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		<title>Sisi Is Not Mubarak</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Caroline Glick]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As far as Israel is concerned, the current Egyptian President is the much better man.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/al-sisi.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-246677" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/al-sisi-450x280.jpg" alt="al sisi" width="256" height="159" /></a><em>Originally published by the <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Column-one-Sisi-is-not-Mubarak-383483">Jerusalem Post</a>. </em></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">The Egyptian court’s decision last Saturday to acquit former president Hosni Mubarak, his sons and associates of all remaining charges against them caused most commentators to proclaim that current Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Sisi has turned back the clock. Under his leadership, they say, Egypt has restored Mubarak’s authoritarian regime under a new dictator.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">While this may be how things appear on the surface, the fact of the matter is that at least as far as Israel is concerned, nothing could be further from the truth.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">During his 30-year rule, Mubarak always assessed that threats against Israel were unrelated to threats against Egypt. Due to this view, despite continuous complaints from Jerusalem, Mubarak enabled jihadists to take root in Sinai. He allowed Egypt to be used as the major path for terrorist personnel and armaments to enter Gaza. He took only minor, sporadic action against the smuggling tunnels connecting Gaza to Sinai.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">By 2005, it became apparent that forces from Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran and al-Qaida were operating in the Sinai and cooperating with one another.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Despite warnings from Israel, Mubarak took no effective action to break up the emerging alliance and convergence of forces.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">It was due to Mubarak’s refusal to act that the Palestinians in Gaza were able to begin and massively expand their projectile war of mortars, rockets and missiles against Israel. From the first such attacks, carried out 14 years ago, the Palestinian projectile campaigns could never have happened without Egypt’s effective collaboration.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">On countless occasions, Palestinian terrorist commanders were able to escape to Sinai and avoid arrest by Israeli forces, only to return to Gaza from Sinai and continue their operations.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Mubarak believed that Israel was his safety valve.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">By facilitating jihadist operations against Israel from Egyptian territory, he assumed that he was securing Egypt from them. As he saw things, the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran would be so satisfied with his cooperation in their jihad against the Jews that they would leave him alone.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">It was only in 2009, when Egypt announced the unraveling of a terrorist ring in Sinai comprised of Iranian Revolutionary Guards, Hamas and Hezbollah operatives planning attacks against Israel and Egypt, and seeking the overthrow of the regime, that Mubarak began signaling he may have misjudged the situation. But even then, his actions against those forces were sporadic and half-hearted.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Hamas’s continued assaults against Israel in the years that followed, and the build-up of Muslim Brotherhood and al-Qaida forces in Sinai, were a clear sign that Mubarak was unwilling to contend with the unpleasant reality that the very forces attacking Israel were also seeking to overthrow his regime and destroy the Egyptian state.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In stark contrast, Sisi rose to power as those selfsame forces were poised to destroy the Egyptian state. The Muslim Brotherhood’s rise to power owed in part to the support it received from Hamas.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">During the January 2011 rebellions against Mubarak, Hamas operatives played a key role in storming Egyptian prisons in Sinai and freeing Muslim Brotherhood leaders – including Muslim Brotherhood president Mohammed Morsi – from prison. In 2012 and 2013, Hamas forces reportedly served as shock troops to quell protests against the Muslim Brotherhood regime. Those protests arose in opposition to Morsi’s moves to seize dictatorial powers Mubarak never dreamed of exercising, and his constitutional machinations aimed at transforming Egypt into an Islamic state and hub of a future global caliphate.