Israel says it arrived postage due.
"Egypt official: leader’s letter to Israel is fake" by Daniel Estrin | Associated Press, August 01, 2012
JERUSALEM — A letter to Israel from Egypt’s new president hoping for regional peace kicked up a stir Tuesday when the Egyptian leader’s Islamist movement denied he sent it. Israel insisted the letter was genuine.
I know it is terrible; however, given the Lavon Affair and the attack on the USS Liberty (among other nefarious things) I simply don't trust Israel when they insist. They have lied for too long and I just see everything out of their mouths these days as lies (and they probably are).
The spat underlined the touchy nature of Egyptian-Israeli relations, always frosty but now especially sensitive since the Muslim Brotherhood victories in Egyptian elections.
It also appeared to show some disarray in the fractured Egyptian government.
And CUI BONO?
The letter, ostensibly sent by Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, was a response to a message from Israeli President Shimon Peres, conveying Israel’s good wishes for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
The return letter, released by the Israeli president’s office, was on the stationery of the Egyptian Embassy in Tel Aviv.
Oh, well, that makes it official. Not like an operative or spy could have stolen a piece of stationary or anything. I mean, c'mon!
In it, Morsi appeared to write in English, ‘‘I am looking forward to exerting our best efforts to get the Middle east Peace Process back to its right track in order to achieve security and stability for all peoples of the region, including that Israeli people.’’ The Israeli president’s name was spelled ‘‘Perez.’’
Oh, the name was misspelled. Must have been Morsi.
Then a spokesman for Morsi, Yasser Ali, said in Cairo that Morsi had not written a letter to the Israeli president at all.
An official in Peres’s office — speaking anonymously because the issue concerned sensitive diplomatic relations between the two countries — said the president’s aides received the official communique Tuesday from the Egyptian ambassador to Israel, both by registered mail and by fax from the embassy in Tel Aviv.
Peres’s office asked the Egyptian ambassador if it could publicize the letter or if it should be kept secret, the official said. The Egyptian envoy phoned Morsi’s office to inquire, the official said, and then told Peres’s aides that Morsi’s staff had given the green light to make the letter public.
Peres’s office sent reporters a copy of what was said to be the faxed letter. The top of the letter featured a time stamp with Tuesday’s date, the phone number from which the fax was sent, and the label ‘‘EGY EMB TEL AVIV.’’
Oh, who could doubt it now?
The fax number, which appeared to be printed automatically from the machine, was a number listed on Israel’s Foreign Ministry website as belonging to the Egyptian Embassy in Israel.
How much more "evidence" do you need?
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Think I'll go check the Globe mailbox again:
"Militants kill 16 Egyptian border guards" by Ashraf Sweilam | Associated Press, August 06, 2012
EL-ARISH, Egypt — Masked gunmen killed 16 Egyptian guards Sunday at a security checkpoint along the border with Gaza and Israel, attacking with automatic rifles and weapons mounted on their vehicles, security and health officials said.
Egypt blamed Islamist militants from Gaza and Egypt’s troubled Sinai desert.
The Israeli military said the attack was part of a plot to abduct an Israeli soldier, and two vehicles commandeered by the attackers crashed in Israel, where one blew up.
How could they know that?
In a statement, Defense Minister Ehud Barak of Israel said its military and the internal security agency ‘‘thwarted an attack that could have injured many. The militants’ attack methods again raise the need for determined Egyptian action to enforce security and prevent terror in the Sinai.’’
Or what? Israel will retake it?
The attack took place about sunset in the Egyptian border town Rafah, when the troops were having the traditional meal at the end of the daily fast during the holy month of Ramadan.
Wouldn't the "terrorists" be doing the same thing?
Egyptian state TV said the attack on the checkpoint was carried out by Islamist militants. Emergency services official Ahmed el-Ansari later told Egypt’s news agency that 16 were killed in the attack. He said seven were wounded by gunfire.
