MK Shteinitz: Egypt May Be Planning a Pan-Arab Attack

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MK Shteinitz: Egypt May Be Planning a Pan-Arab Attack
 
by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz

(IsraelNN.com) Even as an Egyptian delegation has brought a supposed ceasefire offer from Palestinian Authority terrorist factions to Israeli officials, Knesset Member Yuval Shteinitz (Likud) warns that Egypt's strategy is to drain IDF energy and resources by quietly promoting continued fighting with PA terrorists. In fact, Shteinitz warns, it is not unreasonable to assume that Egypt is planning for another pan-Arab attack on the Jewish State.

According to the message conveyed to Israel on Thursday by an Egyptian delegation of military officials, which met with terrorist leaders in Gaza, the armed PA factions would agree to a new "calm" (tahadeya) provided Israel cease all counter-terrorist activities in PA-controlled territories in Judea, Samaria and Gaza. The supposed offer from PA terrorist groups comes in the wake of intimations by Israeli officials that a large IDF operation in Gaza is in the offing. No PA faction has publicly admitted to agreeing to the Egyptian formula and there has been a steep increase in rocket attacks on Jewish towns in the Negev in recent days.

One of the Egyptian envoys, Burhan Hammad, "informed the Israelis of the new commitment by the [PA] factions and at same time stressed that factions demanded the calm be reciprocal and simultaneous," according to a source quoted by Reuters.

MK Shteinitz, a former head of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, said Wednesday that the covert Egyptian strategy is to facilitate continued fighting between Israel and PA-based Arab terrorists. To that end, Shteinitz charged, Egyptian forces are allowing continued smuggling of weapons and men from Sinai into Gaza. Egypt is not afraid of an Arab terrorist entity in Gaza, Shteinitz explained, which Egyptian leaders believe will serve to weaken the IDF.

The Likud MK further claimed that Egypt is cooperating with Syria and Iran in an anti-Israel coalition. Furthermore, Shteinitz did not reject the possibility that Egypt is currently planning a pan-Arab attack against Israel. The possibility is particularly worrisome due to the weakness of the current government, he said, which he believes is the weakest government in 30 years.

In an interview with Arutz-7 on Wednesday, MK Shteinitz said that Israel must ignore pleas for a ceasefire from the PA and launch a large-scale defensive operation in Gaza, similar to Operation Defensive Shield in 2002. He called on the government to return the security situation to what it was before the Oslo Accord agreements by expelling the terrorist leadership of the PA from the country and retaking control of all areas of Judea and Samaria.

Any planned Israeli operation, MK Shteinitz emphasized, must also target senior Hamas officials, such as Ismail Haniyeh, despite their inclusion in the PA government. As an example, he noted, former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon isolated Fatah terrorist and former PA leader Yasser Arafat in his Mukata compound, and even considered expelling him from the country.

MK Shteinitz: Egypt May Be Planning a Pan-Arab Attack

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MK Hasson: Prepare for war with Israel’s Arabs

Yisrael Beiteinu member warns of ‘second war for independence’ against Israeli Arabs, criticizes country’s ‘passivity’
Amnon Meranda

MK Israel Hasson (Yisrael Beiteinu (said on Thursday that in a “normal” country, former Knesset Member Azmi Bishara, would already be behind bars.

Bishara, who left Israel nearly three weeks ago, is under investigation for suspected collaboration with the enemy during the Second Lebanon War last summer.

“If we don’t wake up now, we will have to fight for our independence again very soon. It will be a second war for independence against Israel’s Arabs who will be supported by Hamas,” Hasson said.

“A few years ago, the Balad movement was comprised of 200 intellectuals. Today it has three Knesset members and an open relationship with Hizbullah and Syria while we are in a war situation. This is unheard of.”

Hasson blamed Israel for “turning a blind eye” to the MK’s connection with the country’s enemies, while Arab movements were publishing articles calling for readers not to accept Israel as a country for the Jewish people.

“Under the auspices of democracy … we are responding passively and facing the process of growing agitation amongst Israel’s Arabs who are not willing to accept the fact the country is a Jewish one.

“Qassams are fired at us, and we remain silent. Enormous amounts of weapons are smuggled into Gaza, and we remain silent. The Arabs interpret this passivity as weakness.

“We must send Haniyeh a clear message: Gilad Shalit is to be released unconditionally and immediately. We’ve already paid the price by allowing the leaders to stay alive.

“If Gilad Shalit is not released immediately, we must collect that price from the commanders and leaders of terror by physically eliminating them, no matter what their position may be,” Hasson said.

MK Hasson: Prepare for war with Israel’s Arabs

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For the last several years high level ministers of Iran, Iraq (under saddam), Syria and Jordan have been holding meetings, all hush hush.

This maybe a summer to remember............

In the mean time, KEEP LOOKING UP

One thing that caught my eye is......

The possibility is particularly worrisome due to the weakness of the current government, he said, which he believes is the weakest government in 30 years.

I'm not sure I'd be advertising that to the world. It's one thing for people to look on and see it, another to admit something like this to everyone.