So the highly-touted Egyptian guarding of the Israeli border in Gaza will likely turn into the same lack of guarding that they’re doing in the Negev.
Rocket threat in the West Bank? The Shin Bet has detained three “Qassam rocket engineers†belonging to the Popular Resistance Committees terror group on their way from Gaza to the West Bank town of Jenin.
The terrorists were apprehended near Mitzpe Ramon, in the southern Negev desert, at the beginning of the month, but the story was only now cleared for publication. According to the Shin Bet, the three were able to enter Israel with the assistance of bribed Egyptian police officers and a Bedouin accomplice.
Unfortunately, Israel is ignoring the danger on her southern border:
The latest arrests revealed once again Israel’s ongoing failure to secure its southern border. The breached border between Israel and Egypt in the area south of Nitzana has become one of the country’s most pressing security concerns.
IDF Intelligence Chief Aharon Ze’evi Farkash lately warned that the al-Qaeda terror organization has established a base of operations in Sinai.
A top intelligence source told Ynet, referring to the southern sector, that “if Israel continues to be indifferent to this problem, this will become our next Lebanon.”
Time to build another fence.
The only one who believed in Egypt’s sincerity at patrolling the 7 mile long Gaza/Egypt border was the State Department.
All the time the smuggling of arms and movement of terrorists took place under the nose of the Sphynx and State didn’t get even get a whiff..
When Hamas “broke” through the border after Israel withdrew they were given almost a week to transport the stockpile of arms, explosives and drugs from Sinai into Gaza. [the MSM only showed people climbing over or through holes in the wall. They did not show the other openings with motor vehicles passing through might have had UN ambulances]
Imagine that all that stuff could suddenly appear and nobody on the Egyptian side be aware of it as the tourist bargain it proved to be; we’re not talking about the CIA here.
Now the Israeli/Sinai border is much longer and given Egypt’s interest in its peace treaty with the Israelis we can look forward to more episodes