HAMAS IS CREEPING INTO EGYPT!
January 24, 2008
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Egypt, a country already eaten alive with multiple terrorist groups anxious to overthrow the pro-western government, now has a lot more to worry about, with more different terrorist groups streaming into its country across a broken barrier in its northeastern corner.
Egypt’ s government i
s ripe for a plucking up by terrorist radicals, as is Lebanon, and may well be one of the three horns now being set up by those who will eventually make up the ten
horns that follow the Islamic Antichrist. When the Antichrist does attack Israel, he will stream south across Israel, driving her into the Negev Wilderness, then turn south to conquer Egypt, where he will establish his Caliphate Capital at Cairo.
Revelation 12:6 – And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.
Daniel 11:42,43 – He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape. [43] But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
I believe this attack is likely to occur at some point in time between 2010 and 2015, and current events are preparing the way for it.
The immediate questions, for which Egypt now seeks answers, are how many will return to Gaza, how many will stay, and how much trouble will they cause for an Egyptian government that is already unstable.
The three DEBKAfile Excerpts give the last account of the Palestinian incursion into Egypt by Hamas in huge numbers.
Begin DEBKAfile Article 1
DEBKAfile: Egyptian troops give way as more than 350,000 Palestinians surge across Gaza-Sinai crossing. No bar to arms smuggling
January 23, 2008, 5:02 PM (GMT+02:00)
DEBKAfile: Egyptian troops give way to massive Hamas pressure on Gaza- Sinai crossing
Hamas carried out its threat, reported by DEBKAfile Sunday, to smash its way through the border from Gaza to
Egyptian Sinai. Before dawn, Wednesday, Jan.
23, masked men blew up sections of the concrete border wall at the Rafah crossing. Thousands of Palestinians swarmed through as Egyptian border troops, reinforced overnight, fell back.
Tuesday, Hamas built up the pressure by sending thousands of women “demonstrators,” to batter the Rafah crossing. They clashed with Egyptian border troops who opened fire and used night sticks to beat them off. About 70 people were injured in the clash, including Egyptian police.
DEBKAfile’s counter-terror sources report: Hamas’ success in seizing the Gaza border with Egypt and its Rafah terminal is a big one up in their contest with Mahmoud Abbas’ Palestinian Authority, after driving his forces out of Gaza last year and evicting them from administration of its crossings.
It also voids the Israel-Egyptian security accords signed when Israel pulled out of the Gaza Strip in 2005, under which Cairo undertook to control movements out of Gaza assisted by international monitors.
Begin DEBKAfile Article 2
DEBKAfile: Hamas incites Egyptian opposition for street protests, is set to impose reconciliation on Palestinian Authority
January 23, 2008, 1:38 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Palestinian fundamentalist group ruling the Gaza Strip has plans for building on its successes in seizing control of the Egyptian border and forcing Israel to deliver a million tons of fuel and 300,000 tons of cooking gas under unrelenting missile attack.
Hamas agitators are inciting Egyptian opposition parties, led by their parent Muslim Brotherhood, to stage a mass anti-government protest this coming weekend.
Furthermore, DEBKAfile’s Gulf sources report, Hamas leaders backed by Saudi Arabia, are pushing for an Arab summit, to be called an “Emergency Conference for Gaza” to take place in the Sinai town of Sharm al-Sheikh.
Their plan is for Saudi King Abdullah and Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak to jointly force Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas to stand alongside Hamas’ Damascus-based Khaled Meshaal and Ismail Haniya and patch up their quarrel for the sake of Palestinian unity.
This summit would empower Hamas to dictate a limited de facto ceasefire, to force the IDF to agree to holding its fire in return for the suspension of the Palestinian missile offensive. The arms smuggling tunnels would be excluded from the truce deal and continue to build up the Hamas war arsenal with arms, fighting strength and cash unmolested.
Senior Israeli military officers object to such ceasefire terms because Hamas and its allies would be free to resume their missile assaults at will and gear up undisturbed for escalated aggression.
Begin DEBKAfile Article 3
DEBKAfile Exclusive: Hamas’ seizure of Northern Sinai from Egypt sends Washington, Jerusalem and Cairo into tense consultations
January 23, 2008, 8:49 PM (GMT+02:00)
Senior military sources told DEBKAfile that the strategic feat achieved by Hamas Tuesday night, in capturing a section of Sinai from Egyptian forces, is irreversible.
Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice and Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert held tense talks on the crisis Wednesday night, Jan. 23.
By demolishing the 10-km concrete barrier dividing the Gaza Strip from Egyptian Sinai, Hamas, backed by 200,000 Palestinians who surged across Wednesday, has acquired a new stronghold outside Israel’s military reach. US and Israeli intelligence sources report that Hamas laid the ground for its coup and timed it deliberately for the opening Wednesday of the Palestinian National Congress in Damascus.
This event was organized by Tehran and Damascus to counter the US-promoted Annapolis conference and discredit Mahmoud Abbas’ diplomatic track with Israel under the US aegis.
Tehran and Damascus brought to the congress some 900 Palestinian delegates of 17 radical Palestinian opposition groups and 300 “special guests” from across the Arab world.
It was opened by hard-line Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal with a speech which glorified his Gazan brothers’ feat in breaking down the Gaza-Egyptian border as the greatest Palestinian achievement for years.
He declared that an “end to the occupation” in all parts of Palestine must take precedence over Palestinian statehood – a direct challenge to the Bush administration’s two-state thesis.
Rice and David Welch, assistant secretary of state for the Middle East, made a point of warning Mubarak that he must act expeditiously to restore border security because the entire Washington Palestinian strategy hinging on Abbas and the Annapolis declarations hangs in the balance.
But the Egyptian president replied that his main worry is not the Palestinian issue but concern that his own opposition, led by the Muslim Brotherhood, may adopt Hamas tactics and stir up trouble in his cities. Mubarak said he would leave the situation in northern Sinai as it is for the time being. In other words, his troops would not force the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who swarmed out of Gaza to return home.
Such an effort would be a tall order, anyway. According to information reaching Cairo, Hamas has instructed large numbers of Palestinians who fled Gaza to stay where they are. Their assignment is to create a bridge between Gaza and the 40,000 Palestinians living in North Sinai. This population ballooned fivefold on Jan. 23 in the space of a few hours.
Furthermore, the Palestinian department of Egypt’s security services is on high alert after learning that the 130,000 Palestinians living in communities in Cairo, Alexandria and the Suez Canal cities are preparing to help their Gazan brothers steal into Egypt.
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