it allows for 1,400,000 Gazans.

to transgress Gaza's border today- without inspection- to murder 6 Palestinian? Is it prohibited for Palestinian piligrims to be back-home for family reunion after days of piligrim?

just come and see...How many women drive the cars ONLY in Cairo..the number is beyond the israeli society as whole...whether israeli women or men...and How many women in parliament...and human right organizations...and ministeries in the government...and How many women in the political parties....your sound looks who insisting that Livni is right.....and you don't want even to confess she is wrong...and didn't respect the minimal rules of dipomacy....go think before you write....I am not robot I am human!!!

Your right about open borders. Your Pali friends think its an open border and launch rockets and mortars into towns and cities. Israel should reciprocate. No more surgical strikes to kill terrorist leaders (oops I meant peace-loving Palis who vow to kill all the Jews and their descendeants that Hitler missed), while avoiding non-combatants. Let the Palis feel the consequence of "open Borders" with rockets into their towns. #29 - yourse right; Israel shouldn't be a special case. It should act just like all its blood-thirsty neighbours!

No thanks, we don't want anything to do with Gaza. Arab women are general term every country in the region has it own culture. Egyptian Women have voting right since 1920 and this is not an issue here. Ibrahim don’t use the term Jews Say the right word Israelis. Keep religion out of the discussion.

After the "pilgrims" burnt down the gracious accommodations of the Egyptians, I suppose Egypt had enough of these ungrateful brothers of theirs and disposed of them through the gates. Egypt would rather loose face then put up with these thugs for another second.

Only in Egypt is female circumcision still practiced despite it being illegal. From wikipedia: Freedom House places Egypt's political rights at 6, civil liberties at 5, and an average of 5.5. This is an improvement, but it places them at unfree. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Egypt

Israel is not concerned with pilgrims. Israel is concerned with Hamas members POSING AS PILGRIMS. Just like all American travellers have to endure security checks at airports because of the 9/11 Jihad terrorists, so should you expect the same. Why do you feel you are so special as to be exempt from inspections that are there to combat graft and terrorism? Nobody prohibits you from having a family reunion after visiting Mecca. If you don't want the hassle of security inspections, then tell your Hamas "representatives" to QUIT FIRING ROCKETS AT OTHER COUNTRIES so there will no longer be a need for security inspections.

Ibrahim, it seems to me that this is how your twisted little brain deduces the situation: Videotaped evidence of Egyptian complicity in weapons smuggling across its sovereign border is somehow a breach of "diplomacy," but allowing non-Egyptians to cross its sovereign border without mutually agreed-upon security inspections is an acceptable form of "diplomacy." Here's the true intent of the Egyptian interpretation of "diplomacy:" 1. Hey Israel(that means you, Livni!)! How dare you show incriminating videotaped evidence to a third party that makes us look bad! If you were good diplomats, you would have let us see it first so we could edit, photoshop, and distort it properly! The Egyptian government is now in a bitch-slapping dance with Israel and has resorted to downright "cattiness." Videotaped evidence of Egypt's turning a blind eye to weapons smuggling will prove that Egypt's idea of "diplomacy" is TOTALLY PHONY.

There is absolutely no 'blurring' of the term terrorist except among those who are willfully blind and your 'palestinians' qualify as terrorists, without a doubt.

take back gaza, push the squatters there into the Sinai where Egypt can control them again and place them into another camp as they have the other thousands of arabs in camps there. Enough bowing down to and attempting to appease the arab world. they don't stay appeased long and you only get burned in the end. Enough of this bullshit. do what you need to do for survival. The fact is that Egypt still despises Israel and the Jews for the stunning and utterly embarrassing (in the arab world's eyes, both on national and individual levels) and they would love nothing more than to see the demise of Israel and the Jews. Don't fool yourselves otherwise.

what's up with your racist and bigoted series about the Jews? Why do you hate Jews so much? Where did you learn to hate and what keeps it going? Will you ever live in peace if you can't rule the world? I don't get it. Why are arabs so difficult to please? Please explain. Thanks.. Oh, and try not to say...it's the Jews, so difficult to please...or the US..and blah blah blah....we've heard enough of that BS for decades. But seriously, what the hell is the problem with the arab world? Do you agree with imprisoning that English teacher for helping kids in Sudan and letting them name a teddy bear Mohammed? And do you agree with cartoons in arab squatting gaza to show cartoon characters teaching kids to hate? Do you agree with institutionalized child abuse which is what that amounts to? do you believe in subjugation of women in moslem ruled countries? Do you believe that the Jews should be allowed to have their own country, the land of Israel, which was ruled by the Jews some 2000 years ago after we left the shackles in Egypt? Do you believe anybody but moslems are allowed to decide their own destinies? Do you believe the garbage that your president fed you during the '67 war..that Egyptian planes were winning when in fact they had been destroyed? Do you believe in your own fantasies? I want real answer not the garbage that's spewed here. I want the air to be cleared so that we can know that if you believe in moslem domination in the world, then we can move on from there. But I don't want there to be any confusion anymore. Thanks!

