This Ongoing War..
10 January '13..
On January 5, 2013, we posted here under the title "5-Jan-13: The headaches from Sinai grow in intensity" about the seizure by the Egyptians of U.S.-made missiles concealed in a pit in the sands of northern Sinai. This followed a similar intelligence-driven intercept a little earlier of French-made missiles elsewhere in Sinai. All these - along with vastly larger numbers of non-intercepted rockets - were intended to be smuggled into the hands of the Palestinian Arab terrorists of Hamas in Gaza. So were most of the 1,500+ rockets fired at Israeli civilian targets in November's fighting from Hamas-controlled Gaza. We therefore know pretty well what the intended purpose was.
We concluded with these words:
For each announcement of weapons having been intercepted on their way into Gaza, there are dozens, maybe hundreds, not announced and not intercepted. Sinai is a growing and major source of existential terrorist danger to Israelis.
That's important information for anyone concerned about the constant spiral downwards into cross-border violence that is again a constant factor in the highly volatile Arab world in the wake of what is innocuously, but misleadingly, termed the Arab Spring.
Now this morning from BBC Watch, there is this spot-on comment under the heading "BBC silent on weapons smuggling to Gaza". After pointing out that the rocket seizures got coverage via the Palestinian Ma’an News Agency and Associated Press among others, nevertheless:
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