Posted on 04/06/2015 3:31:42 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Egypt is basically a one bomb country. Knock out the Aswan Dam and you flood all of the big population centers along the Nile. Add radioactivity if you please...because even without a nuke the dam is easily destroyed. You kill millions with one strike, and effectively starve most of the rest. Al-Sisi is not insane like the Moslem crazies.
I think Israel should keep it eyes open. There’s always the outside chance Egypt would try something. Israel would make them pay heavily.
Let's see now....If a moslem says a bunch of words in English...are any of them true?
So the Israelis nuke the Aswan dam.
Game over.
You beat me to it.
Obama and Kerry gave the green light to ME thugs to attack Israel... that was one of the messages of the negotiations. Why should Arabs wait for an Iranian nuke when they know Obama...
Times have changed
Sounds like a statement based more on faith than on evidence. Times don’t change that quickly.
I think we can chalk this one up as “rumours of wars” can’t we?
Agreed
Sisi has been very accomodating toward Israel, and has been a real enemy of Hamas. This headline and article do not jive with reality and are to be vetted before being believed. It might be disinformation.
Why would Sisi have pushed for a united Arab armed force, then? That’s something that Nasser could only have dreamed of. Sounds like “beneficial crisis” to me.
(Why would Sisi have pushed for a united Arab armed force, then? That’s something that Nasser could only have dreamed of. Sounds like “beneficial crisis” to me.)
Why go after a conspiracy theory instead of what’s already happening on the ground? Sunnis are already fighting Iran-supported Shia in Yemen. That’s what the joint force is supposed to do. Now that Iran is getting the green light from Obama to be a nuclear power, the Sunnis are scared shitless, and are making noise about allying themselves WITH Israel against Iran. This is not idle chatter as words of support to Israel usually are detrimental to any leader who utters them in the Arab world!
That’s the same kind of reasoning that saw Saddam Hussein as a friend of the USA.
The big crowd in Tahrir Square in 2011, and what they were chanting, is no conspiracy theory. There will be no alliance with Israel when the opportunity of invading Israel as a bonus prize presents itself during a conflict with Iran.
I think Sisi is the most courageous Arab leader since Anwar al Sadat, and the most tolerant one.
http://www.wnd.com/2015/01/islams-reaction-to-al-sisi-speech/
Morsi wouldn’t have picked him if he had an inkling that Sisi was truly like that. Islamic credentials can’t be faked. Sisi has not changed the Egyptian constitution, which is thoroughly Islamic still and calls for Arab unity.
It’s hard for me to buy this. Egypt isn’t what you’d call stable. Inviting the Jews to invade, and possibly, wipe them out is, well . . .
Another poster here rightfully points out that Israel is one of the best, most effective, and cost-free military bulwark against Iran, and Russia for that matter.
They recently tried to cede their own land in order to finally settle the Palestinian question once and for all. They offered a permanent home for Palestinians, in exchange for them dropping the matter of destroying the Jewish race from their charter. That was really the only stipulation.
They refused.
I think everybody in the region is preparing for war, and anyone sharing a border with the Russians are too.
Thanks Obola!
(Morsi wouldn’t have picked him if he had an inkling that Sisi was truly like that.) Islamic credentials can’t be faked. Sisi has not changed the Egyptian constitution, which is thoroughly Islamic still and calls for Arab unity.)
By now there is nothing more obvious than the fact that Morsi made a monumental mistake picking Sisi who ended up leading a coup against him, jailed him and other Muslim Brotherhood leaders, and made the Muslim Brotherhood illegal!
And I never said that just because their leader sounds conciliatory toward Israel, that suddenly Egyptians forgot a lifetime worth of brainwashing and are now Israel’s best friends! Hence that argument about not changing the Constitution isn’t a fair one. Knowing where regular Egyptians are (especially after the Morsi regime fell after the Brotherhood went too far by changing the Constitution) mentally, it is premature for Sisi to pick that battle. Let’s hope he is elected President. You know Obama will do his best to have him defeated, just like he tried with Netanyahu.
There's just one risk for Israel in Egypt -- and that is the overthrow of al-Sisi, or a civil war a la Syria.
That said, all countries have contingency plans if they're smart; since Israel has successfully (and justifiably) expelled Egypt from the Sinai twice in 50 years, it only makes sense that the Egyptian army practices some kind of scenario.
As ckilmer saz above, the source has potential motives for opposing al-Sisi (fled from his rule, not from the MB's), and more to the point, wouldn't be in a position to know what the upper echelons discuss. As Ancesthntr said, a public statement like this could have resulted from extortion.
Despite all that, Israel must never all into the complacency it has prior to the 1973 war, when there was ample intel indicating imminent war, and the Meir gov't did nothing to prepare.
As Bob434 mentioned, Israel has started to develop offshore gas (and some oil resources), and is part of the route between Jordan and Egypt -- that gas pipeline was sabotaged by the Sinai jihadists.
More than one mentioned the threat to shipping (unless that was in another topic, blush), and that means through the Suez Canal; losing that traffic would be a major drag to Egypt's economy. Israel has flown sorties to Sudan and Somalia in recent years, and in 2015 at least one to Libya. Egypt had to be consulted so it could look the other way.
The current joint operation in Yemen differs from Nasser's Yemen involvement in that Nasser and the House of Saud were the adversaries at that time. Morocco is participating, as are the former allies of Iran in Qatar, and Bahrain has a large (bootleg) Shiite population.
As x asked, "what are wide canals"? The only "wide canals" Egypt has been building in the Sinai consist of a twenty-year-long project to irrigate the Med and Red coasts with Nile water, and the current project of digging a deep water barrier to block Gaza smuggling.
The “Palestinians” have been offered a “permanent home” for the past sixty years. That is not what they want. The overarching goal for the region is “Arab unity”, which is also in the Egyptian constitution—and no State of Israel.
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