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| Building Sinai | |
| 2019-05-10 | |
Developing Sinai is essential for the security and stability of Egypt, says Nagui Shohoud of the Higher Nasser Military Academy. In the past there have been several attempts to alter the character of the peninsula, beginning with the Tripartite Aggression in 1956 and including the 1967 War between Egypt and Israel and subsequent attempts by the then Israel defence minister Moshe Dayan to secure the allegiance of Sinai’s Bedouins, and machinations by the Moslem Brüderbund to turn Sinai into an 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.... While Egypt had intended to develop the peninsula since its full liberation in April 1982 somehow the plans were never implemented. Now, almost four decades on, and following the attempt to create an Islamic state in Sinai, development is finally being accorded the priority it deserves. "Gradually," says Shohoud, "Sinai’s isolation will end and it will be merged with the rest of Egypt’s governorates." According to Shohoud, it is essential the peninsula builds a comprehensive, functioning economy. "Egypt is in dire need of Sinai’s wealth of mineral deposits and crops," he says, and the tunnels are essential to developing these resources. The development process has been lent additional urgency by the ongoing Comprehensive Operation Sinai, the counter-terrorism campaign launched in 2018 targeting Islamist snuffies and criminal activity that undermine national security and stability. | |
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