-did-you-really-expect-egypt-to-look-after-israels-security-by-combating-arms-smuggling-into-gaza\/"},"modified":"2006-11-16T12:39:41","modified_gmt":"2006-11-16T10:39:41","slug":"surprise-surprise-did-you-really-expect-egypt-to-look-after-israels-security-by-combating-arms-smuggling-into-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/16\/surprise-surprise-did-you-really-expect-egypt-to-look-after-israels-security-by-combating-arms-smuggling-into-gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"Surprise, Surprise: Did You Really Expect Egypt to Look After Israel&#8217;s Security by Combating Arms Smuggling into Gaza?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/servlet\/Satellite?cid=1162378408759&#038;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull\"><strong>MKs Blame Kassam Attacks on Government and Egypt,  By Sheera Claire Frenkel<\/strong><\/a>   (Jerusalem Post)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Excerpts;<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Officials from across the political spectrum scrambled to cast blame Wednesday for the day-long Kassam attacks that pounded the south of Israel, killing one woman in Sderot.<\/p>\n<p>MK Shai Hermesh (Kadima) said in response to the rocket firing Wednesday morning that &#8220;the source of the terrorism is because the Egyptian army turns a blind eye as a constant supply of arms flows into the Strip under their nose.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) Chief Yuval Diskin told the Knesset&#8217;s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee that more than 33 tons of high-grade explosives material and a dozen rocket-launchers had been smuggled into the Gaza Strip since the disengagement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The quest after the Kassams is like the Dutch boy who plugged the hole with his finger,&#8221; added Hermesh. &#8220;We must demand international pressure on the Egyptian government for it to hold up its commitments to effective oversight of the border crossings from Sinai into the Strip.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Dan Naveh, urged the government to launch a strong military operation in the Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Every day that goes by without a wide operation creates the feeling that what applies to Tel Aviv does not apply to Sderot,&#8221; said Naveh. &#8220;The State of Israel will pay a heavier price in human lives if we don&#8217;t act immediately.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>MK Zvi Hendel (NU-NRP) added to Naveh&#8217;s statement, saying that Olmert would move to stop the Kassam attacks &#8220;only if a rocket fell on Tel Aviv.&#8221; <\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MKs Blame Kassam Attacks on Government and Egypt, By Sheera Claire Frenkel (Jerusalem Post) Excerpts; Officials from across the political spectrum scrambled to cast blame Wednesday for the day-long Kassam attacks that pounded the south of Israel, killing one woman in Sderot. MK Shai Hermesh (Kadima) said in response to the rocket firing Wednesday morning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}