CAIRO, Sept 8 (Aswat Masriya) – Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi denied on Monday Israeli media reports that he agreed to offer parts of Egyptian lands to Palestinians, reported state-run news agency MENA.

Israel's Army Radio reported on Monday that during his meeting with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday, Sisi offered expanding the Gaza Strip to five times its current size by granting Palestinians 1600 square kilometers in Sinai.

"Nobody can afford to do that," Sisi reportedly said during an event celebrating Teachers' Day.

Abbas's aide Tayeb Abdel-Rahim also denied the news to the Palestinian news agency Ma'an on Monday.

http://en.aswatmasriya.com/news/view.aspx?id=c300561d-23b4-4c0b-8548-d8e8fdbe8589

the route from the WB to the Sinai a "Trail of Tears" for good measure.

"Trail of Tears" is just the right analogy.

They think they are being clever.

rejected it outright

I guess the model is moving from the South African apartheid model to some hybrid of Milosevic and Andrew Jackson.

The Islamic State's goal is to conquer Jerusalem, Kadima party chairman and former defense minister Shaul Mofaz said Monday. Speaking at a conference held by the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism in Herzliya, Mofaz said Islamic State terrorists are active throughout the region, and are looking to move in to Jordan, Gaza and Lebanon. "But their goal is Jerusalem, just like Hamas.

Islamic State and Hamas are one, let us make no mistake. They are from the same village, and they are branches of the same tree," he said.

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He called for a demilitarized Palestinian state, with no army, missiles, or armored vehicles that can threaten Israel. "Hamas is stronger and bigger than the Islamic State. The Islamic State has about 15,000 members. Hamas is made up of 25,000 members. It can continue to function despite the very severe blow it absorbed [this summer]," said the Knesset Member and ex-IDF chief of staff.

In exchange for disarmament, Gaza could receive 50 billion dollars over five years for reconstruction, he said. This would "disconnect Hamas from [Gazan] civilians and give the Palestinian Authority an opportunity to move into Gaza, together with reconstruction." But if no arrangement that includes disarmament is reached, Israel will have no choice but to disarm Gaza by force, he warned. "Before we send in the army and our sons, we must try it through an arrangement.

http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Islamic-States-goal-is-to-conquer-Jerusalem-just-like-Hamas-374758

$50 billion for disarmament would be a very, very sweet deal.

The rest, eeks.

I'm pretty sure it wasn't Mofaz.

oil production countries probably could come up with that amount and not blink an eye.

Who will provide security for this disarmed Palestine? Why is it the same nation constantly working to conquer Palestine and either disperse or destroy its people, demanding disarmament?

Will we be listening to Putin's demands for an unarmed Ukraine next?

President Mahmoud Abbas' office on Monday dismissed reports that Egypt offered part of the Sinai peninsula to the PLO as part of a Palestinian state.

Secretary-general of Abbas' office, al-Tayyib Abd al-Rahim, said the reports were "fabricated" and the Palestinian leadership would not accept any alternative to a Palestinian state on 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital.

According to Israeli army radio, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi reportedly offered 1,600 square kilometers (994 square miles) in Sinai to expand the Gaza Strip, which would become a Palestinian state controlled by the PA.

The area, reported to be five times larger than Gaza, would be demilitarized and the PLO would have to renounce demands for 1967 borders, the report added.

http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=726105