My Right Word..
06 April '12..
As reported, yesterday
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu Thursday vowed to strike at those who attack Israel and said the Jewish state can never stop fighting terrorism...Netanyahu said Israel must constantly fight against those who perpetrate and plan terrorism." Israel must always fight terrorism, he continued, "It will not stop if we do not fight it." Sinai, he continued, has become a terrorism zone, something he said Israel is "dealing with." The security fence being built along the southern border will not stop missiles, but a solution for that too will be found, he said.
Last February, at the book launch of a book I edited along with the late Harry Hurwitz, Caroline Glick was one of the more critical speakers and among other things, said
Another problem with the deal that Israel made with Sadat the dictator is demonstrated by the current unrest in the Sinai...The last thing on Israel's mind in 1978 was the Bedouin tribes in the Sinai. Back then Sinai's Bedouin were pro-Israel and bitterly disappointed when Israel withdrew. But a lot has changed since then.
Over the past 20 years or so, the power of Egypt's central authority in its hinterlands has weakened. The strength of the Bedouin has grown. And over the past decade or so, the Bedouin of Sinai, like the Bedouin from Saudi Arabia to Jordan to Israel have become aligned with the Muslim Brotherhood and its al Qaida and Hamas spinoffs.
The Bedouin attacks on Egyptian police and border guard installations in al Arish and Suez over the past three weeks are an indication that the fear of a strong state, which was so central to Israel's thinking in during the peace process with Egypt, is no longer Israel's most urgent concern. Transnational jihadists in the Sinai are much more immediately threatening than the Egyptian military is. But the peace treaty - signed with a military dictator -- provides neither Israel nor Egypt with tools to deal with this threat.
Well, a year later, several attacks later, we salute Caroline Glick.
Link: http://myrightword.blogspot.com/2012/04/14-months-late-and-bibi-agress-with.html
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Nothing is forever and nothing is perfect, not even international treaties. But the Camp David Accords bought Israel over thirty years of peace on her southern border allowing for economic and social development on a massive scale, and weakened Egypt's military considerably by taking it out of the Soviet Union's orbit. Even now, Egypt remains weak and unstable, and may remain that way for decades, and while the Beduin clans and gangs in the Sinai are troublesome, they are no more of an existential threat to Israel than Hamas. The Israeli Egyptian peace was and is a good thing, it's just running out of time. Take my word for it, times change and nothing remains static indefinitely.
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