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| Report: Israel worried Egypt's Sisi might fall to jihadist insurgents |
| 2015-11-08 |
| [Jpost] A former US politician co-authored a report in which he states that his team met with a number of Israeli defense and security analysts in recent weeks. Israeli officials are reportedly growing concerned over the long-term viability of the current Egyptian regime in light of gains made by Islamists in their insurgency. Bloomberg News quoted a former Republican politician on Friday as saying that Israeli government figures are beginning to wonder whether Egypt's president, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, can successfully overcome the threats posed to his rule by Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... -inspired Salafist gunnies. Egypt's tourism industry - a key source of revenue for the cash-strapped Arab giant - is expected to take an even bigger hit in the wake of Saturday's crash of a Russian airline in the Sinai Peninsula. All 224 passengers on board were killed in what Western intelligence agencies say may have been a terrorist bomb. "We encountered a lot of people in Israel and elsewhere that don't think that he is going to survive his term," Vin Weber, a former Republican member of Congress, told Bloomberg. Weber is currently the co-chairman of the Egypt policy task force of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. The think tank released a report co-authored by Weber in which he states that his team met with a number of Israeli defense and security analysts in recent weeks. According to the report, Weber's interlocutors paint a bleak picture of Sisi's current standing in Cairo. "[Sisi] is under constant death threats," Weber told Bloomberg. "Many people said we're not sure where he sleeps every night. And I think there is that question mark in the minds of the Israelis about whether or not the government can succeed." An insurgency based in Sinai and mounted by Islamic State's Egyptian affiliate has killed hundreds of soldiers and police. In recent months, it has expanded to Western targets in Egypt. The Islamist insurgency gained pace after Egypt's military, under Sisi's command, overthrew President Mohammed Morsi of the Moslem Brüderbund Islamist movement in mid-2013 in the wake of mass protests against his rule. Islamic State controls large parts of Iraq and Syria, has a presence in Libya and the support of murderous Moslems in Egypt seeking to topple the Cairo government. Sisi has described Islamist militancy as an existential threat to Egypt, the most populous Arab state and a close US ally. Weber's co-chair in heading the task force, Greg Craig, told Bloomberg that while Egyptian-Israeli security cooperation in the Sinai has never been better - particularly since the 2014 Israeli military offensive against Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, in the Gazoo Strip - Jerusalem gives the former general low marks in the manner in which he has tried to crush the Islamist uprising. "We did spend some time with Israeli national security folks," said Craig, a former B.O. regime official. "One of the smartest persons I've ever met in terms of analytical capacity was talking about the Egyptian proclivity to do all the wrong things when it comes to counter-insurgency." "If you had a list of boxes you checked of things not to do, the Egyptian military has checked every one of those boxes," Craig said. Sisi has reportedly acknowledged that Islamists have tried to assassinate him on at least two occasions. Remarkably, though, there is now concern that the Egyptian president has enemies within the ranks of the military. This past August, 26 Egyptian officers were sentenced to jail by a military court for allegedly plotting to overthrow Sisi. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #7 If the Jews had any sense, they would do all that, but like the USA, they are ruled often by leftist extremists(the judiciary, for example) that are rabidly pro-muslim terror. |
| Posted by: Chuckles Turkeyneck3558 2015-11-08 23:32 |
| #6 Wehell, presuming that neither the US-Allies nor Putinist Russia send in ANti-ISIS Milfors to the Sinai region, + Egypt does fall, Israel will deem the 1979 Begin-Sadat Accors as moot or obsolete, + WILL LIKELY MILITARILY RE-OCCUPY THE SINAI. DITTO IFF THE ISIS/ISIL ATTACK + DESTABILIZE HASHEMITE-RULED JORDAN - ISRAEL WILL NOT ONLY INVADE JORDAN TO PROTECT ITS BORDERS, BUT MAY ALSO DEPORT ANY + ALL PALEOS FROM GAZA-WEST BANK INTO ALREADY PALEO-MAJORITY JORDAN. Don't even want to think about the ISIS/ISIL attacking + destabilizing the KSA. GOD HELP NOT-YET-EURO-SOVIET, EURO-SOCIALIST WANNABE AMERIKA IFF THE BAMMER'S SUCCESSOR(S) IS ANOTHER SUPER/HYPER-PC ANTI-US US OWG GLOBIE. Plus the Pearl Harbor BB USS "Oklahoma" in the Pacific. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2015-11-08 21:05 |
| #5 I thought y'all deserved a bit of a chew toy. ;-) |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2015-11-08 18:19 |
| #4 He's just mad Sisi is killing B.O. and Morsi's MoBros. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2015-11-08 17:57 |
| #3 Washington Institute for Near East Policy Directed, advised and staffed by the same folks that brought you the last half-century of foreign-policy success. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2015-11-08 14:35 |
| #2 No, your first choice should be anyone connected with the administration that TRIED TO GIVE EGYPT TO THE JIHADIS. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2015-11-08 14:01 |
| #1 Weber's co-chair in heading the task force, Greg Craig, told Bloomberg that while Egyptian-Israeli security cooperation in the Sinai has never been better - particularly since the 2014 Israeli military offensive against Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, in the Gazoo Strip - Jerusalem gives the former general low marks in the manner in which he has tried to crush the Islamist uprising. "We did spend some time with Israeli national security folks," said Craig, a former B.O. regime official. "One of the smartest persons I've ever met in terms of analytical capacity was talking about the Egyptian proclivity to do all the wrong things when it comes to counter-insurgency. when I think of smart geopolitical minds, I always think of Greg Craig, former Obama WH Counsel, assistant to the President and special counsel in the White House of President Bill Clinton, and a senior advisor to Senator Edward Kennedy and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. Yeah...my first choice. *SPIT* |
| Posted by: Frank G 2015-11-08 13:42 |