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		<title>Sisi Is Not Mubarak</title>
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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>Obama to the Rescue – of Hamas</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2014 04:56:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. pushes for an immediate ceasefire -- before Israel finishes its mission. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/palestinian-rockets-rain-down-on-israel-from-gaza.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-236893" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/palestinian-rockets-rain-down-on-israel-from-gaza-444x350.jpg" alt="palestinian-rockets-rain-down-on-israel-from-gaza" width="255" height="201" /></a>Originally published by the <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Obama-to-the-rescue-of-Hamas-368508">Jerusalem Post</a>. </em></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Operation Protective Edge is now two weeks old. Since the ground offensive began Thursday night, we have begun to get a better picture of just how dangerous Hamas has become in the nine years since Israel withdrew from the Gaza Strip. And what we have learned is that the time has come to take care of this problem. It cannot be allowed to fester or grow anymore.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">We have known for years that tunnels were a central component of Hamas’s logistical infrastructure.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">What began as the primary means of smuggling weapons, trainers and other war material from Hamas’s sponsors abroad developed rapidly into a strategic tool of offensive warfare against Israel.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">As we have seen from the heavily armed Hamas commando squads that have infiltrated into Israel from tunnels since the start of the current round of warfare, the first goal of these offensive tunnels is to deploy terrorists into Israel to massacre Israelis.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">But the tunnels facilitate other terror missions as well.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Israel has found tunnels with shafts rigged with bombs located directly under Israeli kindergartens.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">If the bombs had gone off, the buildings above would have been destroyed, taking the children down with them.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Other exposed shafts showed Hamas’s continued intense interest in hostage taking. In 2006 the terrorists who kidnapped Cpl. Gilad Schalit entered Israel and returned to Gaza through such a tunnel.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Today the presence of sedatives and multiple sets of handcuffs for neutralizing hostages found in tunnel after tunnel indicate that Hamas intends to abduct several Israelis at once and spirit them back to Gaza.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In an interview with Channel 2 Monday evening, Minister Naftali Bennett spoke of a mother at Kibbutz Netiv Ha’asara who told him that her children wake her in the middle of the night and tell her that they hear digging beneath their beds.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">As Bennett said, this state of affairs simply cannot continue. People cannot live in fear that there are terrorists burrowing beneath their homes, digging tunnels to murder or kidnap them.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">These tunnels must be found and destroyed not merely because they constitute a physical danger to thousands of Israelis. They must be located and destroyed, and Hamas’s capacity to rebuild them must be eliminated because the very idea that they exist makes a normal life impossible for those immediately threatened.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Hamas’s tunnels are also the key component of their command and control infrastructure inside Gaza.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Hamas’s political and military commanders are hiding in them. The reinforced bunkers and tunnel complexes enable Hamas’s senior leadership to move with relative freedom and continue planning and ordering attacks.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The sophistication of the tunnels and the malign intentions of Hamas are not in the least surprising.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">But Hamas’s rapid advances in both tunnel and missile technology are deeply worrisome. At a minimum, they indicate that if it is allowed to end the current round of fighting as a coherent, relatively well-armed terrorist army, Hamas will be able to rapidly rebuild and expand its capabilities.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">As a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas is not a stand-alone terror group. It is part of a much larger web of Islamic jihadist terror groups including al-Qaida and its affiliates as well as the Shi’ite Hezbollah. Like Hamas, all of these threaten several major Sunni Arab states.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Due to their recognition of the threat Hamas and its allies pose to the survivability of their regimes, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have taken the unprecedented step of supporting Israel’s efforts to defeat Hamas.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">They understand that a decisive Israeli blow against Hamas in Gaza will directly benefit them. Not only will Hamas be weakened, but its state sponsors and terrorist comrades will be weakened as well.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Presently, Hamas’s most outspoken state sponsors are Qatar and Turkey.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">As Israel’s Calcalist newspaper reported earlier this week, Qatar is Hamas’s biggest and most important financier, a role it plays as well for ISIS, al Nusra, the Muslim Brotherhood and various jihadist groups in Libya.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Turkey for its part is aligned with the Muslim Brotherhood.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Like Qatar, Turkey has also been a major supporter of ISIS and al Nusra, as well as Hamas. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s slander against Israel has grown so hysterical in recent weeks that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, who has been trying to downplay Turkey’s animosity, called him out on his open anti-Semitism.