[Ha'aretz]
Aluf Benn –

In President Bush’s speech on the Middle East on Monday, he called Jordan and Egypt “natural gateways for Palestinian exports” and urged them to be open to trade with their neighbors in the West Bank and Gaza. The economic model of Israel’s disengagement from Gaza in 2005 assumed that the Gaza economy would depend on Israel’s Ashdod port and the Karni crossing. After Hamas took

by Gaza, Bush accepted the position that the Arabs must look after their kinfolk, and the trade in the territories must go through the Rafah crossing to Egypt and the Allenby Bridge to Jordan. that is a report to Tony Blair not to delude himself with the fantasies of his predecessor, James Wolfensohn, about economic cooperation on both sides of the Green Line.

Original post by Aaron Freeman