Egyptian president Morsi confronts a Palestine-Sinai-Israel dilemma
Mohamed Morsi faces pressures from several directions as he has to close the Rafah border in the face of Palestinian allies, receive heat from Tel Aviv and Washington for 'security threats' to Israel in the Sinai peninsula
President Mohamed Morsi has announced an official state of mourning over the killing of Egyptian border guards in the midst of an attempted militant attack on Israeli targets on Sunday evening near the Gaza-Rafah border.
Morsi had told state television on Sunday evening soon after the attack that "the criminal act will not go unpunished".
However, the president has neither identified the suspected culprits nor indicated the nature of ramifications that this attack will bring about.
"Egypt definitely cannot blame Israel for the killing of Egyptian soldiers on the borders because we know, and Egypt knows, that Israel has been sending warnings in writing of a potential security breakdown in Sinai for the past few days," said a Cairo-based Western diplomat.
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