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Sisi and his generals overthrew the Muslim Brotherhood with Saudi and UAE support in order to prevent Egypt from dissolving into a Sunni jihadist axis in which Hamas, al-Qaida and other jihadist movements were key players, and Iran and Hezbollah were allied forces.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Due to the events that propelled him to power, Sisi has adopted a strategic posture far different from Mubarak’s. As Sisi sees things, Sunni jihadist forces and their Iranian-led Shi’ite allies are existential threats to the Egyptian state even when their primary target is Israel. Sisi accepts that Israel’s fight against them directly impacts Egypt.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">He recognized that when Israel is successful in defeating them, Egypt is more secure. When Israel is weak, the threat to Egypt rises.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Like Israel, Sisi acknowledges that the ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood, which is shared by Hamas, al-Qaida and all other significant Sunni jihadist groups renders all of these groups threats to Egypt. And because of this acknowledgment, Sisi has abandoned Mubarak’s policy of enabling their war against Israel.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Not only has he abandoned Mubarak’s policy of enabling them, Sisi has acted in alliance with Israel in combating them. This is nowhere more evident than in his actions against Hamas in Gaza.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">After seizing power in July 2013, Sisi immediately ordered the Egyptian military to take action to secure the border between Gaza and Sinai. To this end, for the first time, Egypt took effective, continuous steps to block the smuggling of arms and people between the two areas. These steps had a profound impact on Hamas’s regime. Hamas went to war against Israel this past summer in a bid to force Egypt and Israel to open their borders with Gaza in support of the Hamas regime and its jihadist allies.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Hamas was certain that footage of suffering in Gaza would force Egypt to oppose Israel, and so open its border with Gaza. It would also lead to US-led pressure on Israel that would make Israel succumb to Hamas’s demands.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Against all expectations, and previous precedents of Egyptian behavior under both Mubarak and Morsi, Sisi supported Israel against Hamas. Moreover, he brought both Saudi Arabia and the UAE into the unofficial alliance with Israel. The bloc he formed was powerful enough to surmount US pressure to end the war by bowing to Hamas’s demands and opening Gaza’s borders with Egypt and Israel.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Since the cease-fire came into force three months ago, Sisi has continued to seal the border. As a consequence, he has denied Hamas the ability to rebuild Gaza’s terror infrastructure. In its reduced state, Hamas is less able to facilitate the operations of its jihadist brethren in Sinai that are primarily involved in waging an insurgency against the Egyptian state.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">To be sure, the most significant strategic development in recent years is the US’s strategic realignment under President Barack Obama. Under Obama the US has switched sides, supporting Iran and its allies, satellites and assets, including the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas, against America’s Sunni allies and Israel.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">But the alliance that emerged this summer between Israel and Egypt, with the participation of Saudi Arabia and the UAE , is also a highly significant strategic development. For the first time, a major regional power is basing its strategic posture on its understanding that the threats against itself and against Israel stem from the same sources and as a consequence, that the war against Israel is a war against it.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Israelis have argued this case for years to their Arab neighbors as well as to the Americans and other Western states. But for multiple reasons, no one has ever been willing to accept this basic, obvious reality.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">As a consequence, everyone from the Americans to the Europeans to the Saudis long supported policies that empower jihadist forces against Israel.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Sisi became the first major leader to break with this consensus, as a result of actions Hamas took before and since his rise to power. He has brought Saudi Arabia and the UAE along on his intellectual journey.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">And this reassessment has had a profound impact on regional realities generally and on Israel’s strategic posture specifically.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">From Israel’s perspective, this is a watershed event.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The government must take every possible action, in economic and military spheres, to ensure that Sisi benefits from his actions.</span></p>
