Last week 33 Egyptian security personnel were killed in attacks in the Sinai Peninsula. Ever since Mohamed Morsi was ousted as President by the army last year there have been sporadic attacks on Egyptian security forces but the Muslim Brotherhood has denied all knowledge, asserting that it is completely peaceful. Egypt has blamed Qatar, Turkey and Iran for financing the attacks and the Hamas in Gaza for orchestrating them. Egypt is now going to demolish all houses along the border with Gaza, to create a 500 yard buffer zone, and dig trenches filled with water to prevent Hamas from digging tunnels into Egypt. Hamas had been using tunnels into Egypt to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza and to smuggle arms into the territory. In July there was a war between Israel and Hamas after 3 Israeli teenagers were kidnapped and shot dead by Palestinians. Israel rearrested men who had been released in exchange for Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier kidnapped and held captive by Hamas for 5 years. Hamas responded by firing thousands of rockets into Israel. A senior intelligence officer admitted that Israel had seriously underestimated the training of Hamas fighters and the amount of arms they had managed to smuggle in. Hamas had built tunnels into Israel through which they sent fighters to try and kidnap Israeli soldiers. They claimed to have abducted Lt Hadar Goldin, who was later found dead. Israel has a Hannibal Directive which says that any abduction of an Israeli soldier will invite heavy fire even if the kidnapped soldier is killed in the process. It is a tacit admission that the soldier, his family and the state of Israel will suffer much less torture if the soldier is dead. About a week before the attack on Egypt the British parliament adopted a motion recognising a Palestinian state, in a blatant act of interference in the affairs of another country. Britain is known for its rabid anti-Semitism. Shylock, in the Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare, is the absolute example of humiliating racism. While the British parliament was passing its anti-Israeli motion, allegedly to promote peace through a two state solution, the British government, including its monarch, was preparing a red carpet welcome for the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani, because Qatar owns a lot of businesses in Britain. Qatar happens to be one of the largest financiers of terrorism in the world today. For money Brits will humbly prostrate themselves in front of the Emir even though they have not recovered from the trauma of losing the 2022 World Cup to Qatar, allegedly due to bribery. There is also a question of, what is known as, ' minority appeasement ' in India. Perhaps Britain will become part of the middle east.
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