The Sinai, Mursi new problem

Israel was prepared for the deadly attack in the Sinai - Egypt is not. Cairo now has to fight the terrorist on the peninsula, in the spirit of Israel. It is only a few days ago, when Egypt's new interior minister Ahmad Jamal a-Din mocked a danger message to the Israeli anti-terror agency. She was to leave the Sinai immediately, because there an assassination attempt was imminent. "Egypt is Israel's warnings seriously, but most follow only be intended to intimidate tourists and redirect the flow of visitors from Sinai to Eilat," said Interior Minister to a-Din. But far from it: In the early hours of Monday occurred at the Egyptian-Israeli border, the worst attack in years .Egyptian border guards killed at least 16 terrorists. Anyway, there was considerable on Sunday around the Gaza strip tension.An Islamist extremist was killed in Gaza by an Israeli missile. He was the terror network "global jihad" has been heard, which sympathizes with Al Qaeda, said the Israeli army spokesman. He was involved in an assassination attempt, was shot dead in the couple of weeks ago, an Israeli civilian on the Egyptian border was, and now have another attack planned. On the Israeli attack followed the shelling of the Gaza Strip near the border of Israeli homes. About eight clock in the evening then two SUVs with black-clad men drove to Checkpoint 16 Egyptian border. This is close to the border triangle Kerem Shalom, where Israel, Egypt and the Gaza Strip meet. The attackers stormed the frontier post, killed 16 Egyptian soldiers and injuring seven, some seriously . They seized two army vehicles with which they wanted to attack Israel. First, they blew up an army truck next to an Israeli guard tower, then at least six of the terrorists, an infantry fighting vehicle steered through the breach in the border fence. You did not get far: the Israelis were expecting the attack. The tank was destroyed, the terrorists killed by the Israelis. "Our units ended the action just 15 minutes after it started," said the general in Tal Russo. "No terrorist organization that is not represented in the Sinai" For months, experts had warned Jerusalem not possess enough information about terrorist groups in the Sinai. After the fall of Hosni Mubarak in January 2011 increased here, a power vacuum that was filled by smugglers, criminals and extremists, "There is not a terrorist organization that is not represented in the Sinai: From Al-Qaeda on Hamas to become allies of Iran" said Benjamin Ben Eliezer, Israel's former defense minister with excellent contacts in Egypt. Israel has been attacked repeatedly in recent months from Sinai. But unlike then, the army has now apparently reliable information that foiled the assassination attempt. In diplomatic terms the attack on Israel would have positive consequences.For years, pushing the Israelis in Cairo, the Sinai "recapture" and the supply lines of Palestinian terror organizations in Gaza to t. The attack "could be a wake up call for the Egyptians, to deal with things in the Sinai with more seriousness," said Defense Minister Ehud Barak.