Posted on 02/12/2011 5:53:25 PM PST by Tigen
Israelis urged to return home for fear that peninsula will become launching pad for terror attacks as police abandon posts, facing increasing violence.
Concern is mounting in Israel over reports that the Egyptian police force has abandoned the Sinai Peninsula in face of growing Beduin violence, and that the territory will turn into a breeding ground for global jihad.
According to information that has arrived in Israel, Egyptian police authorities have abandoned dozens of police stations throughout the peninsula after they were attacked by Beduin armed with missiles and assault rifles.
This concern was behind Israel’s decision two weeks ago to allow the deployment of 800 Egyptian soldiers in Sharm e-Sheikh and Rafah.
Additional requests since then have been rejected.
In recent years, the Sinai hasturned into a launching pad for attacks against Israel, including by Hamas, which several months ago launched Katyusha rockets into Eilat from the Egyptian territory.
The Egyptian military has for years encountered difficulty in controlling the Beduin population, which does not hold allegiance to the Egyptian government in Cairo.
“The Sinai is already known as a lawless land,” a senior defense official said over the weekend. “There is real concern that if the Egyptians don’t get the Sinai back under their control, it could develop into a major threat to Israel.”
Israel, which has urged all its citizens to leave the Sinai immediately, is particularly concerned about the possibility that Hamas will take hold of parts of the peninsula and use it to launch attacks into Israel via the 240-kilometer long Israeli- Egyptian border, with an emphasis on Eilat.
There is also concern that without a real Egyptian security presence in the Sinai, Hamas will be able to increase the amount and quality of weaponry and explosives it smuggles into the Gaza Strip via Egypt.
Israel has shared these concerns with its allies, as well as on a personal level between Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen.
Gabi Ashkenazi and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Michael Mullen.
I thought the Bedouin hated the Arabs.
The danger - that Sinai become’s Israel’s new “southern Lebanon” amid internal political uncertainty in Egypt.
Israel should give Egypt about 60 days to regain control of the Sanai. If they don’t, Israel should nuke Iran, Syria, Yemen and Pakistan.
Beduins are Arabs - of the indigenous desert tribes. In their culture, they tend to look down upon villagers and city Arabs as lesser beings. But this is just a cultural prejudice, and usually not taken seriously.
However, there is a recent and bitter illfeeling between the Beduin of the Sinai and the Egyptian police. They say the police have been brutal to them. The police say that the Beduin are involved in people smuggling and illegal trade over the Israeli border.
Surely the question is - who is supplying the Beduin with these weapons?
There is something strange going on.
Under the agreement signed at the beginning that governed the Multinational Force and Observers, I believe that there was always to be one batallion of American troops in the Sinai. They were usually stationed just north of Sharm al-Sheikh. A second batallion of foreign troops was to be stationed at the MFO base south of El Arish. I wonder if this has changed?
Egypt has just sent another 900 troops. It is important to remember this is a demilitarized zone under their Treaty, However, Israel welcomes the Egyptians in this instance.
They entered with Israel’s blessing.
Yes.
Un mentioned is the number of Bedu. They are very limited in numbers
Israel no longer has troops trained in desert warefare; they were disbanded in 79. Perhaps it will be Israeli UAVs warmed up, but no troops.
Location of one of the mountains called Sinai. The most likely real hill aka mountain, is located in the heart of a Saudi military zone. No access permitted, but is apparently surounded with sites dated to the time of Mosses, unlike the one on the Sinai Pen.
It isn’t that civilization has passed them by or that racists or Zionists have impoverished them, but that they completely reject civilization and prefer destruction, mayhem and death.
Their god calls for it.
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Their “god” calls for bringing the entire human race to Paradise, by whatewver means necessary, as soon as possible.
The Bedouin were there before there was an Egypt.
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The Bedouin were there before there was a modern Egypt.
The police say that the Beduin are involved in people smuggling and illegal trade over the Israeli border.
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So do the Israelis and Hamas.
Surely the question is - who is supplying the Beduin with these weapons?
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Uhhumm... let’s see... oh perhaps Iran, but that’s just a wild guess...
They have a nomadic lifestyle and carry the weapons. That’s typical in these third world gun control paradises, everyone goes around armed anyway, at least when they’re away from urban areas. :’)
Nothing to worry about...They are still playing Golf in Dubai.
Thanks for the link. I checked it out, and found it very interesting.
Many Turkish Muslims believe that the Mt. Sinai referred to in the Old Testament is indeed in Saudi Arabia.
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