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Egypt Unlikely to Train Gazans
(Jerusalem Post) Herb Keinon- Egypt has no intention at this point of sending security specialists to train Palestinian officers in Gaza, according to Western diplomatic assessments. The Egyptians are raising unrealistic conditions, asking for Israeli and Palestinian guarantees that Egyptian security forces won't end up in the line of fire, and urging the U.S. to hold an Egyptian-Israeli-PA-U.S. conference on disengagement. Israel is against such a conference, arguing that disengagement is a unilateral Israeli move that does not need any kind of international conference. The assessments also warn that in light of the recent warming of bilateral ties between Jerusalem and Cairo, the Egyptians will most likely take an even more stridently anti-Israel position in international bodies, as a way of "balancing" their support for Israel's disengagement plan.