Caroline Glick on Thursday's terror attacks (Israel)

Israel Matzav ^ | 8/19/11 | Caroline Glick

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Here's Carline Glick writing about Thursday's terror attacks along the Egyptian border north of Eilat.

Since the Palestinian terror war began in 2000, then-Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak did almost nothing to prevent massive arms smuggling by Palestinian terror groups through Sinai. The Palestinians - from Hamas, Fatah and Islamic Jihad - were assisted by Sinai Beduin as well as by the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood and Hezbollah. Mubarak also did next to nothing to prevent human and drug trafficking from Sinai into Israel and Gaza.

Mubarak did, however, protect the Egyptian regime's control over Sinai by among other things sealing the official land border from Egypt to Gaza at Rafah, defending Egyptian police stations and other security installations and vital infrastructure such as the gas pipeline from attack. Forces from his Interior Ministry kept a firm grip on the Beduin tribes.

As bad and increasingly complex as the security situation was becoming in Sinai under Mubarak, it has drastically deteriorated since he was overthrown in February. Actually, the Egyptian government arguably lost control over Sinai while Mubarak was being overthrown, and until last weekend made no attempt to reassert its sovereign control over the area.

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Passengers in one of the civilian cars attacked by gunmen in the first stage of the operation told the media that their attackers were wearing Egyptian army uniforms.

Obama is responsible for creating this monster and all the suffering that comes of it.

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Arab Spring!

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Go to the original article and then look at the comments going to the bottom and starting with one. The thread is quickly hijacked by anti Israeli posters. Glick is hated by the Israeli left as well as the Islamos and leftists in general so it is impossible to pinpoint the origins of these people. Indeed many of their rants could come from Paulistas or Lew Rockwell.com carpet chewers. What is disturbing is not that some people are critical of certain Israeli policies or the closeness of the US-Israeli relationship. The tenor of these posts is that Israel is an irredeemably evil nation and only the end of the Jewish State will bring a just solution to the Middle East tensions. This sort of hate filled rage is one step short of eliminationism. That would seem to be the next stop, the legitimization of eliminationism for ‘Zionist Jews’.