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Nations United Against Israel

Quartet, Egypt move to sever Gaza from Israel


By Jerusalem Newswire Editorial Staff
July 07, 2004

Representatives of the Gentile nations met this week in the capital of Israel to discuss the next step in their plans to sever the Jewish people from parts of their God-given homeland.

Egypt, meanwhile, looked to reassert its influence in the Gaza Strip by making its involvement in Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s “disengagement” plan contingent upon Israel meeting several key demands.

Both Egypt and the so-called “Middle East Quartet” want to see Israel’s flight from Gaza utilized as a stepping-stone to reinvigorate the stalled Road Map “peace” plan – a plan that would conclude with the establishment of a sovereign Muslim “Palestinian” state in the heart of Israel’s native soil.

As such, they are pushing for Sharon’s unilateral move to become a two-sided affair between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.

Audacious meeting

In a move described by one observer as “audacious,” representatives from the United States, European Union, United Nations and Russia – collectively known as the “Middle East Quartet” – met this week in the capital of the Jewish state to discuss how best to forward their plans to sever Israel’s ties with parts of its biblical patrimony.

Specific to the agenda was Sharon’s plan to unilaterally uproot the Jewish residents of the Gaza Strip and hand the area wholly over to “Palestinian” control.

The Quartet is interested turning Israel’s Gaza pullout into a jumping off point for further implementation of its Road Map “peace” plan, culminating in the creation of another Muslim Arab state on the central heartland of the Jewish national home.

On Tuesday, the Quartet mulled Egypt’s role in the Gaza Strip following Israel’s departure, and on Wednesday planned to meet with Palestinian Authority officials in Ramallah.

Israel turned down a request by the international body to send a government representative to the meetings.

Egyptian overlords

Sharon has on more than one occasion expressed his interest in involving Egypt in Israel’s flight from Gaza, especially in regards to securing the area and preventing terrorist attacks from it.

But Cairo Monday told a visiting delegation of extreme left-wing Israeli politicians Sunday that it had several demands it wanted met before it would go along with Sharon’s designs.

In particular, the Egyptians want Israel to free the PA to reopen the Gaza International Airport, build a major seaport, and utilize a “safe passage” route connecting Gaza with the Judean town of Hebron via the Negev region.

Israel has said it would continue to tightly control the Gaza borders, coastline and airspace following a withdrawal in order to prevent the area from turning into a heavily armed terrorist war camp.

Egypt’s checked="checked"="checked="checked"" involvement in Gaza is seen by many as an attempt by the Arab state to reassert dominance over the area prior to the Israeli pullout.

Egypt occupied Gaza in contravention of international law from 1948 to 1967, when the Strip was liberated by Israel in the Six Day War.

Jewish Gaza

The Jewish claim to the land of the Gaza Strip goes back to the fifteenth chapter of the book of Joshua, when the tribe of Judah was allotted its portion of the land of Israel – promised by God to the descendents of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

The territory encompassing “Gaza, its settlements and villages, as far as the Wadi of Egypt and the coastline of the Great Sea,” was to make up the western portion of Judah’s inheritance.

Gaza was for centuries controlled by Israel’s arch-nemesis, the Philistines, until their eventual defeat at the hands of King David.

In the 11th century, with Jerusalem having been turned into a backwater by the Roman destruction, the Jewish community of Gaza flourished.

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