The Meaning of the Egypt-Israel Cross-Border Attack
● The Brotherhood will not even condemn al-Qaida. For example, the new government could have taken a different approach: These extremists are enemies of the Egyptian people because they endanger the state’s stability and economic success. It won’t even do that. So no matter how many cross-border attacks are staged from Egypt and Israel, Egypt will just deny responsibility and blame Israel. What likelihood is there that they will try to vigorously block them?
● Israel has now gotten to the point where it can protect itself from cross-border attacks. We are dealing here with open country where it is hard to sneak up on the border and well-distributed Israeli defense forces that can get to any point on the frontier very quickly.
So in strategic terms, such attacks are not a huge threat but on geopolitical terms the danger is rising steadily.
The U.S. government response is to offer to help train and assist Egypt’s army and government. But the government is not part of the solution but rather part of the problem.
Some Salafist demonstrators chased President al-Mursi away from the Egyptian soldiers’ funeral. In effect, they were saying: These people were not heroes, they were getting in the way of the jihad against Israel. The implication is: you better get out of the way, too. But other demonstrators took the army’s side and blamed the Brotherhood for getting Egypt into unnecessary violence. The Egyptian air force hit jihadist camps, so aren’t they like the Mubarak-era army protecting Israel or are they protecting Egyptian national interests? That’s the point.
‘Egypt indicated it would crack down from its side after mostly ignoring the underground passages for years.’
Under Mubarak, Egypt ignored all the Iranian missiles, Islamic terrorists and weapons being smuggled into Gaza for years and Israel did nothing but target a few tunnels and empty fields only when the Israeli public demanded that the loser’s Olmert, Barak, Netanyahu do something.
It is evident that the losers in Jerusalem do not have a green light from their Plantation Masters in Washington to do anything that might upset the status quo of the rising caliphate in Israel’s front yard.
Restrained Israel,snared by a false peace of the false god they serve,with both hands tied and only permitted to do limited operations that never end the present untenable situation.
Amos 3:7
There is coming an all out war in the Middle East as the neighboring Arab nations will come against Israel with a sudden missile attack starting from the north with Hezbollah, Lebanon, and Syria. Other Arab nations will join. Israel will be hit from all sides at once and there will be deaths and partial destruction of settlements, smaller cities to the north, and some damage to Tel Aviv and Jerusalem as well. Israel will respond with great force, and limited nuclear weapons will release devastation upon the neighboring countries, particularly Lebanon, Damascus, which will be destroyed completely, and the rest of Syria as well as military strikes into Iran, Gaza, and even northern Egypt/Sinai region.
http://www.mauricesklar.com/Teachings/Prophecy/prophecy.html
This day Egyptian forces moved heavy equipment to seal off the tunnels they already knew about. They also closed crossing points. These are easy things to do. They will try to pressure Hamas to finish the job inside Gaza.
Hamas will try to keep its little fiefdom so they will do lots of things we will never read about to regain operational control. They have very big problems now. I think they have no real opposition they cannot deal with for control of Gaza locally.
This is more important than many will admit openly, and too many in our current “administration” are too murky-minded to see it thus:
“The U.S. government response is to offer to help train and assist Egypt’s army and government. But the government is not part of the solution but rather part of the problem.”
The Egyptian-”brotherhood” is a literal thing in that both factions of Government and Army, simply by being Muslim they must in time turn on us Americans. After, of course, pocketing billions of US Dollars. A Muslim Army cannot operate separately from a Muslim government…one or the other will be excoriated as being “apostate”, and at the very minimum as being on the wrong side of their imams/mullahs.
hence I keep advocating isolation and quarantine of the Muslim portions of Central/West Asia, and let the internal and cross-border sectarian tensions slowly increase due to their isolation and forced unnatural co-dependence. They’re simply unable to co-exist in a confined area, as feral cats-in-a-box.
We Americans can then stand of and stand alert to intervene with drones and off-shore naval ops as needed to back up Israel.
Why haven’t we Americans learned after a bloody decade in that vast absorbent sponge of Asia that we simply don’t have the required resources to man the whole continental mass of Muslim/Islam.
Quarantine, sure. Also, overwhelming response to outrages.
Barry – You wrote: “That a whole platoon size unit of terrorists — one of the largest such forces every assembled for such an attack — could plan, organize, and come together without warning for the Egyptian army speaks poorly for its intelligence capability.” It’s worse than that. Israel warmed them of a possible attack, and they blew it off. As I once mentioned to you, I think that in my lifetime, Israel will have to retake the Sinai because peace with Egypt looks to have an expiration date on it.
As always: Refuah Shlemah
If the Egyptian army is that incompetent, Israel should be able to retake the Sinai at the cost of a sprained ankle and a few flat tires. So what are you waiting for?
Thanks, Prof Rubin for yet another informative column. A couple of commentators on Israeli t.v. have said that the Egyptian people are not buying the story that the Mossad is behind this. I sure hope so, but certainly some must be blaming Israel for the deaths of 17 Egyptian soldiers. It should be interesting to see whether Salafis and MB will fight each other or unite.
The Middle East is a Gordian knot of hatred and unending revenge. When all side acquire nuclear weapons nothing will change but the body count.
there is also the possibility that Egypt has a grand design of short term sacrifice as part of a bigger design to create new facts on the ground viz., the creeping militarization of Sinai with American “understanding”.
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Very interesting information! Perfect just what I was looking for!