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		<title>President Sisi’s Gift</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2014 04:22:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Caroline Glick]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Egypt's offer to create a Palestinian state in Sinai -- and why the Palestinians rejected it. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #000000;"><em><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Egyptian-Minister-of-Defe-007.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-240582" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Egyptian-Minister-of-Defe-007.jpg" alt="Egyptian Minister of Defense Abdel-Fattah al-Sissi" width="312" height="256" /></a>Originally published by the <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/President-Sisis-gift-374792">Jerusalem Post</a>. </em></p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Something extraordinary has happened.</p>
<p>On August 31, PLO chief and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas told an audience of Fatah members that Egypt had offered to give the PA some 1,600 kilometers of land in Sinai adjacent to Gaza, thus quintupling the size of the Gaza Strip. Egypt even offered to allow all the so-called “Palestinian refugees” to settle in the expanded Gaza Strip.</p>
<p>Then Abbas told his Fatah followers that he rejected the Egyptian offer.</p>
<p>On Monday Army Radio substantiated Abbas’s claim.</p>
<p>According to Army Radio, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi proposed that the Palestinians establish their state in the expanded Gaza Strip and accept limited autonomy over parts of Judea and Samaria.</p>
<p>In exchange for this state, the Palestinians would give up their demand that Israel shrink into the indefensible 1949 armistice lines, surrendering Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria. Sisi argued that the land Egypt is offering in Sinai would more than compensate for the territory that Abbas would concede.</p>
<p>In his speech to Fatah members, Abbas said, “They [the Egyptians] are prepared to receive all the refugees, [and are saying] ‘Let’s end the refugee story.’” “But,” he insisted, “It’s illogical for the problem to be solved at Egypt’s expense. We won’t have it.”</p>
<p>In other words, Sisi offered Abbas a way to end the Palestinians’ suffering and grant them political independence. And Abbas said, “No, forget statehood. Let them suffer.”</p>
<p>Generations of Israeli leaders and strategists have insisted that Israel does not have the ability to satisfy the Palestinian demands by itself without signing its own death warrant. To satisfy the Palestinian demand for statehood, Israel’s neighbors in Egypt and Jordan would have to get involved.</p>
<p>Until Sisi made his proposal, no Arab leader ever seriously considered actually doing what must be done. Indeed, the rejection of this self-evident Israeli claim has been so overwhelming that in recent years, every Israeli suggestion to this effect was met with raised eyebrows and dismissal by Israelis and foreigners alike.</p>
<p>So what is driving Sisi? How do we account for this dramatic shift? In offering the Palestinians a large swathe of the Sinai, Sisi is not acting out of altruism. He is acting out of necessity. From his perspective, and from the perspective of his non-jihadist Sunni allies in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, the Palestinian campaign against Israel is dangerous.</p>
<p>Facing the prospect of a nuclear-armed Iran, and the rise of jihadist forces from al-Qaida to the Islamic State to the Muslim Brotherhood, the non-jihadist Sunnis no longer believe that the prolongation of the Palestinian jihad against Israel is in their interest.</p>
<p>Egypt and Jordan have already experienced the spillover of the Palestinian jihad. Hamas has carried out attacks in Egypt. The Palestinian jihad nearly destroyed Lebanon and Jordan. Egypt and Saudi Arabia now view Israel as a vital ally in their war against the Sunni jihadists and their struggle against Iran and its hegemonic ambitions. They recognize that Israeli action against Sunni and Shi’ite jihadists in Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran serves the interests of non-jihadi Sunnis. And, especially after the recent conflict in Gaza, they realize that the incessant Palestinian campaign against Israel ultimately strengthens the jihadist enemies of Egypt and Saudi Arabia like Hamas.</p>
<p>Apparently, Sisi’s offer to Abbas is an attempt to help the Palestinian people and take the Palestinian issue out of the hands of Palestinian jihadists.</p>
<p>Unfortunately for Sisi and his fellow non-jihadist Sunnis, Abbas is having none of this.</p>
