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EGYPT AND ISRAEL:"JOINT VENTURE"

<br /> <br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #134f5c;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqnV2UAr_hyM-7Q8rKPbW2n1bv-L5eS12iAYwtS7XrqRsXrqMVwrV4NOggGDAq_WJRpEuG4Va4_Dj0qDxJN6JH_P8v_jAkGnP8B3UJoj7LDeSQN8_28XRTS5KdPfcTd6baAcuwGxgPJGev/s1600/323295champagne.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqnV2UAr_hyM-7Q8rKPbW2n1bv-L5eS12iAYwtS7XrqRsXrqMVwrV4NOggGDAq_WJRpEuG4Va4_Dj0qDxJN6JH_P8v_jAkGnP8B3UJoj7LDeSQN8_28XRTS5KdPfcTd6baAcuwGxgPJGev/s400/323295champagne.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Gaza City Skyline</b></td></tr></tbody></table></span></b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #134f5c;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">EGYPT’S MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD GOES UNDERGROUND, HIDES COMMAND STRUCTURE IN GAZA </span></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: x-small; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Via DEBKAfile </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">On July 22, debkafile revealed that a group of six Muslim Brotherhood officials escaped from EGYPT after the July 3 overthrow of president Mohamed Morsi in a military coup and smuggled themselves into the Gaza Strip to lead an uprising against the military. The group was headed by Mahmud Izzat Ibrahim, known as the Brotherhood’s “iron man” and fourth in rank in its hierarchy after Supreme Guide Muhammed Badie.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The fugitives set up a command post at the Gaza Beach Hotel for operations against EGYPTIAN military and security targets in collaboration with Hamas and armed Al Qaeda-linked Salafist Bedouin in SINAI. The group planned their revolt to spread quickly out from SINAI to EGYPT proper and topple the interim rulers in Cairo.<br />WESTERN intelligence agencies following the inner workings of the Muslim Brotherhood have since discovered that the Brotherhood’s plans are a good deal more high-powered than first thought.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">MUSLIM BROTHERHOODS HIDDEN COMMANDERS MANIPULATED FRONT POLITICIANS FROM THE SHADOWS UNDER THREE EGYPTIAN PRESIDENTS</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">According to debkafile’s intelligence sources, the movement never dismantled its clandestine paramilitary underground. Its hidden commanders manipulated front politicians from the shadows under three EGYPTIAN presidents and continued to do so after the Brotherhood was elected to power in Cairo in 2012. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />At all times since then, the Brothers stood ready to step in should their Freedom and Justice Party leaders be ousted and sent back to prison. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Supreme Guide,” Mohammed Badie was therefore no more than an obedient front for the Muslim Brotherhood’s real leader, who was until now Mr. X.<br />It now transpires that he is none other than Mahmoud Izzat Ibrahim, who is firmly at the helm and running the show both in SINAI and Cairo from the Gaza Beach Hotel, under the auspices of the Palestinian Hamas rulers.<br /></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He plans to confront with violence every action ordered against the Brotherhood by Defense Minister, Gen. Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">While conducting a war of terror against military targets in SINAI, Izzat Ibrahim’s orders keep thousands of followers maintaining their sit-in protests in Cairo for their president's reinstatement. They are determined to leave the military no option but to use force to disperse them.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />Ibrahim's goal is to lead his movement into a bloody confrontation with the military.<br />Gen. El-Sisi, for his part, knows that the Brotherhood’s underground command center in the Gaza Beach Hotel must be destroyed in order to beat its war of resistance.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For effective action in the Gaza Strip, the EGYPTIAN military needs help from ISRAEL’S Defense Forces, just as the IDF needs the EGYPTIAN army to counteract the al Qaeda and other Islamic terrorists in Sinai who are dedicated to attacking ISRAEL as well as EGYPT.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">FOCAL POINT NORTH SINAI </span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This tacit interdependence and the interchanges against a shared enemy shot into prominence over two incidents. The first was the two-hour closure of Eilat airport at ISRAEL’S southernmost tip, following an EGYPTIAN intelligence tip-off over a missile threat from SINAI.  Later, foreign sources reported that two missiles fired by an ISRAELI drone in NORTH SINAI destroyed a missile launcher and killed four or five terrorists at Ajarah.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBX2YdeYNCs73W3EDwR6rgGZwSxdcK-X3MzdO3nsCdOudrUKwPYjyfyQC_cELjJPLw5Sbl92JsEZhOTBcAJP-oXr57XP9_GwoWTMppMZQja1qocsCxKyVdsgOe9Q0iEdDsLa4RW6yUEjGR/s1600/sinai1_large.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBX2YdeYNCs73W3EDwR6rgGZwSxdcK-X3MzdO3nsCdOudrUKwPYjyfyQC_cELjJPLw5Sbl92JsEZhOTBcAJP-oXr57XP9_GwoWTMppMZQja1qocsCxKyVdsgOe9Q0iEdDsLa4RW6yUEjGR/s400/sinai1_large.jpg" width="400" /></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />ISRAEL never confirmed this attack. The impression it made was quickly overlaid with conflicting reports. EGYPTIAN officials initially attributed the ISRAELI drone attack to intelligence cooperation between the two armies. An Al-Qaeda group in SINAI, Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, accused ISRAEL of killing four of its members by a drone strike and vowed vengeance. debkafile reported that the attack may not have been conducted by ISRAEL but EGYPTIAN authorities, which preferred to disavow an operation carried out on the Muslim festival of Eid al-Fitr.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />Finally, the EGYPTIAN military reported that its operation against armed groups in the SINAI believed to have been plotting attacks on security forces and other targets was ongoing. At least seven people were killed over night and six arrested in a raid.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />The EGYPTIAN military statement went on to report that the raid followed an air strike by the EGYPTIAN military, which saw at least four people killed. The assault on the weekend occurred when Apache helicopters hit areas south of Sheikh Zuwaid in north SINAI, according to EGYPTIAN state media.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">ISRAEL’S Defense minister commented: “The EGYPTIAN army is fighting first and foremost to defend EGYPTIAN citizens and sovereignty. We will not let rumors and speculations impair the peace relations between our countries.”</span></div>

EGYPT AND ISRAEL:"JOINT VENTURE"

Gaza City Skyline EGYPT’S MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD GOES UNDERGROUND, HIDES COMMAND STRUCTURE IN GAZA Via DEBKAfile On July 22, debkafile revealed...

EGYPT AND ISRAEL:"JOINT VENTURE"

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