We are fortunate enough to have Ibrahim and Khalid willing to speak with us. Someone complained about spelling errors. Why not shush..and listen. Let the politicians have the battle of words.I for one, would like to hear from the "other" side. Arabs and Jews have been at odds for thousands of years. Contrary to the dreams of Booosh and Condi, it may be several more lifetimes before there is any real peace between our Semitic cousins.So, please Ibrahim and Khalid, post your views.Try to be honest with us.Tell us how our points of view differ and where they mesh.

All that the Israelis know how to do is lie and lie and lie. One minute they are going to remove settlements the next minute they are not going to remove any roadblocks. Two can play at that game Israel. Well played Mubarak.

Those old people one week waiting on the border , was not enough that the IDF killed a woman from them with no reason , stop that BS with Egypt ... if Egypt will decide to cut diplomatic relation with Israel you will be isolated in the region and in most of Africa ... and then you go any cry again to your mami America which is too busy with it's problems in the area and doesn't need another one .... now it's up to you .

Seams that last time you visited Egypt (if you did) was it at least 100 years ago ... are you that old .... educate your self right before you write or it's enough for you to read Donald Duck magazins ....lol

Female circumcision is a practice from the ancient Egypt time and has nothing to do with Islam. Some small number of Egyptian still practices this. And it still has nothing to do with the subject. The Egyptian government will not help Hamas for nothing especially the mother group is the Muslim brotherhood in Egypt and only idiots can think so. No body speaking about war except our peaceful eastern neighbors. In 7000 Years we never saw something good from your side to love you for. Egypt has closed for ever the possibility of war with Israel. Sadat tried to avoid 1973 war by offering you peace treaty and you reject it. The problem is between you and the Palestinians. Stop dragging us to your mess. After all Israel founded hamas to fight Yasser Arafat group.

Israel wants an explanation! Everybody knows the answer. Egypt and Mubarak are enemies of Israel. they will do anything to harm Israel short of losing American aid.

All the Palestinians are potential 'terrorists'!!!!

mutilation.....moslem? did you read that right? WHT ARE ALL THE COUNTRIES THAT PRACTICE "FEMAL GENITAL MUTILATION" MOSLEM? if it has nothing to do with islam? It is a way of controlling your women folk by making sex very painful, instead of pleasureable.....you can assure that they wont seek sex from others because of your own failures to provide their satisfaction..... It is one more sad way for dominating them.....who cares if they die? bleed? feel extreme pain? not the men folk......they can go to their wives and do whatever, whenever.... btw....it is NOT an ancient egyptian practice....the custome did not exist in egypt before its introduction along with the islamic conquests

the female Palestinian pilgrims never practice female circumcision, for Israel to demand murdering them.

who said that Egypt did not inspect Palestinian passports? do you want Egypt to recognize Hamas' issued passports?

Well Jew boys are mutilated at Birth. Do they get any choice when it comes to having their genitals mutilated? And why can't jewish women get divorced without their husbands consent? And why do Jewish women wear wigs? And why don't jewish man sit on chairs or touch food that has been touched by an 'unclean' woman? It's because they are medeival and 'It is a way of controlling your women folk'

circumcision is not mutilation. I hear all British Royal males are circumcised at birth, just like good Jewish boys. By the way, so are Muslims boys, except not at birth, but at the age of three, six or even thirteen. Without the benefit of anesthesia. Poor, poor, Europa!

Only an Israeli government led by Olmert could have believed that Egypt would willingly provide effective security at the borders of Gaza. Israel can never entrust its security to 3rd parties. There are no partners and can be no peace through appeasement and blind faith.

you must know the female circumcision is mainly due to religious reasons Or then medical reasons....WHo said that is illegal..it is a religion...we don't follow the standard law in such case....simply it is a religion..so Why do you show me your stupid article...surely who did write such article on Wikipedia is someone like you...NOT me..wikipedia is just an encyclopedia NOT religlion.... so your article is NOTHING and doesn't mean anything for me....both muslims and jews are circumcised and some of rabbi also recommend female circumcision....