Despite US efforts, no Egypt-Israel ?hot line.? Cairo hosts Gen. Soleimani

The Israel Defense Forces announced last week the closure to Israeli civilian traffic of a 182-kilometer long strip, 300 meters deep, along the Israeli-Egyptian border, carving out Israel?s first security zone in its sovereign territory. The step was taken as a direct result, DEBKAfile reports, of the Obama administration?s failed effort to breathe life into the US-Egyptian-Israeli partnership for combating terror, when US Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence Michael Vickers visited Cairo earlier this month.

The three-way collaboration was concluded last November for ending the Gaza conflict and persuading Israel to refrain from a ground incursion into the Strip. Reconnecting the ?hot line,? between the presidential palace in Cairo and Israel?s defense center in Tel Aviv was to have been part of the deal. Maintained by the Mubarak regime and military rule which followed, the line was cut off when the Muslim Brotherhood came to power last July. More

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