Egypt building iron wall on Gaza border to stop smuggling

egypt is just trying to please the u.s like saudi arabia its all about the money

outrage from the world; Oh yes, that is only reserved for Israel

you took the word right out of my mouth. LOVE your comments, you're so damn right.

egypt is a traitor for not helping its arab brothers and just want to please america they need to help gaza no weapons just help

It is a shame, but it is true.

To distinguish it from the Wall already Israel built ?! With so many walls, will there be a room left for a 2-state.

Uh, "Tony Silver", you seem to have an odd compulsion to repeat tall tales told by Palestinains. Have you ever seen a photo of a "starving Gazan", a child with the bloated belly of kwashikor? Ever read the Palestine Times with the photos of the well stocked markets and the over weight women shoping for the holidays? Do you have any ideahow many truckloads of supplies Israel sends in to Gaza? "Starving Gazans"thats a myth too!

http://www.thedailynewsegypt.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=26352

much more than what Israel allows into the Strip through the official border crossing." Mmmm. "Israel allows" How can this be if Israel does not occupy? "..not only munitions but food, cars, motorcycles, drugs, medicine and fuel, .." '...food...medicine and fuel' Not allowed by ISRAEL! Pooooof go certain posters assertions

If Mubarak has the money to build this iron wall, he should first spend the money on supplying his Taba crossing personnel with the basic facilities and equipment. If you cross from Israel to Sinai through Taba, you'll be met with poor Egyptian soldiers who appear mal-nutritioned and sleep deprived. Their offices are shamefully lacking in furniture, and basic office supplies. They manually fill-out lengthy forms using pens that they borrow from the tourists then they beg to keep them! Their insurance agent sleeps on a metal bed in a small room that lacks even a desk! You have to wake him up so that he can sell you the mandatory car insurance. What's worse is that you must bribe soldiers right and left if you want your passage to be smooth. You can "buy" the highest ranking officer with less than $10! I feel sorry for these people because they get the crumbs while Mubarak lives like kings!

tunnels in gaza soil would have to beconstructed of steel or concrete to carry the weight of soil above and the shoring being done continuously as the tunnel is dug !

Shame on Eyptian officials they will find themselves being targeted too with boycotts & isolated for pushing a people more into under- ground smuggling...Dutch

then there will be no need for turnels!

Does this justify the starvation of innocent children and women in Gaza by israeli and Egyptian blockade?

egypt can should it want to service and supply gaza at will.curious that.we are always being told that gaza is under siege surrounded occupied.

...even then, the arabs will line the tunnel walls with waterproof materials. The Israelis need to use seismic (sound) mapping such as used in the mining industry. Also, deeply buried (30 meters down) explosive charges (2000KG) every 500 meters will collapse the tunnels.

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Yes, this wall is inhuman, and yes, there is not enough protest about what the Egyptians (under Israeli orders, transmitted through the US) do to the Gazans. But there is one small difference between this wall and the one that Israel is building: this one is on Egyptian territory. Small but significant.

Egypt has no credibility with many because they are paid to tow the Israeli/US line. They do what they're told and get well paid for it. I agree with you that Israel has been discriminated against, but favourably because of Holocaust guilt. They have been protected despite breaking every International Law and Human rights laws and rewarded with "special trading agreements", blind eyes being turned, etc. As to Ireland, educate yourself. At the moment the minority in the North want to be reunited with the rest of the country. The majority don't. That will change in time to come and will be settled with a vote, not the gun, intimidation, apartheid walls or racist laws as in Israel. Everyone in Ireland,except criminals,has freedom. It's called living in a democracy.

this seems to be another action for politics with no real implication accept appeasement to terror. What are they going to stop when the tunnels used to smuggle arms are much deeper then this wall.

I hope Egypt chokes on its walls. GAzans are strangled and now egypt wants to tighten the noose around their necks.

EGYPT IRON WALL ! WHAT ? An Iron Wall,& no shouting,screaming,screeching,shrieking barking & yelling ! Nothing ? Nothing ? Wow ! The usual Israeli bashers must be burying their heads,covering their eyes,& blocking their ears. What a motely lot ! Ah ! We forget.They are brothers ! And after they die,they'll all go to the miserable 72 Virgins ! Even in death these beoble have no mercy !

Nice try, but the folks in Gaza are not going to starve simply because Egypt is trying as hard as it can to hew to it's Peace Treaty with Israel. We have a similar problem here in Texas, and neither the US or Mexico can stop the drugs from moving north and the guns from going south.

