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| Egypt Maintains Plans For Attack On Israel |
| 2005-05-19 |
| Egypt has been the only Arab state that has maintained plans to attack Israel, a senior Israeli parliamentarian says. Yuval Steinitz, chairman of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, said Egypt has been developing its military in an effort to ensure capability to attack Israel. Steinitz said Egypt's operational plans and exercises have focused on striking Israel. "Egypt is the only country in the region that is preparing for the possibility of a military confrontation with Israel," Steinitz said. Steinitz, whose committee obtains weekly briefings by Israel's military intelligence, said Egypt has developed or procured missiles that could strike Israeli military and civilian targets. He said the Egyptian targets include Israeli air force bases. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 I'd suggest that it means, sans the messy moral questions, that they're just more focused. One goal. One item on the agenda. Unity of purpose. Focus. Of course, not being into the whole scientific method, cause=> effect thingy, were they to succed in this one single goal, well, they'd be as lost lambs ever after. So sad. An entire collection of ideologies, approx 1/4 of humanity, boiled down to one point of reference, one sparkling idea, one tiny tiny (really extra super small), um, datum. Perhaps it's actually quite nice to have a brain as smooth as a cue ball. On a clear disk, you can seek forever. |
| Posted by: .com 2005-05-19 11:08 |
| #3 True, Jackal, but we never said it was our grand plan to destroy a particular race/religious group in those countries. Has Egypt? Egypt Maintains Plans For Attack On Israel Which should exclude them from any participation in "peace plan" negotiations. |
| Posted by: jules 187 2005-05-19 10:12 |
| #2 I'm not saying I really trust these people, but how much is bluff and bluster to keep their own people happy? Heck, we probably have plans to attack Israel, and Canada, and Mexico, and Britain, and... Doesn't mean we're even thinking about doing so. As for Raj's question, I suspect the $2,000,000,000 is mostly so that the State Dept. Egypt section gets a good retirement package. Sec'y Rice has a lot on her plate, but I hope one item is to hose out the stables. |
| Posted by: Jackal 2005-05-19 09:27 |
| #1 I'm hard pressed to figure out why Egypt's plans don't somehow invalidate some, most or all of the $2 billion we send them every year. |
| Posted by: Raj 2005-05-19 08:29 |