Report: Israel, Egypt reach understandings on Sinai
Egypt's newly-appointed Defense Minister General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi stressed Cairo's commitment to the 1979 peace treaty in a telephone call with his Israeli counterpart, Ehud Barak, the London-based al-Hayat newspaper reported Friday.
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Senior Egyptian officials told al-Hayat that al-Sisi had reassured his Israeli counterpart about the Sinai operation and confirmed that Cairo and Jerusalem had reached understandings on the matter.
Earlier this week, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said that Israel must make sure that the peace treaty is upheld and not stay silent as troops enter Sinai.
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Also this week, an unnamed member of Egypt's Higher Military Council said that his country was not violating the peace treaty and that this has been communicated to Israel when it asked Egypt to pull its tanks out of Sinai.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4272499,00.html
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Former Military Intelligence chief Amos Yadlin said Wednesday that Egypt’s deployment of tanks to Sinai should not be a worry for Israel so long as Egypt cracks down on terrorist groups operating in the peninsula.
“Terrorism is fought with tanks,” Yadlin, currently head of Tel Aviv University’s Institute for National Security Studies, told Army Radio during an interview.
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In an apparent response to comments Tuesday by Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman, who said Israel must ensure that every letter of the peace treaty is enforced, Yadlin said there is no need to latch on to every letter of the agreement.
“What the Egyptians are doing in Sinai today is a more significant effort than in the past to deal with terrorism,” Yadlin said. “So long as the operation is widespread and focused against terrorism, I think we need to look at this realistically.”
http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Article.aspx?id=282192
apparently he needs to speak with one of DU's resident military experts, that'll set him straight
