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【以色列《國土報》網站4月，28日報道】埃及外長納比勒‧阿拉比對卡塔爾半島電視臺說，埃及正準備永久開放拉法口岸，使得貨物和人員可以不再受以色列的監督而自由進出加沙地帶。
阿拉比說，埃及將在7到10天內採取措施，緩解“巴勒斯坦國的封鎖和苦難”。
這個聲明表明埃及在加沙政策上有了重大改變。在埃及起義之前，這個口岸是與以色列聯合管理的。以色列與埃及警察共同採取的封鎖行動是一項旨在削弱哈馬斯的政策。該政策試圖通過制造經濟困難來降低哈馬斯在加沙民眾中的受歡迎程度。
【美國《紐約時報》網站4月28日報道】題：埃及轉變態度，對以色列的敵人伊朗和哈馬斯熱情起來
埃及正在制定外交政策的新路線，計劃開放與加沙之間被封鎖的邊界，並使與以色列和西方的兩大伊斯蘭主義對頭——哈馬斯和伊朗——的關係實現正常化。這一切已經開始震動中東地區的現有秩序。
因革命成功備受鼓舞、同時著眼于即將到來的選舉的埃及官員說，他們正朝著更準確地反映民意的政策前進。在此過程中，他們試圖重新建立埃及對整個地區的影響力：自從埃及1979年與以色列簽訂和平條約、成為華盛頓和以色列的盟友以來，它在中東地區的影響力便減弱了。
這一新路線的首個重要跡象是，埃及扮演中間人幫助巴勒斯坦的世俗派別法塔赫與其對頭哈馬斯達成了和解協議。外交部發言入門哈‧巴胡姆說：“我們在翻開新的一頁。埃及正在重新發揮它一度放棄的作用。”
埃及的轉變很有可能改變中東地區的力量平衡，讓伊朗獲得與此前不共戴天的敵人接近的新機會，同時拉遠埃及自身與以色列的距離。以色列一直在以略帶驚慌的目光關注著這種轉變。以色列一位高官說：“我們對埃及最近的一些舉動感到不安。”他提到了“伊朗和埃及之間的和解”以及“埃及和哈馬斯之間關係的升級”。
這位官員說：“這些動向可能給以色列的安全造成戰略性影響。過去，即使在埃及努力阻止的情況下哈馬斯也能重新武裝自己。要是埃及不再阻止，他們能在加沙建立多少恐怖力量？”該官員要求不透露姓名，因為相關國家仍在通過外交渠道討論這些事務。
數名前外交宮和分析家說，通過選擇一條更獨立的路線，埃及擁有了給予或收回支持的靈活性，因此也能重獲某種影響力。
Egyptian Military: Israel has no Right to Interfere in the Opening of Rafah Crossing
source: PNN
http://english.pnn.ps/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=9975
Adnan statement was issued on his Facebook page, shortly after the Egyptian Forging Minister Nabiel al-Arabi announced on Thursday that the crossing will be open for supplies and people in both ways next week, ending the four years long siege on Gaza.
On Friday Israeli officials said that the opening of Rafah crossing could affect Israel's national security at a strategic level.
Israeli placed the Gaza Strip under siege in June of 2007. The army closed all crossings leading in and out of Gaza leaving the 1.5 million Palestinians living in the costal enclave in short of Food, fuel and Medical supplies.
Rafah crossing was handed over to the Palestinians by Israel in 2005 under international supervision. In 2006 when Hamas took control of the Gaza Strip after ousting President Mahmoud Abbas forces Egypt closed Rafah crossing and only opened it two to three days a month for humanitarian cases only.
Egypt to Open Gaza Border Crossing
source: Palestine Chronicle
http://www.palestinechronicle.com/news.php?id=ac0980a7257e2c2c7ad8f9cb141d8432&mode=details#ac0980a7257e2c2c7ad8f9cb141d8432
Egypt is to permanently open the Rafah border crossing to ease the Israeli blockade on Gaza, Nabil al-Arabi, the country's foreign minister, has said.
Arabi said Egypt would take "important steps to help ease the blockade on Gaza in the few days to come".
Speaking to Al Jazeera on Friday, the minister said Egypt would no longer accept that the Rafah border, Gaza's only crossing that bypasses Israel, remain blocked, describing the decision to seal it off as "shameful".
The announcement came days after Hamas, which controls Gaza, and their secular West Bank rivals Fatah, which controls the Palestinian Authority (PA), agreed to end their rift and form an interim government to prepare for elections.
In talks before the deal, the two sides had discussed reopening the crossing after positioning PA representatives at the border, a condition in a US-brokered 2005 border crossing agreement between Israel and the PA.
Mahmud Zahar, a senior Hamas official, told the AFP news agency that it was understood that the crossing, which under the 2005 agreement was to be monitored by European Union delegates, would be opened after a unity deal.
Israeli Concerns
A senior official in Jerusalem said Israel was "very concerned" about the implications of the Rafah crossing being open.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, the official said Hamas had already built up a "dangerous military machine" in northern Sinai which could be further strengthened by opening Rafah.
"What power could they amass if Egypt was no longer acting to prevent that build-up?" the official said.
Earlier this week, unknown assailants in northern Sinai blew up a gas pipeline supplying Israel and Jordan, the second time it has been sabotaged in 10 weeks.
"We are troubled by the developments in Egypt, by the voices calling to annul the peace treaty, by the rapprochement between Egypt and Iran, and by the upgrading of relations between Egypt and Hamas," the Israeli source said.
"These developments potentially have strategic implications for Israel's national security."
Palestinian officials welcomed the Egyptian move, with Saeb Erakat, the PA's chief negotiator, saying it was one step towards loosening the siege on the Gaza Strip.
"We welcome this step by Egypt. We have been pressing them all the time to end the suffering of the people in Gaza, but the real siege is caused by Israel because there are many border crossing with Israel but only one with Egypt," he said.
"We ask Israel to open all the borders to end this crime against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip," he said.
Hatem Ewidah, the Hamas official in charge of border crossings in Gaza, also welcomed the move, but stressed it was "important to open the commercial crossing with Egypt" to reduce the impact of the blockade.
Shift in Power
In a reminder of the border tensions, which is honeycombed with tunnels that supply Gaza with everything from cars and cattle to guns, police announced hours after Arabi's comments that smugglers had shot dead an Egyptian soldier on Thursday.
The border has remained largely shut since June 2006 when Israel imposed a tight blockade on Gaza after fighters snatched Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, who is still being held.
The blockade was tightened a year later when Hamas seized control of the territory, ousting forces loyal to the Western-backed PA.
The UN has called the blockade illegal and repeatedly demanded it be lifted.
(Agencies via Al Jazeera)
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