<p>In rejecting Sisi’s offer Abbas stood true to his own record, to the legacies of every Palestinian leader since Nazi agent Haj Amin el-Husseini, and to the declared strategic goal of his own Fatah party and his coalition partners in Hamas. Since Husseini invented the Palestinians in the late 1920s, their leaders’ primary goals have never been the establishment of a Palestinian state or improving the lives of Palestinians. Their singular goal has always been the destruction of the Jewish state, (or state-in-themaking before 1948).</p>
<p>Sisi offered to end Palestinian suffering and provide the Palestinians with the land they require to establish a demilitarized state. Abbas rejected it because he is only interested hurting Israel. If Israel is not weakened by their good fortune, then the Palestinians should continue to suffer.</p>
<p>For Israel, Sisi’s proposal is a windfall.</p>
<p>First of all, it indicates that the Egyptian-Saudi- UAE decision to back Israel against Hamas in Operation Protective Edge was not a fluke. It was part of an epic shift in their strategic assessments.</p>
<p>And if their regimes survive, their assessments are unlikely to change so long as Iran and the Sunni jihadists continue to threaten them.</p>
<p>This means that for the first time since Israel allied with Britain and France against Egypt in 1956, Israel can make strategic plans as part of a coalition.</p>
<p>Second, Sisi’s plan is good for Israel on its merits.</p>
<p>The only way to stabilize the situation in Gaza and comprehensively defeat Hamas and the rest of the terrorist armies there is by expanding Gaza.</p>
<p>If, as Sisi offered, the Palestinians of Judea and Samaria accept limited autonomy, Israel will no longer be demographically challenged. As a consequence Israel could apply its laws to Area C, ensuring its long-term security requirements and safeguarding the civil rights of all of its citizens.</p>
<p>Sisi’s plan is a boon for Israel as well because it calls Abbas’s bluff.</p>
<p>Abbas is genuflected to by the US and the EU who insist that he is a moderate. The Israeli Left insists that he is the only thing that stands between Israel and destruction.</p>
<p>Yet here we see him openly acknowledging that from a strategic perspective, he is no different from the last of the jihadists. He prefers to see his people wallow in misery and poverty, without a state to call their own, than to see Israel benefit in any way.</p>
<p>Abbas’s rejection of Sisi’s offer demonstrates yet again that he and his Fatah comrades are the problem, not the solution. Continued faith in the PLO as a partner in peace and moderation is foolish and dangerous. He would rather see Hamas and Iran flourish than share a peaceful future with Israel.</p>
<p>The only reason that Abbas is able to continuously reject all offers of statehood and an end to Palestinian suffering, while expanding his diplomatic war against Israel and supporting his coalition partner’s terror war, is because the US and Europe continue to blindly support him.</p>
<p>The final way that Sisi’s offer helps Israel is by showing the futility of the West’s strategy of supporting Abbas.</p>
<p>According to Army Radio’s report, both Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and the Obama administration have been briefed on the Egyptian plan. The Americans reportedly support it.</p>
<p>Netanyahu’s position on the Egyptian proposal was not reported. But his recent statements indicate that he views the Egyptian proposal as a sea change that may facilitate a diplomatic breakthrough.</p>
<p>During his press conference following the conclusion of the cease-fire in Gaza a week and a half ago, Netanyahu was asked about the prospect of renewing the peace process with Abbas.</p>
<p>Netanyahu responded vaguely that prospects of the peace process are better now, in light of regional shifts. With the Egyptian proposal now out in the open, and assuming that this is what Netanyahu was referring to, his remarks were accurate.</p>
<p>Sisi’s offer, even with Abbas’s rejection of it is a gift to Israel. And Israel’s challenge in the weeks and months ahead is to make the most of it.</p>
<p>If the Americans force Abbas to accept Sisi’s offer, Israel and the Palestinian people will benefit.</p>
<p>And if Abbas successfully scuttles it, Sisi’s offer will show that Israel is correct that it cannot satisfy Palestinian demands on its own, and indeed, it demonstrates how unreasonable those demands are.</p>
<p>Sisi’s offer demonstrates that for non-jihadist Sunnis, not only is Israel not the problem in the Middle East, a strong Israel is a prerequisite for solving the region’s troubles. Here is a major Arab leader willing to stand with Israel even if it means discrediting the PLO .</p>
<p>As a consequence, Sisi’s offer is a challenge to the US and Europe.</p>
<p>Sisi’s offer shows Washington and Brussels that to solve the Palestinian conflict with Israel, they need to stand with Israel, even if this means abandoning Abbas.</p>
<p>If they do so, they can take credit for achieving their beloved two-state solution. If they fail to do so, they will signal that their primary goal is not peace, but something far less constructive.</p>
