How could Israel + Egypt's JOINT Blockade of Gaza be "illegal" when EGYPT willingly participated?

Anti-semites, peace activists, and various dim bulbs around the world carelessly refer to Israel's blockade of Gaza as "ILLEGAL."

Yet they fail to recognize that EGYPT ALSO WAS BLOCKADING GAZA with Israel for at least 3 years.

How could the blockade be "illegal" and yet Egypt participated fully in the blockade? Egypt is a major, powerful, well-armed Muslim country. Egypt had the 2nd most powerful military in the Middle East after Iraq, until the invasion of Iraq. Egypt is no push-over.


ASSOCIATED PRESS
June 08, 2010 Sarah El Deeb
Egypt Ends Blockade On Gaza ‘Indefinitely’
Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt.

After three years of cooperating in the Israeli blockade of Gaza, Egypt says it will leave its border with the Palestinian territory open indefinitely for humanitarian aid and restricted travel.
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Egypt was not exactly a reluctant participant in imposing the blockade. Like Israel, Egypt watched with concern as Hamas militants wrenched control of Gaza from their rivals in the Fatah movement of Western-backed President Mahmoud Abbas during bloody street battles in 2007.

Egypt, which had its own war against Islamic radicals in the 1990s, fears sharing a border with a territory controlled by Islamic militants who have the backing of rising regional rival Iran. Just to the south, Egypt’s Sinai peninsula has been the scene of major terrorist attacks against tourist hotels, the last one in 2006.

Egypt paid a price for its part in the blockade, including protests at home against the government of Mubarak, who has been accused of being “an agent” for Israel. And in January 2008, Hamas militants blew up a section of the Gaza-Egypt border wall in an attempt to end the blockade, allowing hundreds of thousands of Gazans to pour into Egypt to stock up on supplies and visit friends and relatives they had not seen for years.

It took 12 days for Egyptian forces to restore order and close the border.