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te.org/contributo=/tamara-wittes> =/span> <=span> 10 May 2013 -- The rocket strike= that a militant Islamist group recently fired from the Egyptian Sinai int= the Israeli city of Eilat served as yet another reminder of how delicate bilateral relations remain two years afte= Egypt's revolution. Terror
However, at the same time,=the Egyptian government is not helping itself or allowing others to help i= to fix the situation. What does it mean for Kandil to name an al-Azhar professor specializing in Islamic jurisprud=nce and murabaha (Sharia-compliant sale) as the country's new finance mi=ister? What
that it would end with a ceasefire with more favorable terms. According to Egyptian media reports, Morsi's plan is to take Hamas to task on the Sinai question in return for opening the Rafah border crossing. The Sinai Peninsula is home to extremists, some of whom have EFTA_R1_00463820 EFTA01977
region. Egyptian Prime Minister Hisham Kandil spent three hours visiting the Gaza Strip on Friday morning. Despite agreeing to a ceasefire during Kandil's brief visit with Hamas leaders, Israeli air strikes continued there, while Hamas fired further rockets at Israel. Three days into what Israel i
se-fire. Their supporters expect them to take a toug= stance and reject all compromises. These groups are affiliated with terror cells based in the Sinai Peninsula,=and some of them have ties to al-Qaida. In the past, they have already blo=ked the attempts of Egyptian intermediaries to broker a cease-
Gaza since Hamas took control in 2007, the visit of such a high-ra=king Egyptian creates a dilemma for Israel. Intense bombing during or befo=e Mr. Kandil's visit could be a public relations disaster internationall=, but agreeing to a cease-fire without responding harshly to the rocket fi=e near Tel Av
Entities connected to both Sinai and Kandil

Bashar al-Assad
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Barack Obama
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Benjamin Netanyahu
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United States
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Hosni Mubarak
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Cairo
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Damascus
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Jerusalem
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Fatah
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Saddam Hussein
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Middle East
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Terje Rod-Larsen
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Mahmoud Abbas
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Ehud Barak
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Mohamed Morsi
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Beirut
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Tel Aviv
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Kuwait
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