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		<title>How Hamas Helped Morsi Break Out of Prison</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Aug 2013 13:25:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["Hamas communicated with the Bedouins and agreed that they would provide them with ordnance in exchange for assistance in freeing their comrades from Egyptian prisons." ]]></description>
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<p>This is interesting because unlike a lot of the conspiracy theories floating around the region, this <a href="http://israelmatzav.blogspot.com/2013/08/2011-egyptian-revolution-orchestrated.html">seems plausible and grounded in reality</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>It was an event easily overlooked during the pandemonium that engulfed Egypt in the 2011 uprising against Hosni Mubarak and his regime.</p>
<p>Shortly after 2am on January 30, 2011, Mohammed Morsi and 31 other members of the Muslim Brotherhood escaped from a maximum-security prison complex 120 kilometres north of the capital, Cairo.</p>
<p>Besides senior Brotherhood officials, some 40 members of two other prominent regional Islamist groups – Hamas and Lebanon&#8217;s Hizbollah – also escaped.</p>
<p>Once considered a footnote to the cataclysmic events that were then sweeping Egypt, the prison break and its hints of regional Islamist involvement are now set to take centre stage in legal efforts by Egyptian authorities to prevent the jailed Mr Morsi and other senior members of his Islamist-led government from returning to political life. If convicted on charges of espionage, Mr Morsi and his top aides could be sentenced to death.</p>
<p>Hisham Barakat, the public prosecutor in the case, alleged that Mr Morsi secretly colluded with Hamas, the Islamist movement that rules the Gaza Strip, in planning an assault on the prison in 2011.</p>
<p>&#8230;</p>
<p>According to the testimony by Omar Suleiman, the powerful former director of Egypt&#8217;s national intelligence directorate, the Wadi Natroun prison break may have been part of a well-planned operation to liberate jails across the country, carried out by Egyptian Bedouins with the help of Islamists in Egypt and abroad.</p>
<p>Testifying on September 14, 2011, in the trial of Mubarak on charges of complicity in the deaths of protesters during the 2011 uprising, Suleiman said Egypt&#8217;s spy agencies started monitoring communications between members of Hamas and Bedouins in Sinai on January 26, 2011 &#8211; one day after mass protests broke out.</p>
<p>&#8220;Hamas communicated with the Bedouins and agreed that they would provide them with ordnance in exchange for assistance in freeing their comrades from Egyptian prisons,&#8221; said Suleiman, according to a transcript of his court testimony.</p>
<p>The Al Qassam Brigades, the militant wing of Hamas, &#8220;created a diversion so that the border guards would not pursue the smuggled ordnance. Thus the weapons, ammunition and explosives were successfully smuggled and given to the Bedouins,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>With up to 90 Gaza-based members of Hizbollah, Hamas militants then entered Egypt illegally and led the assaults on prisons across the country, said Suleiman, who died in July last year.</p></blockquote>
<p>This would explain the links between Hamas and the outbreak of Sinai violence and Morsi&#8217;s own attempt at crushing the military, while at the same time the military was keeping a tight lid on Hamas smuggling tunnels.</p>
<p>The Egyptian military knew or suspected that Hamas had linked up with Sinai Jihadists to carry out attacks in Egypt for the Brotherhood&#8217;s gain.</p>
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		<title>Islamists Attack Peacekeepers in Sinai</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The headquarters of the Multinational Force and Observers (MFO) in the Sinai was attacked on Friday night by dozens of Bedouin Salafi gunmen, Israel’s Channel 2 News reported. Dozens of gunmen, in some 50 vehicles, surrounded the base and then 60-70 of them burst in, storming into the base amid heavy gunfire.]]></description>
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<blockquote><p>The headquarters of the Multinational Force and Observers (MFO) in the Sinai was attacked on Friday night by dozens of Bedouin Salafi gunmen, Israel’s Channel 2 News reported. Dozens of gunmen, in some 50 vehicles, surrounded the base and then 60-70 of them burst in, storming into the base amid heavy gunfire.</p>
<p>First reports of the attack surfaced a little after 8 p.m. local time. Half-an-hour later, Channel 2 reported that Egyptian troops in 11 armored vehicles had arrived at the base, to try to help to restore order.</p>
<p>The TV report said four members of the MFO, all of them officers, were injured. It said three of them had been evacuated to Israel’s Soroka Medical Center, with at least one of them in serious condition. Three of the men were said to be of Colombian nationality. Earlier reports had suggested several fatalities in the attack.</p>
