DEBKAfile Special Report
January 21, 2010, 3:43 PM (GMT+02:00)
Israeli premier draws a line
Even after the establishment of a Palestinian state, Israel should keep a military presence in the eastern West Bank along the border with Jordan, said Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu Wednesday, Jan. 20. He spoke ahead of US President Barack Obama's Middle East envoy George Mitchell's arrival.
DEBKAfile adds: The Likud prime minister has partly redrawn the lines of the "Alon Plan" which followed the Security Council Resolution 242 clause promising Israel "secure and recognized boundaries" after the Six-Da
Cairo turns screw on Hamas: Execute snipers who killed Egyptian soldier
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report
January 20, 2010, 11:30 PM (GMT+02:00)
Egyptian soldier killed on Gaza guard tower
Cairo has warned Hamas' Damascus-based leader Khaled Meshaal in its toughest language ever that Egypt will have no more truck with his Palestinian extremist organization until the snipers who shot dead an Egyptian soldier on the Gaza-Sinai border on Jan. 6 are tried and executed, DEBKAfile's intelligence sources report.
Their names are known to Cairo.
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