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‘Egypt is Preparing for War with Israel’
INN ^ | 4/6/2015, 12:07 PM | Ari Yashar

Posted on 04/06/2015 3:31:42 PM PDT by Olog-hai

Noha Hashad (51), an Egyptian nuclear scientist who fled the Nile state in 2011 after her support of Israel made her a target for torture over many long years, has exposed troubling insights regarding Egypt’s military buildup in the Sinai Peninsula, as it fights terrorist organizations there.

Speaking to Israel Hayom’s Emily Amrousi from her new home in Haifa, Hashad was asked to give her take about Egypt’s actions in Sinai, where the Egyptian army has been fighting radical groups such as Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis, a group that recently swore allegiance to Islamic State (ISIS).

“That’s all for show,” appraised Hashad. “In the race for the presidency, Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis supported (President Abdel Fattah) al-Sisi, who isn’t really fighting them.”

The nuclear scientist warned, “Egypt is preparing for war with Israel. It armed and trained Hamas in Gaza. Whoever knows Arabic can hear the heads of Egyptian military intelligence talk about wide canals that open up between Israel and Egypt that will be used at the appropriate time.”

The warning echoes appraisals by Col. (res.) Dr. Shaul Shay, former deputy head of the Israel National Security Council, who wrote in Israel Defense last December that the “Badr 2014” military maneuver, its largest in decades, was meant to prepare for “a potential conflict with Israel.” …

(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...


TOPICS: Egypt; Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
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To: Olog-hai

Egypt is basically a one bomb country. Knock out the Aswan Dam and you flood all of the big population centers along the Nile. Add radioactivity if you please...because even without a nuke the dam is easily destroyed. You kill millions with one strike, and effectively starve most of the rest. Al-Sisi is not insane like the Moslem crazies.


41 posted on 04/06/2015 7:09:31 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: Olog-hai

I think Israel should keep it eyes open. There’s always the outside chance Egypt would try something. Israel would make them pay heavily.


42 posted on 04/06/2015 7:09:39 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (The question is Jeb Bush. The answer is NO!)
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To: GraceG
This is either Taqiyya by the pro-muslim brother hood supporters

Let's see now....If a moslem says a bunch of words in English...are any of them true?

43 posted on 04/06/2015 7:25:06 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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To: Olog-hai

So the Israelis nuke the Aswan dam.

Game over.


44 posted on 04/06/2015 7:31:56 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Ancesthntr

You beat me to it.


45 posted on 04/06/2015 7:50:49 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Olog-hai

Obama and Kerry gave the green light to ME thugs to attack Israel... that was one of the messages of the negotiations. Why should Arabs wait for an Iranian nuke when they know Obama...


46 posted on 04/06/2015 8:12:11 PM PDT by GOPJ (DHS has the same budget as the USMC and has TWICE their headcount - - freeper gaijin)
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To: Olog-hai

Times have changed


47 posted on 04/06/2015 9:31:40 PM PDT by Pirate Ragnar (Libs put feelings first and thought second.)
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To: Pirate Ragnar

Sounds like a statement based more on faith than on evidence. Times don’t change that quickly.


48 posted on 04/06/2015 9:56:32 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: StoneWall Brigade

I think we can chalk this one up as “rumours of wars” can’t we?


49 posted on 04/07/2015 5:00:58 AM PDT by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus)
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To: CynicalBear

Agreed


50 posted on 04/07/2015 7:46:21 AM PDT by StoneWall Brigade (And I will send fire on Magog- Ezkiel 39:6)
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To: Olog-hai

Sisi has been very accomodating toward Israel, and has been a real enemy of Hamas. This headline and article do not jive with reality and are to be vetted before being believed. It might be disinformation.


51 posted on 04/07/2015 7:48:51 AM PDT by winner3000
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To: winner3000

Why would Sisi have pushed for a united Arab armed force, then? That’s something that Nasser could only have dreamed of. Sounds like “beneficial crisis” to me.


52 posted on 04/07/2015 7:53:15 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

(Why would Sisi have pushed for a united Arab armed force, then? That’s something that Nasser could only have dreamed of. Sounds like “beneficial crisis” to me.)

Why go after a conspiracy theory instead of what’s already happening on the ground? Sunnis are already fighting Iran-supported Shia in Yemen. That’s what the joint force is supposed to do. Now that Iran is getting the green light from Obama to be a nuclear power, the Sunnis are scared shitless, and are making noise about allying themselves WITH Israel against Iran. This is not idle chatter as words of support to Israel usually are detrimental to any leader who utters them in the Arab world!


53 posted on 04/07/2015 7:58:43 AM PDT by winner3000
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To: winner3000

That’s the same kind of reasoning that saw Saddam Hussein as a friend of the USA.