<p>The attackers were described as Bedouin jihadists, possibly affiliated with Al-Qaeda. First reports said Al-Qaeda flags were seen flying at the base after the attack. The attack was reported to have been motivated by Muslim anger at an anti-Islam film, “Innocence of Muslims,” which has sparked anti-Western protests in many Arab cities in recent days.</p>
<p>The TV report said the gunmen broke through the security perimeter of the base — “the first time anything like this has ever happened,” it said — and brought down two observation towers.</p></blockquote>
<p>Oh <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/gunmen-attack-sinai-headquarters-of-mfo-peacekeeping-force-several-reported-killed/">the usual excuse is it&#8217;s about the movie</a>, but it&#8217;s not.</p>
<p>The real story is that this is helping dismantle any international presence in the Sinai which is part of the Death of Camp David watch that will bring on a war between Israel and the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood regime.</p>
<p>Push out the peacekeepers, occupy the area and bring on the war. That was the game that Gamal Abdel Nasser played. The only difference is that Morsi is using proxies to do his Brotherhood&#8217;s dirty work for him.</p>
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		<title>Israel’s Sinai Dilemmas</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Aug 2012 04:45:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[P. David Hornik]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When fighting terror can mean boosting terror.]]></description>
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<p>On Sunday night, terrorists at the Egyptian-Israeli border <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/ryan-mauro/jihadists-take-aim-at-egyptian-military/">stormed</a> a checkpoint and massacred 16 Egyptian border guards there. They then drove two vehicles toward Israel with the aim of perpetrating a mass-casualty attack against Israeli civilians—thwarted by the combined efforts of the Israeli ground forces and air force.</p>
<p>Yet, according to official statements of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood and of Hamas, the rulers of Gaza, the attack was carried out by—Israel.</p>
<p>Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor <a href="http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=5317">denounced</a> such claims as “nonsense” and added: “Even the person who says this when he looks at himself in the mirror does not believe the nonsense he is uttering.”</p>
<p>There’s evidence that Palmor is right. Immediately after the attack, Hamas sealed off tunnels from Gaza into Sinai—since it’s suspected that small, non-Hamas, Gaza-based terror groups took part in the attack. Hamas, of course, does not really think Israeli operatives somehow got into Gaza, reached Sinai through the tunnels, and massacred Egyptian policemen before trying to ram one or two suicide vehicles full-speed into Israeli border villages.</p>
<p>And as for Mohamed Morsi, Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood president, on Tuesday he visited the site of the attack and said that “those who committed this criminal act of terror are enemies of the Egyptian nation and they will pay dearly…. There is no room for appeasing this treason, this aggression and criminality”—without making any mention of Israel.</p>
<p>Early Wednesday morning Egyptian attack helicopters <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/egyptian-military-fires-missiles-at-suspected-islamist-terrorists-in-sinai/">reportedly</a> fired missiles at suspected Islamic terrorists who had attacked three more checkpoints in northern Sinai, 30 miles from the Gaza-Israel border. The missile fire, apparently a spontaneous response to the attacks, seems to have killed at least 20.</p>
<p>Boaz Bismuth, an astute Israeli commentator, <a href="http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=2366">asks</a> whether Morsi’s new Islamist government will realize that “Israel and Egypt have a mutual interest in maintaining a peaceful border and protecting it from Islamist terrorist organizations that don’t hesitate to kill their Muslim brethren….”</p>
<p>Morsi, says Bismuth,</p>
<blockquote><p>needs to understand that a quiet border means minimizing hostile incidents. Minimizing incidents means more tourism, as opposed to the current situation of more pyramids than tourists. Tourists help bring back foreign investors, who in turn help rehabilitate the economy. All of this is crucial to Egypt, which has 85 million mouths to feed.</p></blockquote>
<p>Yet the question, as Bismuth goes on to acknowledge, is more complicated than that. At present—with Israel’s permission—Egypt has about seven army battalions in Sinai, more than allowed by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt%E2%80%93Israel_Peace_Treaty">1979 Israeli-Egyptian Peace Treaty</a>. So far this force has done next to nothing to clamp down on Sinai terror. Egypt, meanwhile, claims it needs still more troops in Sinai to do the job effectively.</p>
