This is John Batchelor, conversation with colleague Jonathan Schanser, Foundation for the Defense of Democracy.

Not only about the firefight incident at the border between Sinai, Egypt, and Gaza, leaving one Egyptian soldier KIA, but also the suspicion

for quite some months that Egypt had more to do with the Hamas ability to raise an army to

arm an army to launch the attack than being a bystander.

That the highway of tunnels running underneath Gaza into Egypt were the

resupply and escape and rotation of Hamas for years.

Much more to learn.

Jonathan comments, knowing of course that it's a diplomatic story as well as a military

story.

The Rafa crossing has underneath it the Raffa tunnels what is to be learned about who

knew and when in Cairo.

Here's Jonathan Schanser, Foundation for Defense of democracies. Much more of this tonight

and in weeks to come. Well, I'm not sure that the Israel, that the Egyptians rather are going

to take responsibility for anything that's happened.

I understand right now that is a very unlikely scenario.

The last thing they're going to want to do is to issue a mei-Ca for what they have apparently allowed to operate beneath the

Philadelphia route for maybe as much as six years but this firefight that took place the other day

on the border is deeply alarming.

As we understand it, an Egyptian soldier

opened fire on the Israelis, the Israelis fired back, killing an Egyptian soldier.

Now after that, I think if there's any good news from that episode, it was that the Egyptians were quick to dismiss it as an incident, not as an

escalation, not as an act of war. So clearly they're not looking to create problems with the Israelis, but one does have to ask why are they

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