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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
s that faile= to achieve much. However, the IMF loan conditions are based mainly on the=gradual reduction of fuel subsidies, which is a pledge that Qandil's gov=rnment has failed to fulfil, fearing the response of the street which is still in a "revolutionary" mindset= 10 EFTA_R1_00107023 EFTA017851
el, anxious not to kill its peace accord with Egypt, would not dare to respond directly. Indeed, Israel resorted to thwarting attacks emerging from Sinai and the Gaza Strip as best it could by preventing Gazans from getting to Sinai in the first place. On a number of occasions, Israel preemptively t
a was no more politically valuable than those conducted by the late Omar Suleiman, the former head of Egyptian intelligence during the Mubarak era. Qandil's statements of condemnation do not scare Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Prime Minister, who launched the attack for electoral purposes and to ch
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
rime Minister Ismail Haniveh. "We are all behind you, the struggling nation, the heroic that is presenting its children as heroes every day," Mr. Qandil said at the panicked hospital, filled with casualties. The LA Times reported that an emotional Qandil held up a blood-stained sleeve, saying it c
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