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		<title>Jihadists Take Aim at Egyptian Military</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2012 04:46:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ryan Mauro]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The only obstacle standing in the way of an Islamist takeover of the country.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/sinai-gaza-egypt-attackRTR3692T-639x405.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-139729" title="sinai-gaza-egypt-attackRTR3692T-639x405" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/sinai-gaza-egypt-attackRTR3692T-639x405.gif" alt="" width="375" height="247" /></a>Sixteen Egyptian soldiers are dead after unidentified jihadists carried out a terrorist <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/07/world/middleeast/sinai-attack-a-test-for-israel-egypt-and-gaza.html">attack</a> in the Sinai Peninsula, striking at the only institution standing in the way of an Islamist takeover of Egypt. The assailants were stopped as they entered Israel. The Muslim Brotherhood predictably accused Israeli intelligence of being responsible for the massacre, but all indications point to Al-Qaeda-type jihadists.</p>
<p>The operation began when about 35 terrorists traveling in three vehicles attacked an Egyptian military outpost, killing the 16 soldiers. They then went into Israel with bomb belts strapped to their waists and an armored car carrying about half a ton of explosives. The Israelis, who <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Article.aspx?id=280295">received</a> a tip devoid of any actionable details over the weekend, launched three strikes, destroying the vehicle and six or seven terrorists. The rest escaped. It is thought that the terrorists wanted to kidnap an Israeli soldier.</p>
<p>The Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas condemned the attacks, with Egyptian President Morsi <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/07/world/middleeast/sinai-attack-a-test-for-israel-egypt-and-gaza.html">declaring</a> three days of mourning. Palestinians living in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip are paying a heavy price. The Israelis were forced to close the only access route to Gaza, the Egyptians had to close the Rafah crossing point and Hamas closed down the underground tunnels used for smuggling.</p>
<p>Egyptian officials <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/07/world/middleeast/sinai-attack-a-test-for-israel-egypt-and-gaza.html">think</a> the terrorists worked with colleagues in the Gaza Strip, though Hamas is not believed to have had a hand in these attacks. In June, an Israeli soldier was killed by terrorists operating in the Sinai. A group calling themselves “Magles Shoura al-Mujahaddin” <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/28/us-egypt-israel-jihad-idUSBRE86R0P520120728">said</a> the attack was in honor of Ayman al-Zawahiri, the chief of Al-Qaeda.</p>
<p>Sunday’s attack is being compared to <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2011/ryan-mauro/for-israel-no-such-thing-as-a-true-ceasefire/">one that took place on August 18</a> that killed eight Israelis. The U.S. <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/aug/22/al-qaeda-linked-to-israeli-bus-ambush/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS">believes</a> Al-Qaeda in the Sinai Peninsula carried it out with help from the Popular Resistance Committees based in Gaza and Jaish al-Islam, another Al-Qaeda affiliate. Al-Qaeda in the Sinai Peninsula declared its four goals after the attack took place: To institute Sharia Law in the Sinai Peninsula, force an end to the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty, cause Egypt to wage war on Israel and to end the unfair treatment of the Bedouins.</p>
<p>If Al-Qaeda is responsible, the timing is embarrassing for Hamas. On Thursday, Hamas <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/03/us-palestinians-hamas-alqaeda-idUSBRE8720T120120803">released</a> Abu al-Waleed al-Maqdissi after imprisoning him for 17 months. He was the leader of Tawhid and Jihad, an Al-Qaeda affiliate. He first joined Al-Qaeda in Iraq in 2003.</p>
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		<title>Israel&#8217;s Energy Future</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 04:02:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Martin Beranek]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just how well situated is the Jewish State compared to its aggressive neighbors?]]></description>
