E.U. ABANDONS GAZA/EGYPT BORDER CROSSING

THIS (AND THE U.N.'S WILLFUL BLINDNESS TO SYRIA'S REARMING OF HEZBOLLAH) IS WHY ISRAEL CANNOT TRUST INTERNATIONAL PEACEKEEPERS AND MUST RELY UPON ITSELF, AND ONLY ITSELF, FOR ITS DEFENSE.

EU Monitors to Stay Away from Gaza-Egypt Border Crossing - Herb Keinon (Jerusalem Post)
European monitors will not return to the Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt while Hamas is in control there, Patrick Delval, the deputy head of the EU monitoring force, said Wednesday. The border crossing has been closed since June 9 and is now in Hamas' hands. The EU's ambassador to Israel, Ramiro Cibrian, said that the November 2005 agreement on the deployment of the force clearly stipulated that Abbas' Presidential Guard would control the crossing. The 70-man EU force is in Ashkelon, waiting for further orders.