Egypt’s military has ordered a large number of tanks massed in the Sinai Peninsula along the border with the Gaza Strip, a move which locals say is unprecedented in recent memory.
Under treaty, Egypt is obliged to coordinate any military operations in Sinai with Israel’s government, but it is unclear if this actually happened, and the speculation is that the deployment aims to prevent Hamas from aiding Egypt’s civilian government.
That makes the timing of the deployment particularly grim, as the military is openly threatening to launch a coup within the next 48 hours if President Mohammed Morsi doesn’t placate the opposition protesters taking to the streets in Cairo.
Virtually the entire modern history of Egypt is one of military rule, from the 1952 military coup that ended the monarchy though the 2011 revolution that ousted Hosni Mubarak. Even after Mubarak, a military junta effectively ran the country through the mid-2012 election of Morsi, and has been looming over his shoulder since.
That is exactly what Egypt needs to kick their Revolution out of neutral, Hamas protecting the elected officials from a military coup.
Maddening crowd — Where stupidity knows no equal
Most of the problems plaguing Morsi are being orchestrated by the military, electric power blackouts, a starving population, surely it’s the military. Yet, the gigantic crowd is demanding that the military be put back in power.
So, either the human race is devolving into self-destruction, or by intelligent design we are destined to reach the ultimate conclusion of a world without common horse sense.
Morsi is a fool. After taking power he should have moved immediately to restore order and get the tourists back into Egypt. Egypt depends on tourism revenue for its survival. They cannot feed themselves and don't have much industry. Their only real monetizable asset is their history. People can't eat Islam. Egypt's only other options are to conquer neighbors that have more arable land and/or oil.
It's difficult to assess how much is being instigated precisely to cause more chaos. Obviously, many people are not happy with Morsi's rule.
The Brotherhood has been supported by the US since Nasser's regime as a counterbalance to him. The army as well has been getting US money for a long time, etc., and so many other candidates-in-waiting seem to be within the NWO fold. Maybe it's the old classic of NWO playing all ends against the middle, well perfected by now. to create chaos with the objective of greater control..
Yes, the Israelis have given the green light for Egypt’s military build up on the Gaza border and have done so on the theory that it would prevent arms moving from Sinai into Gaza as much as the Egyptians are trying to block the movement of arms and jihadi fighters into Sinai from Gaza as well as from Sinai into other parts of the country to exploit the current political instability for their own purposes. The Israelis are fully aware that Sinai has become an even greater security problem since the advent of the MB government and clearly support military and security force actions to take the lawless region back under the control of the state. The assassination in rapid succession of two police Intel officers investigating the kidnapping of other police earlier and the lack of response on the part of the nation’s leadership is one of the leading reasons why the police have taken sides AGAINST Morsi in this current battle of wills with demonstrators.
An unconfirmed Israeli media report claimed that their intelligence sources had intercepted telephone conversations between deputy MB supreme guide Khairat El Shater and the people who committed the most recent murders of police investigators in Sinai. El Shater, by the way, bore personal animus towards the first of these two, Mohammed Abu Shaqra, a member of an elite force within the Ministry of Defense, who had been tasked to escort the then imprisoned MB leader when he was given permission to leave for a brief period to attend his mother’s funeral. The diligence that Abu Shaqra and the other officer clutching him from the other side greatly angered El Shater who was denied hoped for privacy to talk to supporters.
El Shater’s relations with various groups in Gaza are extensive. Hamas led the massive, heavily armed attacks by Palestinians and Sinai tribesmen on the prisons to release MB leaders [including Morsi], as well as Hamas, Hezbollah and other operatives. Gaza TV recorded the joyous return of senior Hamas leader Ahmed Nowfal upon his return that same evening via the tunnels. El Shater also tried to disassociate himself from one of his bodyguards arrested for carrying arms because of the man’s record of militia training in Gaza by the Ezz-ed-Din Qassam Brigades. If El Shater managed to escape the country before the current travel ban for senior MB officials, it will have been with the help of his Palestinian friends.
It will end in a mass murder, not that anybody in the democratic West does care. Remember the Russian revolution – people got murdered by their own military and it was when the soldiers had to reload or ran out of ammo when they got what they deserved.
Sorry, there might be only on way – risk you lives with the possibility of death or walk on your knees for the rest of your life. Of course the US empire will happily supply enough ammo so that the Egyptian dream can't become reality.