http://imra.org.il/story.php3?id=57907

Date: 17 August 2012

Israel Radio Arab Affairs analyst Eran Zinger reported during the noon news magazine program that in recent day Egypt has deployed anti-aircraft missiles near Israel’s border in Egyptian Sinai without permission from Israel.

Such equipment is prohibited in the area according to the Egypt-Israel peace treaty.

Suffice it to say that the Bedouins in Sinai that Egypt are ostensibly deploying forces to battle do not possess either helicopters or planes.

Egyptian President Morsy isn’t just a chess player. He is a speed chess player.

He has achieved more to consolidate his power in a few weeks than his Turkish counterpart did in years.

And he is not stopping anytime soon.

President Morsy is operating at a fantastic advantage. Thanks to years of experience interacting with Americans both as a graduate student and then as an assistant professor at California State University Northridge in the early 1980’s, he doesn’t need to rely on advisors to figure out how to best manipulate the useful idiots in Washington.

And despite whatever messages may be making their way from Jerusalem behind the scenes, Morsy also is observing that Israel appears to be determined to bend over backwards to avoid developments in Sinai leading to a confrontation.

So just what is President Morsy’s goal?

“Only” restoration of full sovereignty in the Sinai as expressed by unrestricted force deployments up to Israel’s border?

Or is this nothing more than a move on the board on the way to a greater goal?

Hint: President Morsy isn’t from the Boy Scouts. He is from the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood, a group openly committed to the destruction of the State of Israel.

Clarification: President Morsy never said that Egypt would honor the treaty with Israel come what may. He and the other Egyptian officials have always made it clear that international treaties would be honored as long as the other parties to those agreements honor them. How much effort would it take for Egypt to come up with an argument, if it wanted to, that Israel has not honored the treaty?

In the panel discussion that followed Zinger’s report, it was observed that the short term consequences of what is taking place now in the Sinai may be more catastrophic for Israel than the short term consequences of developments in Iran.

Will Israel’s leadership address this challenge before it is too late?

Dr. Aaron Lerner, Director IMRA (Independent Media Review & Analysis)
(Mail POB 982 Kfar Sava)
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