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Among the factors that contributed to the recent escalation between Israel and the Palestinians in Gaza, Livni mentioned the weapon smuggling that makes way through Egypt to supply militants there. The control over the Philadelphi corridor, a buffer zone between Egypt and Gaza, was handed over to the Egyptian government by Israel in 2005. Livni expressed hope that Egypt will do “a better job” in preventing the weapon smuggling, and added that “maybe we did make a mistake in leaving the Philadelphi corridor and maybe we will have to change...
...second scenario: Israel invades a broad swath of northern Gaza as far as the teeming Jabaliya refugee camp, pushing the rocketeers back out of range of Sderot and other Israeli communities. In this plan, Israel would also turn a corridor along the Philadelphi Road, between Gaza and Egypt, into a no-man's land to stop smugglers from bringing more weapons into Gaza through an underground maze of tunnels. Israel would also cut off Gaza's electricity, gas and water, in what deputy premier Haim Ramon described as "a price tag" that Israel should stick on every rocket fired...
...basic security flaw in Sharon's plan is unlikely to be eliminated, even if Israel picks a brief lull in fighting as an opportunity to withdraw. That's because Sharon's plan requires the Israeli military to maintain control of a strip between Gaza and Egypt it calls the "Philadelphi Road." That would mean that like the Hezbollah gunners that target Israeli outposts in the disputed Shebaa Farms on the border, Palestinian gunners will continue have an immediate and accessible Israeli target in their sights even when the last settlers are gone...
...Reds' opponents in the National League play-offs are the Philadelphi Phillies, who had a hefty lead, the slumped, evoking the ghosts of star crossed 1964, when the team contrive to blow the title. This year, as the 15½-game Phillies lead dwindled to a low of three games, the comparisons began. Philadelphia rallied and won, but sound memories lingered. The season ended with bickering as unpredictable Slugger Dick Allen did another walkabout...
National League W L Pct. G.B. Los Angeles 99 63 .611 --- St. Louis 93 69 .574 6 San Francisco 88 74 .543 11 Philadelphi 87 75 .537 12 Cincinnati 86 76 .531 13 Milwaukee 84 78 .519 15 Chicago 82 80 .506 17 Pittsburgh 74 88 .457 25 Houston 66 96 .407 33 New York...