I totally agreed with Egyptians but now I want to see if now the world public opinion start screaming scandal as they did when Israel built it fences. As we well know Israel is always discriminated among the other nation. English occupation of Ireland is not considered a crime no one go in the street to claim liberty for Irish people.

israel was goldstoned, but i seriously doubt that it would have any effect on israel's fighting in the future. what i am praying and hoping for is that there will be no need for another operation in gaza. the home command is preparing for one, hence i am not too optimistic. best regards, cipora

the issue for israel and egypt is not the consumer goods. the issue for both, and including the u.s., is the iranian and syrian weapons being smuggled into gaza. the issue is the fajr missiles with their 40-70 klm's range, the rpg's, the grad missiles, the mortar shells. if hamas were to lay down its arms, there could be a negotiated opening of borders under proper supervision. however, neither israel, nor egypt, nor the u.s., can accept an iranian sponsored terror entity in gaza.

This is a rather new development as quoted; Recently, Egypt examined several possibilities of blocking the tunnels, and joint American-Egyptian patrols have been seen in Rafah attempting to detect tunnels using underground sensors" Unquote. Deeply embedded steel walls, at 30 meters plus deep, that cannot be melted with normal oxy acetelane, probably something that the US will provide no doubt. Probably we will see the same on the Mex/US border soon enough. What does bother me, is the gassing of said tunnels. What type of gas is used.? How many human beings have died.? Where is the outcry from the UN.? Since how long has this being going on.? So many questions. So many countries are fighting terrorism, whether blasting them and their familes with Predators or artillary. Egypt, Afghanistan and Pakistan seem to have no problem in using the above methods. However, Israel is under scrutiny over road blocks and border closures. Good day from sunny, snowy Swiss Alps.

you can never stop the black market.

But everything to do with keeping Hamas operatives out of Egypt. Their religious extremism is a serious threat to Egypt.

Why American don't mount pressure on Israel to lift the siege on Gaza? This would resolve all these problems.Simple!

Walls protect people. Do you live in a house without walls. Hamas does the walling. Look at Hongkong -- maybe Hamas can learn something there. Ammunition and killing will lead them nowhere!

Now people can stop moaning about how Israel is denying the "'Palestinians' freedom." Oh wait, no they won't.

If this was done before Cast Lead, Hamas would be finished by now. But all through 2009, the amount of weapons, and the range of missiles is enormous, and Israel was goldstoned in order not to be able to further protect its citizens with a preemptive sweep of this arsenal in Gaza.

The biggest and most blatant double-standard will ensure that no one will say anything about this wall. Actually this double standard is a huge compliment from the world to Israel because it implies that the world knows that Israel is orders of magnitude more advanced than any Arab country ever will be, and therefore is held to higher standards.

seek ye first the Kingdome of GOD

Hamas has also been ensuring no children are employed in the tunnels, and is taxing all smuggled goods.

there was a time when walls were coming down but now theyre going back up again.Lift the blockade and assist the people of Gaza economically and they wont need tunnels to smuggle things.They dont look at the root of the problem.

Along with the cries to end the Egyptian practrice of shooting Sudan refugees as they are about to cross over into Israel after a thousand mile walk? Where? Where are the indignant caterwallers pleading for the wordl to condemn Egypt for how they wall in Gazans? These are their brethen,so where is the protest march every Friday? Where is Amnesty Internation and HRW when over a 1,000 Darfur refugees have been picked off on the fence as they are LEAVING Egyptand almost to the safety of Israel,anation that has taken in 10,000 refugees fromthe genocide? Where is the Amira Hass article,the Gideon Levy article condemning this?

... go 35 meters deep, then. Although I know of few reasonably priced materials that cannot be melted with an acetylene flame. Seems a narrow moat open to the Med would be more cost effective. But it all brings up the question: Why are the Egyptians being so nasty to their brothers? Gaza has been a good market, and they don't fire missiles to the southwest.

Evil for building a protection barrier since the Arabs are now doing it themselves.

What is this new type of steel the Egyptians have invented? Impossible to cut or melt, I don't think so. Give me an an oxy set and I'll be through in 10 minutes.

britain, israel and US. and as long as this is not in the "only lies printed" main news, that long there is a satanic conspiracy. and that long the day will cometh...

strike when the day cometh. so simple.

like that, and build walls around it.

gaza smugglers. why does whole world always miss the topic.