Egypt's Gaza Wall Intentionally Sabotaged

Why doesn't The Laughing Cow build a wall pleasing to the eyes?

egyptian wall painting 6 X1BAZ 19672

The author has previously and extensively written about Egypt's attempts to build a subterranean wall against the Palestinians in Gaza on behalf of Israel and the United States.

Israel's response to a Palestinian free election (which was the advocacy product of America and Bush's declared "Freedom Agenda" in the Middle East) was to blockade Gaza because the Palestinians voted for Hamas, which Israel considers a terrorist organization and refuses to recognize the Jewish state. The United States naturally backed Israel's effort to collectively punish the Palestinians. Incidentally, in Bush's new memoirs he writes that he understood Hamas' victory as not a sign of Palestinian opposition against peace with Israel or support for terrorism, but, rather, that Hamas won because it campaigned on a platform of clean and efficient government and was aided in its campaign by the notorious corrupt image of its rival Fatah and the poor grass-roots operations of the then dominant Fatah faction. Why Bush did not say this at the time and argue for engaging Hamas and getting them to moderate their views and be a practical player instead of immediately signing off on shunning it, engineering a coup against Hamas by Fatah (an anonymous American official, most likely assistant secretary of state for the Near East David Welsh, said at the time not once but twice "I like this violence" in reference to Palestinians in-fighting) which backfired after not only did Fatah fail to overwhelm Hamas but was actually expelled from Gaza; and, lastly, supporting a cruel and internationally illegal plan of collective punishment (or a "diet" for the Palestinians as one Israeli official put it) in the hopes that by denying 1.5million people basic needs and locking them in an open-air prison the Palestinians will blame Hamas for their plight and overthrow Hamas or, at least, force it to declare recognition of Israel.

Anyway, that's the back story. Egypt has been forced into this conflict by Israel and the U.S. (which, as usual, seconds anything Israeli) because it also shares a border with the Israeli-occupied Gaza Strip. And no blockade can be half-enforced. So the Israelis need the Egyptians to blockade goods from entering from their Rafah crossing in the Sinai along with the "unmentionables". Egypt initially did, at best, an unenthusiastic job at this since even the corrupt client of America was disinclined to be seen as working as Israel's proxy against the oppressed Palestinians and especially in such a wanton manner.

But eventually the U.S. Congress cut Egypt's annual $2billion in military aid by $300million as a warning that Egypt better adhere to Zionist dictates. Ponder the thought: the United States actually will cut proposed military aid [sic] to a Middle Eastern nation if it refuses U.S. demands. Does this apply only to Egypt? Need we ask?

In addition to concern over lost military spending, the Egyptian regime in the last few years has settled around the decision for a nepotist succession whereby the ailing dictator Hosni Mubarak will crown his son Gamal as his gifted successor. Needing American (at a minimum) acquiescence to such a decision, the regime in Cairo has decided to now forcefully become an active partner in the crime against the Palestinians in the name of Gamal Mubarak's ambitions (and military aid too, tyrants never discount their patronage).

By way of that, the regime is seeking to build a wall. The Rafah crossing has already been mostly closed for trucks and other convoys. Along with denying leave for Palestinians in dire need of medical assistance, many of whom die in want. But the Palestinians have built literally thousands of underground tunnels to circumvent the ground crossing and import foods and other supplies from willing Egyptian merchants on the other side. This is a lucrative business in Gaza. Imagine that! And naturally offended the Israelis.

Ergo the subterranean wall which is meant to block underground tunnels. This has failed as well. Palestinians have been able to use blow torches to break the wall to the great humiliation of Egypt's regime and their further frustration. But, in addition, it appears that the Palestinians have had allies amongst the Egyptian people who were working to actually build the wall. From a released Wikileaks U.S. diplomatic cable:

Recent damage to some of the

equipment related to the tunnel detection system appears to

have been intentionally inflicted, although it is unclear by

whom.

Of course nearly all Egyptians support the Palestinians. And are ashamed of their client government's policies. God bless the Egyptian subversives in the name of Palestine!!!