Sam Husseini asked this question to the Egyptian rubber stamp speaker, Ahmad Fathi Srur (whose power in Egypt is equivalent to the power Dennis Kucinich in the White House) during his visit in Washington, DC yesterday:

Q: the Palestinian authority of which you speak has broken off relations with Israel. Do you think that Israel has violated international law in its most recent attacks which have killed over a hundred people in the last few days? And wouldn't Egypt's breaking off diplomatic relations constitute a deterrent to Israel?

A: Of course not. Any cut of relations doesn't help anything. What happened with the population of Gaza is wrong. We don't like to see massacre, children being killed. Israel must be proportional. But at the same time Hamas must stop fighting without (?) the atmosphere of peace in the region. But Israel must help.