“THE MIRAGE OF SINAI”

Perhaps many people in the West have forgotten what ISIS is. Have the Arab rulers and especially the Egyptians forgotten?

 

By Yossi Tevi

After the end of the last Arab-Israeli war in the 1970s, a geographical and visible separation between Egypt and Israel was established (with the 1978 Peace Treaty) to prevent a new attempt by either side to launch a surprise attack. Sinai became consecrated to be a space of separation between both actors under the observation of the United Nations. The passing of the years and the decades have turned it into something more than a demilitarized zone and both for some and for others, it has become anything else.

At this point and given the new dirty war tactics that are used to try to degrade the enemy, Sinai's function as a demilitarized space to guarantee non-aggression has only contributed to offering a paradise for the recruitment, training and commissioning of Islamist groups with non-Islamic directors.

The sudden appearance of ISIS in 2014 has played a fundamental role in the growth of insecurity and violence in the peninsula that curiously only affects Egyptians. This was functional for Israel who, with a multimillion-dollar budget and almost unlimited military technological resources (sent from the US), forced Egypt to cooperate in a common security plan for the entire Peninsula. But it is known that while the Israelis show an empty palm of their hands in the other there is a dagger ready to attack. The concerns of Israeli intelligence and their CIA colleagues with these “pseudo-Islamist” cells (especially operating in Syria) give no assurance of sincere concern.

This was by no means accidental. Those in the West who relate the “phenomenon” of “Daesh” do so artificially and do not say that it arose within the framework of the campaign of aggression against Syria and in which France, the United Kingdom (through the White Helmets) and the United States (through the tireless Hillary Clinton's efforts to finance the Syrian opposition) had a capital involvement in it. Nor do they mention that the so-called “Caliph” Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi was a mercenary (imposing the role of an Iraqi doctor manufactured by the Americans and who never existed) who, along with other leaders of armed gangs supported from Washington, met with Senator John Mc Cain in 2013 on the occasion of his visit to encourage his fight against Damascus.

This reminder preface is essential to understand why the resurgence of terrorism in Sinai has a very suspicious smell.

Even if it seems to you that this has nothing to do with what is happening in Ukraine, believe me, you are wrong. First of all, the Middle East and in particular Syria and Iraq owe it to Russia for having intervened in September 2015 to stop the advance and subsequent defeat of ISIS. Since 2012, Moscow had already been cooperating with Damascus to combat the terrorist groups of Wahabi and Takfir affiliation. Those who put together the pseudo-Islamist deception (linked to the Five Eyes) did not forget this and only waited for the opportunity to return courtesies to Moscow. The first blow to Moscow's withdrawal was undoubtedly the shooting down of the Metrojet on October 31, 2015 over Sinai. Despite this bloody message, Moscow was not frightened and, on the contrary, struck hard at these gangs and their sponsors.

That had an indirect effect on the structure of this organization that was also exposed as a fraud in Afghanistan (ISIS-Khorasan), from where the Anglo-Americans in September 2021 ran away.

Vladimir Putin's decision to end the ISIS enclaves in Syria (especially Palmyra) was decisive for the Iraqis and Iranians to be able to recapture Mosul in 2017. With this it is clear that the US was not the one who achieved this achievement (claimed by Donald Trump) recalling his shady role on the ground. There are still many embarrassing issues for the Americans and their NATO allies that have not come to light in large part because of the corrupt gang (CIA-linked) in power in Baghdad. Do you even know where the commanders of this farce? Likewise, that does not hide the suspicion that resources are being injected to reissue a return of ISIS.

What makes you suspect that they are seeking to revive the psychosis of ISIS Islamist terrorism near Israel? If there is a threat, there are excuses to increase and extend surveillance over a territory with the most important sea crossings for commercial traffic. Don't you think it's convenient?

The increase in the actions of gangs that identify themselves with ISIS in Sinai is the bloodiest and most concrete indication that leads to these suspicions. So far in May, attacks against Egyptian military posts have intensified, killing many army personnel. The last one carried out on May 8 in “Bear Al Abd” to the west of the peninsula where eleven Egyptian soldiers were killed. On the contrary (and as has happened before) the Israelis have not received any attacks. Luck or fix? Perhaps you forget the connections between the “Al Nusrah” gang (affiliate of Al Qaeda) in Quneitra with the Israeli military intelligence. Or the video montages and the infiltrations paid by the Mossad in Gaza to create a “Daesh” branch that would rival "Hamas" and it didn't work. Why? There are not enough Shiites there to blame them. It was a frustration for “Bibi” and the entourage of extremists who supported him, but especially for his liar spokesman Yigal Palmor who with his tangled arguments wanted to explain the inexplicable. And worse still for the unpleasant Avigdor Lieberman who prayed to “Yahweh” that the sea swallow the Gaza Strip.

When the farce of the Caliphate was installed in Iraq back in June 2014, no one in the Anglo-American media noticed that in the portentous processions in which the brand new ISIS mobile units paraded there were artillery pieces, armored vehicles and Saudi supplies of American origin, certainly curious, don't you think so? Even many of the commanders of the Iraqi Revolutionary Military Committees (which were part of the resistance) who fell for the deception, could see that these weapons and equipment had not come from the captured bases in the north, but the desire to get rid of the puppets in Baghdad beat them.

What happened in Iraq with ISIS was undoubtedly a lesson for all Arab and Islamic countries, but also for Israel, which has been a party to this and believes that by outsourcing its creations it will escape its consequences. The trick of blowing up sectarianism can backfire. Today it seems that Egypt can become the center of action of this hoax for the purpose of distraction due to what is happening in Ukraine. If President Adelfatah Al Sisi and his rulers do not pay attention to the dynamics of this threat, they could fall into the same trap that the Mesopotamians fell into.