In a separate development Sunday, an Israeli air strike on the Gaza Strip killed a man on a motorcycle, according to the Hamas Health Ministry. An Israeli Army spokesman confirmed the strike. The army also said more than 10 rockets were fired into southern Israel from Gaza later Sunday, but no injuries or deaths were reported.
So while everyone was looking over to the Sinai... sigh.
State TV said President Mohammed Morsi of Egypt called for an emergency meeting with the military after the Sinai militant attack. It was one of the bloodiest attacks in Sinai in years, underlining the lawlessness of the Egyptian territory, where security forces have become targets of militants, some loosely linked with Al Qaeda.
Didn't Egypt just open the border crossing to Gaza?
Israeli military spokeswoman Lieutenant Colonel Avital Leibovich said one vehicle exploded, and Israeli aircraft struck the second one, killing an unspecified number of militants trying to escape. Israeli government spokesman Ofir Gendelman said seven militants were killed, four on the Israeli side and three in Egypt.
She said Israeli soldiers were combing the area for other militants who might still be on the Israeli side of the border. The military instructed Israeli civilians to stay inside their homes.
An Egyptian military official said Egyptian troops were pursuing the militants who returned to Egypt. A former Egyptian intelligence officer close to the military, Sameh Seif el-Yazel, told state TV the attack began inside Rafah, where the militants took the armored vehicles and headed toward the border checkpoint.
He said the militants in the seized car drove about 25 yards into Israel before Israeli troops attacked them. Some fled back into Egypt, he said.
Egyptian officials have been warning of a deteriorating security situation in Sinai, where militants have taken advantage of a security vacuum in the area after the uprising that toppled longtime President Hosni Mubarak last year.
Yeah, that damn revolution for freedom from tyranny. What a terrible thing that was.
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Related: Muslim Brotherhood blames Mossad for Sinai border attacks
'Mossad's hand in terror attacks, Gaza ghetto the goal'
August 5 Sinai Attack Bears All the Hallmarks of an Israeli False Flag
"Looks like a staged attack by Israel to trick Egypt's President Morsi into closing the Gaza border again. Consider: Why would Sinai "Jihadists" attack now when the only possible result is closure of the border and the return of the starvation blockade? Que bono? Who gains? Israel wants the border between Gaza and Egypt closed again. Therefore this is a covert false-flag attack by Israel, not people in the Sinai.
This "attack" took place just days after Egypt opened the border with Gaza, something Israel most assuredly does not want. Morsi is smart enough to know that the "suspected Islamists" (nudge nudge wink wink) were in all probability Israeli agents or put up to the attack by Israeli agents, and if Morsi does not flex his Presidential muscle and "control" the Sinai, he knows Israel will invade under the pretext of securing "their" borders and put Gaza back under a starvation blockade." -- Wake the Flock Up
You can believe who you want, readers. You can believe a lying, agenda-pushing, Muslim-hating, war-promoting Zionist prism or you can believe honorable, truth-telling bloggers.
"Israel urges Egypt to do more in Sinai" by Jodi Rudoren | New York Times, August 07, 2012
JERUSALEM — The Israeli defense minister, Ehud Barak, said Monday that a terrorist attack that killed 15 Egyptian soldiers Sunday night should serve as a “wake-up call’’ to the new Egyptian president....
There were no immediate claims of responsibility....
Aaaaaah, the HALLMARK of an INTELLIGENCE AGENCY FALSE FLAG!
Militants based in the Sinai who were helped by Palestinian militants from the Gaza Strip....
I can see what is coming, can't you?
The Rafah border crossing with Gaza was closed after the attack.
And CUI BONO?
A former deputy chief of staff of the Israeli military, retired Major General Dan Harel, said Egypt either did not want to or could not control the situation....
And we ALL KNOW what THAT MEANS!!!
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Related: Israel Intends to Seize Sinai Again
That's the way I'm reading the situation.
