Via JPost:

Egypt is currently building an underground metal wall that will reach a depth of 16 meters, as part of an effort to cut off smuggling tunnels used by Hamas to bring advanced weaponry into Gaza.

Israeli officials said they doubted the wall would be effective, since most of the smuggling tunnels were dug to depths reaching over 30 meters and sometimes even 50 meters.

While Egypt has slightly increased its counter-smuggling activity along the Gaza border, Israel believes Hamas is continuing to bring weapons into Gaza without difficulty.

Hezbullah activity in Egypt is/was performed with the full knowledge of Iran. Via MESI:

The publication of Hizbullah’s subversive plan against Egypt and the exposure of a Shiite group headed by a Hizbullah activist that planned to act against Egyptian targets diverted attention from the challenge that Hizbullah has made against the very foundations of Lebanese authority. On April 3, 2009, Hizbullah published its political platform in advance of elections to the Lebanese parliament scheduled for June 7, 2009. The document calls for the abolition of sectarian politics and for the enactment of a new election law that would alter the equation of sectarian forces in Lebanon. In this manner, Hizbullah seeks to destroy the foundations of the sectarian regime in Lebanon agreed upon in the National Pact of 1943 that has been preserved by the Lebanese state ever since. The abolition of the existing political system will advance Hizbullah toward its fundamental goal: the establishment of an Islamic state and a complete Iranian takeover of Lebanon. The scholarly analyses that define Hizbullah as a Lebanese national movement are baseless. What Lebanese national interests are served by subversive activity in Egypt? What Lebanese interests seek the transfer of Iranian arms from Sudan and Sinai to Gaza? What national Lebanese ideology seeks to subvert the delicate sectarian structure upon which the modern Lebanese state is predicated?

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Via Ha’aretz:

An unusual statement released in Cairo last week discusses Hizbullah’s activities in Egypt, with plans by its operatives to attack tourist sites there and possibly shipping through the Suez Canal. On the basis of the details released in Egypt, this is one of Hizbullah’s largest undercover terrorist operations outside Lebanon.

“Exposing the ring perhaps reflects the willingness of those who run it to assist Hamas, but mostly to harm Egypt,” an Egyptian political source told Ha’aretz.

“Whoever thinks Egypt will set aside its national interests and allow terrorist groups run by foreigners to operate from inside its territory is making a bitter mistake.”

Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah is held directly responsible for funding and organizing the terrorist ring inside Egypt.

Iran is depicted in the Egyptian press as the supreme enemy of Egypt and the Arabs in general. The revelations about the ring confirm Egyptian suspicions and justify Cairo’s diplomatic efforts against Iran.

We already knew this.  What took Mubarak so long to learn it? Via JPost:

Egyptian President Mubarak told a meeting of the Egyptian ruling party that “the Persians are trying to devour the Arab states,” according to a report in the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Jarida on Thursday.

Haaretz correspondent Yoav Stern reports in today’s Hebrew edition that the Egyptian Navy will carry out the largest exercise in its history at the end of this week, calling it “Victory 41″ to mark the sinking of the Israeli Navy vessel Eilat 41years ago.  47 Israeli sailors died and 91 were wounded in the attack.  The day has been set as a holiday for Egyptian naval forces.

h/t Jihad Watch: According to this story, a Christian was shot dead; also, the reason given for this latest “sectarian” clash was that a Christian woman was selling property to a Muslim. According to this more updated report, however, the real reason is that Muslim men were sexually harassing a Christian woman — an increasingly popular pastime in Egypt.

“Christians, Muslims riot in Egyptian village,” from the Associated Press:

CAIRO, Egypt: Egyptian officials say police have fired tear gas to quell clashes between Christians and Muslims in a southern village.A security official says several shops were set on fire in Sunday’s rioting in el-Tayaba, 220 kilometers (135 miles) south of Cairo. No casualties were reported.

The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to talk to the media.

Fighting erupted late Friday after allegations that Muslims sexually harassed a Christian woman. Police arrested 48 suspects.

If Israel had blown up a smuggling tunnel with people inside it, then there would have been tremendous outrage and this news item would have been splattered everywhere. However, because there is a double-standard when a Muslim kills another Muslim, nobody makes a peep. Via LA Times:

Palestinian officials said Tuesday that Egyptian forces blew up a smuggling tunnel with five people inside, killing at least two of them.

Palestinians use dozens of tunnels under the border between Gaza and Egypt to smuggle in weapons, cash and contraband. In recent months, 42 people have been killed in tunnel collapses.

Via Ha’aretz:

Egypt halted the supply of natural gas to Israel on Friday, most of which is used by the Israel Electric Corporation. In 2006 the Egyptian-Israeli consortium EMG began laying a 100-kilometer undersea pipeline to bring the gas from El-Arish in Egypt to Ashkelon, at a cost of $470 million. Gas began to flow on May 1, 2008, but only about a third of the promised amount has been forthcoming. Meanwhile, opposition has been rising in Egypt, partially against the sale of gas to Israel, but mainly against the relatively low price set in the contract. Sources in Israel’s energy market say that Egypt simply doesn’t have the production capacity to supply its own consumption of gas and its contractual obligations to clients.

Israel’s National Infrastructures Ministry said, “We have no doubt that Egypt will stand by the agreement it signed with the government in Israel….The ministry is in constant contact with government officials in Cairo and in parallel is making great effort to assure additional sources of gas, including Russia and Azerbaijan.”

Israeli security officials have expressed concern that terror organizations may attempt to carry out attacks against Israelis vacationing in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula during the upcoming holiday season.

Officials said Tuesday that Global Jihad terrorists were training in Sinai and Gaza.

“Conservatives in the Egyptian parliament have made female genital mutilation (circumcision) legal again in Egypt.”

Conservatives? What unevolved neanderthal uses the term “conservative” to describe these barbarians? Conservative? These are misogynist sadists. What a cruel misrepresentation to describe the barbaric act of slicing off the clitoris of a child as “conservative”. That one would use such terminology to describe such a cruel painful hateful anti-female primitive act is like calling Hitler “ethnically challenged”. Leave it to the left to soften the west in order to dilute the horrors inherent in Islam’s sharia law. From INN:

Conservatives in the Egyptian parliament have made female genital mutilation (circumcision) legal again in Egypt. The conservatives succeeded in striking several laws that had been passed by the parliament’s religious Shura Council in the past. The laws canceled also include a law limiting marriage age to 18 and up, a law permitting a mother to register a child on her name and a law allowing neighbors of a family that beats its children to report the beatings to the police.

One of the parliament’s members said that the law permitting a mother to register a child on her name “encourages adultery.”

A Cairo appellate judge who is also the legal advisor to the Council for the Mother and Child said that the decision to strike the laws contravened international agreements signed by Egypt.