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">By Tuesday morning, IDF forces in Gaza had destroyed 23 tunnels. The number of additional tunnels is still unknown.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">While Israel had killed 183 terrorists, it appeared that most of the terrorists killed were in the low to middle ranks of Hamas’s leadership hierarchy.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Hamas’s senior commanders, as well as its political leadership have hunkered down in hidden tunnel complexes.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In other words, Israel is making good progress.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">But it hasn’t completed its missions. It needs several more days of hard fighting.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Recognizing this, Israel’s newfound Muslim allies have not been pushing for a cease-fire.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In contrast, the Obama administration is insisting on concluding a cease-fire immediately.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">As Israel has uncovered the scope of Hamas’s infrastructure of murder and terror, the US has acted with the UN, Turkey and Qatar to pressure Israel (and Egypt) to agree to a cease-fire and so end IDF operations against Hamas before the mission is completed.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">To advance this goal, US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Cairo on Monday night with an aggressive plan to force on Israel a cease-fire Hamas and its state sponsors will accept.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">As former ambassador to the US Michael Oren told the media, it is clear that neither Israel nor Egypt invited Kerry to come over. Their avoidance of Kerry signals clearly that the US’s two most important allies in the Middle East do not trust US President Barack Obama’s intentions.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">And their distrust is entirely reasonable.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The State Department has openly applauded Turkey and Qatar for their involvement in attempts to achieve a cease-fire. Last week Israeli officials alleged that the US was responsible for Hamas’s rejection of the Egyptian cease-fire proposal. By attempting to coerce Egypt to accept Qatar and Turkey as its partners in mediation, Obama signaled to Hamas’s leaders that they should hold out for a better deal.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Due to Turkey’s membership in NATO and the glamour of the Qatari royal family, many Westerners find it hard to believe that they are major sponsors of terrorism. But it is true. Turkey and Qatar are playing a double game.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">While sending his ambassador to Brussels for NATO meetings, Erdogan has been transforming Turkey from an open, pro-Western society allied with Israel into a closed, anti-Semitic and anti-American society that sponsors Hamas, ISIL, al Nusra and other terrorists groups.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">As for Qatar, the tiny natural gas superpower presents itself to Americans as their greatest ally in the Muslim world. The emirate gives hundreds of millions of dollars to US universities to open campuses in Doha and pretends it is a progressive, open society, replete with debating societies.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Qatar hosts three major US military bases on its territory. And it is becoming one of the most important clients for US military contractors. Earlier this year Qatar signed an $11.4 billion dollar arms agreement with the US.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">At the same time, according to the Calacalist report, Qatar is the major bankroller of ISIS and al Nusra in Syria and Iraq. It gives $50 million a month to jihadists in Libya. It gives Hamas $100m. in annual aid. And in the past two years Doha has provided Hamas with an additional $620m. dollars, including $250m. it transferred to Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal’s personal bank account, and $350m. in military aid to Hamas, transferred after the Egyptian military forced the Muslim Brotherhood government from power last July.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Add to that the $100m. per year that Qatar pours into Al Jazeera’s satellite network – which has dedicated itself to undermining pro-Western Arab regimes while popularizing the likes of al-Qaida and Hamas, and Qatar is the largest financier of international jihad in the world.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Rather than notice that Qatar and Turkey are playing a double game, and treat them with suspicion, the Obama administration has embraced them.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Chances that Kerry will secure a cease-fire in the near future are small. In all likelihood, the government will be able to buy the time necessary to complete the mission in whole or large part. But the fact that the US has chosen at this juncture in the operation – with Israel enjoying unprecedented support from the most important Sunni states in the region – to side with Hamas and its state sponsors in their demand for an immediate cease-fire speaks volumes about the transformation of US foreign policy under Obama’s leadership.</span></p>
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		<title>Iran Shielding Its Nuclear Efforts in Maze of Tunnels &#8211; NYTimes.com</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 06:25:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last September, when Iran’s uranium enrichment plant buried inside a mountain near the holy city of Qum was revealed, the episode cast light on a wider pattern: Over the past decade, Iran has quietly hidden an increasingly large part of its atomic complex in networks of tunnels and bunkers across the country. via Iran Shielding [&#8230;]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Last September, when Iran’s uranium enrichment plant buried inside a mountain near the holy city of Qum was revealed, the episode cast light on a wider pattern: Over the past decade, Iran has quietly hidden an increasingly large part of its atomic complex in networks of tunnels and bunkers across the country.</p>
<p>via <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/06/world/middleeast/06sanctions.html?hp">Iran Shielding Its Nuclear Efforts in Maze of Tunnels &#8211; NYTimes.com</a>.</p>
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