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...TIME that in the Aswan meetings with security chiefs, "the message was sent to Egypt that they need to do a much better job than they are doing at the moment" at curbing the smuggling from Egypt. In the past few months, Egyptians have arrested arms smugglers going into Gaza and suspected suicide bombers coming...
...wariness over Hamas is shared by U.S. and Palestinian officials. They told TIME that Hamas - despite its public commitment to a new coalition government with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas - has used a five-month cease-fire with Israeli forces to stage an unprecedented arms build-up in the Gaza strip. "They're armed to the teeth," said one senior U.S. official. "This is not like your average little militia." Indeed, one Israeli official said that, in recent months, Hamas has sent "dozens" of militants to Iran for advanced training in weapons that can destroy aircraft and tanks. Hamas insists that...
...halted its armed struggle against Israel. He added that Hamas was bracing for another intifadah or uprising. These are not necessarily empty threats: Israeli intelligence officials say that in recent months Hamas and other militant groups smuggled dozens of tons of explosives and weapons through tunnels into Gaza in preparation for a future battle with the Israelis...
...public good. During the Lebanon War, when the government was slow to shelter hundreds of thousands of Israelis who fled the Katyusha fire in the north, Gaydamak erected a tent city that housed thousands of families. Last fall, when the town Sderot was facing regular Qassam rocket fire from Gaza, Gaydamak paid to bus thousands of residents down south to stay in high-end hotels...
...past that he would support Netanyahu for the Prime Minister's post, Gaydamak nonetheless promotes talks with the Palestinians sooner rather than later (something Netanyahu does not support) and says Israel should be doing more to improve the quality of life for people in the West Bank and Gaza. While he insists he's not trying to be a kingmaker, he has put himself into a position to do just that. And though he says he has no political ambitions of his own, he adds, "It is not impossible that I'll have to make an uncomfortable decision...