Living With The Breach: Israeli Strategists Weigh Gaza Options ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) by Leslie Susser - January 29, 2008 - 6:40pm The collapse of the border wall between the Gaza Strip and Egypt has done much more than break Israel’s siege of the Hamas-run strip. It also has opened up new, far-reaching strategic options for Israel while exposing it to grave new dangers. » Read more

Border Crisis Bolsters Islamists ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Los Angeles Times by Jeffrey Fleishman - January 29, 2008 - 6:38pm Egypt's main Islamist party and other opposition groups are strengthening their appeal by using images of desperate Palestinians streaming out of the Gaza Strip to provoke wider protests against President Hosni Mubarak's 26-year-old government. » Read more

Israel Won't Resist Abbas Control At Egypt Crossing ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Reuters by Adam Entous - January 29, 2008 - 5:59pm Israel will not stand in the way of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas taking control of Gaza's breached border with Egypt as part of a deal to sideline Hamas Islamists who rule the enclave, officials said on Tuesday. But it is unclear how Abbas, the Fatah leader, would be able to assert control over the crossing with Egypt given opposition from Hamas, which seized the coastal territory in June and blasted open the Egyptian border wall last week in defiance of an Israeli-led blockade. » Read more

Egypt Presses For Abbas To Control Border ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The New York Times by Steven Erlanger - January 29, 2008 - 5:59pm Egypt said Monday that it preferred that the Palestinian Authority president, Mahmoud Abbas, take control of the breached border between Gaza and Egypt, seeming to exclude Hamas, the Islamist group that took control of Gaza from Mr. Abbas in June. » Read more