Was Hamas -- or a Hamas/Fatah team -- behind a suicide car bombing that killed over 30 Egyptian soldiers at a Sinai checkpoint? Egypt reportedly plans to clear peaceful civilians out of Sinai and to pursue the terrorists with Apache attack helicopters, in order to secure a buffer zone between the Gaza strip and Sinai. Did peace-wary Palestinians attack Egypt just before cease-fire talks were to resume between the Hamas/Fatah coalition and Israel? Or was Egypt, as Hamas officials charged, too quick to blame the Hamas regime in Gaza, which insists that it has eliminated smuggling tunnels at the Egyptian border and severed ties with the Muslim Brotherhood, outlawed in Egypt? The Egyptian leadership has made it clear that it will no longer tolerate destabilization caused by Hamas. Indeed, back in 2001 MEMRI reported that tunnels for arms smuggling and terrorist infiltration, from Egypt to Gaza, were already a big problem, and that Egypt was losing tourism because of Palestinian...(Read Full Article)