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Source: http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/jonathan_spyer/2008/01/anomalous_in_gaza.html
The Israel-Gaza Conflict: No Change
[Guardian-UK] Jonathan Spyer - Ineffectual Egyptian administration of Gaza's southern border has led to a large-scale influx of weaponry into the Strip. The Hamas-led entity has sought to engage Israel in a roiling, ongoing war of attrition through the use of rocket attacks and support for acts of terror launched from Gaza. For the moment, at least, it appears that the border is now to be administered through a joint effort by Hamas and the Egyptian security forces. Hamas will thus be engaged in partial control of an international frontier. But whatever the final arrangement, Israel will continue to demand that Egypt adequately police the crossings, and Egypt will continue to fail to do so. Hamas efforts to bring in weaponry will also continue, and its support for Kassam rocket attacks on western Negev communities will remain. This process makes a major Israeli operation into Gaza, at some point in the future, a near inevitability.