After a bloody attack on a Sinai police station earlier this month, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak was crowing about it as vindication for demands for a crackdown on anti-Israel militants, saying it would serve as a “wake-up call” to President Mursi for the need for such an operation.
Now that Mursi has ordered tanks to the region to follow through with the crackdown, Israel is fuming again, insisting that the deployment violates the peace treaty between the two nations and demanding Egypt remove the tanks immediately.
One of the conditions in the 1979 Camp David Accords was the demilitarization of much of Sinai, but militant factions have been using the area around the border with Israel as a staging area for attacks.
Theoretically Egypt could make such deployments with Israel’s explicit approval, but after endorsing early moves into the region they have stopped and have now turned against the crackdown.
Morsey is going to ignore this demsnd snd msy well deploy more.
Are these people are crazy or they are just stupid enough to be called crazy.
The Egyptians should stay put. After all it's their land. Barak and Netanyahu may get as angry as they want. Who knows the world may get lucky and they may get a heart attack.
I should think that Israel would be the last to bring up treaty violations. Oh, wait…when Israel signs a treaty the small print (only they can see) says it really doesn't mean they have to abide by the terms of the treaty…because they're special…God's chosen…uh huh.
Israel never keeps a promise if it hurts,
which is what owning nukes is all about.
Rumsfeld explained this: You go with the army you've got. The Egyptian Army is organized and trained to with armored vehicles. That is what they are and how they do things. They can't just leave their vehicles, ammo, and many weapons behind and walk out into the Sinai with their personal weapons.
Israel via the Americans was pushing the Egyptian Army to reorganize as a lightly armed civil guard force to police the country, not just the Sinai. The Egyptian Army stubbornly insists on being able to fight a real enemy, and yes that means training and equipping to fight Israel. Just like the US trains and equips to fight the nearest it has to a peer competitor.
The recently departed Field Marshal was a subject of frequent Israeli attacks because he would not do that. Of course, once Morsi fired him, that FM was a hero to the guys who could not stand him.
Whole civilised WORLD demands end of Palestine occupation for sometime ?…Egypt should translate some of their old religious text to suit this situacion and just say, that "Their God instricted them to maintain strong military force in Sinay"…or better, just move their tanks in " full speed without stopping" to Syria, Lebanon borders….destroy everything and if World protests, then bring "THEIR OWN INVESTIGACION" and say how carefful and moral was their "ride"…peter czech
When Israel complies with the terms of the Israeli/Egypt peace agreement, that is they start to unoccupy and completely withdraw the Palestinian lands as promised, then the world should take their concerns about the militarization of the Sinai seriously. Israel has defied the UN Security Council directives on many occasions and is allowed to get away with snubbing its nose at the world.
To psychopaths like Barak and Netanyahu, it's damned if you do, and damned if you don't. They're looking for any excuse – no matter how miniscule – to start a major war in the region.
Israel wanted a crackdown on militants in the Sinai, and once Egypt moves the equipment in to do the job Israel has a problem with it? It just seems like there is no apeasing the Zionist regime (and note that I do not mention the Jewish people; they are as powerless as the civilain populace in AmeriKa) until they end up with the middle east (and by default most of the rest of the world) embroiled in a messy war. That's all we need, another mess made by depleted uranium munitions, not to mention the immediate and unnecessary losses of human life in pursuit of the Zionist goals..