The big crowd in Tahrir Square in 2011, and what they were chanting, is no conspiracy theory. There will be no alliance with Israel when the opportunity of invading Israel as a bonus prize presents itself during a conflict with Iran.


54 posted on 04/07/2015 8:01:02 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

I think Sisi is the most courageous Arab leader since Anwar al Sadat, and the most tolerant one.

http://www.wnd.com/2015/01/islams-reaction-to-al-sisi-speech/


55 posted on 04/07/2015 8:01:10 AM PDT by winner3000
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To: winner3000

Morsi wouldn’t have picked him if he had an inkling that Sisi was truly like that. Islamic credentials can’t be faked. Sisi has not changed the Egyptian constitution, which is thoroughly Islamic still and calls for Arab unity.


56 posted on 04/07/2015 8:03:06 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

It’s hard for me to buy this. Egypt isn’t what you’d call stable. Inviting the Jews to invade, and possibly, wipe them out is, well . . .

Another poster here rightfully points out that Israel is one of the best, most effective, and cost-free military bulwark against Iran, and Russia for that matter.

They recently tried to cede their own land in order to finally settle the Palestinian question once and for all. They offered a permanent home for Palestinians, in exchange for them dropping the matter of destroying the Jewish race from their charter. That was really the only stipulation.

They refused.

I think everybody in the region is preparing for war, and anyone sharing a border with the Russians are too.

Thanks Obola!


57 posted on 04/07/2015 8:11:08 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: Olog-hai

(Morsi wouldn’t have picked him if he had an inkling that Sisi was truly like that.) Islamic credentials can’t be faked. Sisi has not changed the Egyptian constitution, which is thoroughly Islamic still and calls for Arab unity.)

By now there is nothing more obvious than the fact that Morsi made a monumental mistake picking Sisi who ended up leading a coup against him, jailed him and other Muslim Brotherhood leaders, and made the Muslim Brotherhood illegal!

And I never said that just because their leader sounds conciliatory toward Israel, that suddenly Egyptians forgot a lifetime worth of brainwashing and are now Israel’s best friends! Hence that argument about not changing the Constitution isn’t a fair one. Knowing where regular Egyptians are (especially after the Morsi regime fell after the Brotherhood went too far by changing the Constitution) mentally, it is premature for Sisi to pick that battle. Let’s hope he is elected President. You know Obama will do his best to have him defeated, just like he tried with Netanyahu.


58 posted on 04/07/2015 9:09:49 AM PDT by winner3000
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To: Olog-hai; aposiopetic; beebuster2000; GraceG; Crazieman; ckilmer; Slings and Arrows; hosepipe; ...
There's just one risk for Israel in Egypt -- and that is the overthrow of al-Sisi, or a civil war a la Syria.

That said, all countries have contingency plans if they're smart; since Israel has successfully (and justifiably) expelled Egypt from the Sinai twice in 50 years, it only makes sense that the Egyptian army practices some kind of scenario.

As ckilmer saz above, the source has potential motives for opposing al-Sisi (fled from his rule, not from the MB's), and more to the point, wouldn't be in a position to know what the upper echelons discuss. As Ancesthntr said, a public statement like this could have resulted from extortion.

Despite all that, Israel must never all into the complacency it has prior to the 1973 war, when there was ample intel indicating imminent war, and the Meir gov't did nothing to prepare.

As Bob434 mentioned, Israel has started to develop offshore gas (and some oil resources), and is part of the route between Jordan and Egypt -- that gas pipeline was sabotaged by the Sinai jihadists.

More than one mentioned the threat to shipping (unless that was in another topic, blush), and that means through the Suez Canal; losing that traffic would be a major drag to Egypt's economy. Israel has flown sorties to Sudan and Somalia in recent years, and in 2015 at least one to Libya. Egypt had to be consulted so it could look the other way.

The current joint operation in Yemen differs from Nasser's Yemen involvement in that Nasser and the House of Saud were the adversaries at that time. Morocco is participating, as are the former allies of Iran in Qatar, and Bahrain has a large (bootleg) Shiite population.

As x asked, "what are wide canals"? The only "wide canals" Egypt has been building in the Sinai consist of a twenty-year-long project to irrigate the Med and Red coasts with Nile water, and the current project of digging a deep water barrier to block Gaza smuggling.

59 posted on 04/07/2015 9:48:16 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW!)
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To: RinaseaofDs

The “Palestinians” have been offered a “permanent home” for the past sixty years. That is not what they want. The overarching goal for the region is “Arab unity”, which is also in the Egyptian constitution—and no State of Israel.


60 posted on 04/07/2015 12:03:58 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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