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<p>Energy has always been the weak link in Israel’s thriving economy. Decades of digging and drilling yielded practically no hydrocarbons at all. Israel was forced to spend 5% of its GDP buying fuel from suppliers that did not have its interests at heart, and were often unreliable. At one point for instance, Israel purchased 40% of its natural gas from Egypt. But the pipeline across the Sinai <a href="http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Energy-Resources/2011/11/28/Gas-pipeline-from-Egypt-bombed/UPI-96601322489343/">has been bombed so many times</a> there was often not enough time between explosions to get the gas flowing again. Post-Mubarak Egypt desperately needs the money to replace lost tourism revenue, but hatred of Israel trumps all.</p>
<p>The first brightening of this bleak picture came in 1998, when offshore drilling in Israel’s Mediterranean waters got under way. In 2000, a consortium led by Noble Energy of Houston struck commercial quantities of natural gas off the southern coast, west of Ashdod. By 2004, the Mari B field was in full production, with reserves of nearly 1 trillion cubic feet of gas. This remains the only currently producing offshore well in Israel.</p>
<p>But Noble Energy was convinced there must be bigger reserves waiting in deeper waters, and in 2009, diligent exploration paid off <a href="http://www.nobleenergyinc.com/Operations/International/Eastern-Mediterranean-128.html">in a big way</a>. The Tamar field, with 9 trillion cubic feet of gas, was the biggest offshore gas field found anywhere in the world that year. And the next year, Noble Energy struck it even richer with the 16 trillion cubic foot Leviathan field, further west of Haifa. That was the biggest offshore find of the decade. Together, these discoveries opened up entirely new possibilities. The Tamar field, with enough gas to supply all of Israel’s needs for decades, offered energy security, and the Leviathan field offered energy for export and billions of dollars a year in potential revenues.</p>
<p>Gas is scheduled to start flowing from Tamar in 2013 and from Leviathan in 2016. With the same consortium operating Mari B and Tamar and Leviathan, the Israeli government was very concerned about giving one group of companies a monopoly over its offshore gas. This monopoly has now been broken by other companies who’ve found rich pickings in the sea off central Israel. A three-dimensional seismographic survey of the <a href="http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000659317">Myra and Sarah</a> fields northwest of Netanya and southeast of Leviathan has revealed 6.5 trillion cubic feet of gas waiting to be developed by a consortium led by the Israel Land Development Company.</p>
<p>Modiin Energy has a controlling interest in the <a href="http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000680588">Gabriella field</a> in shallow water not far west of Tel Aviv, with an estimated 3.56 trillion cubic feet of gas, and the <a href="http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000703153&amp;fid=1725">Yam Hadera field</a> west of Hadera, with an estimated 1.4 trillion cubic feet.</p>
<p>Adira Energy, a Canadian company, is developing the <a href="http://adiraenergy.com/projects/offshore/yitzhak/">Yitzhak field</a> southwest of Netanya, with an estimated 989 billion cubic feet. And ATP Oil &amp; Gas of Houston has partnered with Isramco Negev to develop the <a href="http://www.pennenergy.com/index/petroleum/display/4783762373/articles/pennenergy/petroleum/offshore/2011/06/atp-acquires_three.html">Shimshon field</a>, with a best estimate of 2.3 trillion cubic feet.</p>
<p>Of course, Nobel Energy hasn’t rested on its laurels after Leviathan. It has identified <a href="http://www.ogj.com/articles/2011/11/noble-sees-giant-east-mediterranean-oil-gas-potential.html">12 more prospects</a> with 20 trillion cubic feet of potential gas in the territory covered by its licenses. And all of the fields mentioned have substantial quantities of oil waiting to be developed as well. The best estimate for the Gabriella field alone is 277 million barrels of oil.</p>
<p>Getting the most out of all these discoveries will take not just technical expertise and money, but strategic thinking and sound diplomacy as well. And that is what Israel has been practicing, with Greece and Cyprus in particular.</p>
<p>Israel has carefully cultivated its relations with Greece since early in 2010. Progress began with an unlikely but warm personal relationship between Prime Ministers Netanyahu and Papandreou. It intensified after Turkish-Israeli relations fell into a deep-freeze following the Mavi Marmara incident, and after the scope of the Leviathan discovery became clear. Face-to-face meetings between officials in Athens and Jerusalem, business and tourism delegations, sharing of intelligence, and joint exercises between the Israeli and Greek air forces <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/netanyahu-s-big-fat-greek-wedding-1.370794">all bore fruit</a> when the Greek Coast Guard brought the 2011 version of the Gaza flotilla to a complete halt, and Israel tirelessly lobbied the EU to extend a helping hand to Greece in the face of its financial crisis.</p>
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