EGYPT’S STRENGTH IS TO SIT STILL!
TRUE IN ISRAEL’S PAST AND STILL TRUE TODAY!
January 26, 2008
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Isaiah 30:7,8 – For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is to sit still.
[8] Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:
It ended in disaster when Israel, during the time of the Prophet Isaiah’s writings, put their faith in Egypt, rather than the God of Israel, to save them. A repeat performance by Egypt in S
inai is now occurring.
Isaiah 30:1-8 – Woe to the rebellious children, saith the Lord, that take counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin: [2] That walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and
to trust in the shadow of Egypt! [3] Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion. [4] For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes.
[5] They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them, nor be an help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach. [6] The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit them.
[7] For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is to sit still. [8] Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:
The closing statement of Excerpt 5, which follows, seems appropriate to the current Gaza Strip crisis on the Egyptian side of where the barrier wall once stood.
A Palestinian tunnel digger crawled out of his 17 meter deep tunnel, when Hamas began destroying the barrier wall, to be told by his boss to quit digging because “nobody needs tunnels anymore.”
Begin Series of Excerpts from Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs – Daily Alert
Excerpt 1
Warning: Palestinian Terrorists Seek to Kidnap Israelis in Sinai and Bring Them to Gaza (Prime Minister’s Office)
Warnings of terrorist attacks in Sinai have recently intensified.
Terrorists in Sinai are working to abduct Israelis in Sinai and convey them to Gaza.
The currently open border between Gaza and Sinai makes it easier for terrorists to move back and forth.
Therefore, Israel’s National Security Council Counter-Terrorism Bureau on Thursday called on Israelis to avoid visiting Sinai and any Israelis currently there should leave forthwith.
Excerpt 2
Palestinian Terrorist Groups Planning Attacks from Sinai – Amir Oren (Ha’aretz)
Hamas and other terrorist organizations in Gaza have used the newly open border with Egypt to send numerous terrorists into Sinai over the last two days with the goal of reaching Israel to commit attacks, Israeli defense officials said Thursday.
Defense officials said the terrorists in Sinai are most likely to try to strike immediately, and almost certainly within the next two weeks.
Excerpt 3
Open Border with Egypt Allows Free Flow of Terrorists and Weapons into Gaza (Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center)
The uncontrolled movement of crowds of Gazans in and out of Egypt means that Hamas can now smuggle terrorist operatives and weapons into Gaza with almost no interference.
Hamas’ goal is to force the Egyptians
to renege on its participation in the Crossings Agreement of August 2005.
Excerpt 4
Hamas Began Cutting Border Wall Four Months Ago to Ambush Israeli Forces – Mark MacKinnon (Globe and Mail-Canada)
Abu Uday, 23, of Hamas, said the systematic effort to weaken the base of the border wall began four months ago in order to ambush Israeli forces.
“We did these things so that if Israel entered the Philadelphi Corridor [a narrow stretch of no-man’s land between Gaza and Egypt] it would be easy to enter and attack them,” he said.
Hamas spokesman Ghazi Hamad said, “We don’t need Israel. If the border is open, we can bring anything in from Egypt.”
Excerpt 5
“Nobody Needs Tunnels Anymore”: Open Border a Nightmare for Palestinian Smugglers – Mark MacKinnon (Globe and Mail-Canada)
Mahmoud Mohammed is a smuggler, one of the hundreds of young Palestinian men who – until Wednesday – made their living crawling deep underground through the maze of tunnels that link Gaza with Sinai.
Mohammed said he was 17 meters below the surface, digging a new tunnel that was almost complete, when the ground above him started to shake with the first of more than a dozen early morning explosions set off by militants affiliated with Hamas that brought most of the iron wall that separated Gaza and Egypt crashing to the ground.
He said that when he got out, his boss told him to quit digging because “nobody needs tunnels anymore.”
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