“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.