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Like many Egyptians, Mohammed Sayeed had always harboured sympathy for his Arab brothers in neighbouring Israeli-occupied Palestine. But that sympathy was tested last month when Hamas blew open the Gaza Strip's land crossing with Egypt and Palestinians crossed the border in droves. "It wasn't nice at all," remembers Mr Sayeed, whose restaurant near the town of al-Arish, 30 miles from the border, was overrun by Gazans demanding food and service. "They used very bad language that we didn't expect them to use. We had the impression before that they were good people going through a hard time. But this is not the way we expected them to be at all."Basic supplies in Gaza have dwindled since June, when heavy sanctions followed Hamas's takeover. The Rafah foot crossing into Egypt was shut then, too, when its guards and foreign monitors fled amid rising violence, trapping Palestinians inside Gaza until the border fence was blown up on Jan 23 and hundreds of thousands streamed into Egypt. For four days they cleaned out shops until Egyptian forces resealed the border and built a concrete wall.But if the Egyptian shopkeepers feel lukewarm towards their Palestinian cousins, so too does the Egyptian government. Gaza was administered from Cairo until it was captured by Israel in 1967, and while Egypt is one of only two Arab states along with Jordan that recognises Israel diplomatically, cultural ties to Gaza remain strong. However, the political relationship between the two has become more tense since the hardline Islamist group Hamas took power in 2006....
...Israeli-occupied Palestine...
Quote...Israeli-occupied Palestine...Who the **** wrote that? gator?I happen to think its Arab-occupied-Israel.
