Observations concerning the Gaza situation: Egypt

Al Jazeera, on the money, reporting on 18 November:

Egypt began to pipe natural gas to Israel in May, in line with a 2005 agreement to deliver 1.7 billion cubic metres of gas per year.
In recent months, Ahmed Mohamed Nazif, Egypt's prime minister, has signalled that Cairo wants to increase revenues from its energy exports amid the rising cost of gas, although he has not explicitly referred to the deal with Israel.

Israel has choked Gaza for many months, and now they are invading it and Egypt continues to send Israel supplies of gas. Egypt sacrificed Gaza for peace with the US-Israeli axis and a return of Israeli-occupied Egyptian territory. The price for that peace is paid by the Palestinians in their lives and their land.

"According to some experts and analysts here in Egypt, the country pledged to supply Israel with petrol and oil from Sinai in the Camp David peace treaty [between Israel and Egypt in 1979]," our correspondent said.

"When Egyptian oil supplies began to run out three or four years ago, Israel stepped in and demanded the export of gas.

"This is why the Egyptian government went into this memorandum of understanding with the Israeli government. It was not subject to approval by the Egyptian parliament – this is what has angered activists here."

And they wonder why they have an Islamic backlash? They will always reflect Arab popular opinion better than any hopelessly compromised gang of corrupt stooges ever could.