El-arish, Egypt – Egyptian security officials say they have arrested a former sergeant in the Israeli army after he illegally entered from Israel into the Egyptian Sinai Peninsula.
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The authorities say the 24 year-old unarmed Israeli entered Egypt near the Taba crossing.
He was detained by Egyptian authorities Monday. The officials say he was trying to reach the Gaza Strip through Sinai to fight alongside Palestinians. They identified him as Andre Yaacoub.
Also known as Andre Pshenichnikov, a Jewish immigrant to Israel from Tajikistan, he made headlines earlier this year when he announced he wanted to renounce his Israeli citizenship and move to a Palestinian refugee camp in the West Bank.
The Egyptian officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to reporters.
meshugana!
If the miracle of Israel is her survival through the millennia and her ability to compete and even lead on so many fronts, then the miracle of the Palestinians is their PR. That this pariah of the world, whose only contribution has been the suicide belt, can muster so much sympathy, is clearly the work of the satan
Let him go. Let him drive the Egyptians insane.
Dont underestimate the mossad!!! He may be truly a undercovet
Not any more !!
sigh
youthful indiscretion used to so benign
Even if this meshuganah had reached the Gaza Strip, the Palestinians would never have trusted him, as he would have been considered an infidel, or a spy, and could have been executed. The Egyptians essentially saved his life.