Did the Muslim Brotherhood Order a Rocket Attack on Israel as an Election Eve Ploy?
- Posted on June 17, 2012 at 10:10am by
Sharona Schwartz
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Grad remains found in southern Israel (photo from Ynet)
Israeli security officials say rockets that landed Friday in southern Israel were launched at the request of senior Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood leaders, according to the Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz. The paper reports the timing was specifically engineered to coincide with elections taking place in Egypt this weekend:
According to these officials, the rockets were launched from the Sinai Peninsula by a Bedouin unit, according to Hamas orders, even though Hamas itself wasn’t the initiator of the launching, but responded to the request of the Brotherhood, who wanted such an event on the eve of the second round of presidential elections in Egypt. It is yet unclear why the Brotherhood requested such an unusual action, a first military strike against Israel, or whether the strike was aimed at specific sites in the area.
An Egyptian security official denies the Grad rocket was fired from the Sinai Peninsula. On Sunday, the Egyptian newspaper al-Shuruq reported that Egyptian security forces arrested a suspected terror ring, including 22 Palestinians, Syrians and Jordanians who planned attacks against strategic targets in the Sinai in an attempt to destabilize the country during and after the election period.
If the Israeli security assessments are true about Brotherhood involvement, this would heighten the already grave concerns over the prospects of future peaceful relations between Israel and any Muslim Brotherhood-led government. As troubling: that its leaders may believe bellicose behavior will galvanize their electoral base.
Since the toppling of President Hosni Mubarak, serious questions have arisen about Egypt’s long-term commitment to the Camp David agreement with Israel and its warming relations with the terror group Hamas which is denying any involvement in the reported Egyptian-election machinations.
While the Muslim Brotherhood tries to project a moderate image to the West, for example by articulating it intends to uphold the peace treaty with Israel, Ha’aretz details recent anti-Israel and anti-Jewish statements by Brotherhood leaders on the campaign trail:
Still, in the buildup to the elections, Brotherhood speakers have been known to speak fiercely against Israel. In one gathering, in the beginning of May at El-Mahalla El-Kubra, Brotherhood leaders promised, in the presence of [presidential candidate Mohamed] Morsi, that the object of the Brotherhood is to liberate Jerusalem. The main speaker at that gathering, Sifwat Hijazi, said that Morsi would liberate Jerusalem and that the Brotherhood’s dream was the creation of the “united Arab nations,” with Jerusalem as its capital. “Our capital won’t be Mecca or Medina, but Jerusalem, millions of shahids [martyrs] will march on the city” shouted Hijazi, “the whole world should know – and we say it clearly – our goal is Jerusalem, we shall pray in Jerusalem, and if not – we shall die as martyrs on its ruins.“ Another speaker that day said that ”tomorrow Morsi will liberate Gaza.” A singer sang: “The Jews will not be able to sleep, come, lovers of martyrs, you’re all Hamas. Take on arms, and prepare for prayer.”
The rocket attacks originating in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula have so far been rare compared to the barrage Israel frequently faces from Gaza. Last April, three Grad rockets were launched at the Israeli resort town Eilat and in August 2010, five Grad rockets killed a Jordanian citizen. Last August, the deadly terror attack on vacationers and soldiers in Eilat was launched from the Sinai as a co-production between local Sinai Islamist extremists and Palestinian “Popular Resistance Committees,” with no reported Muslim Brotherhood connection.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned in April that the Sinai was becoming a “terror zone.” The Blaze reported last year on concerns the lawless vacuum in the Sinai desert was being exploited by terrorists.
Despite the controversial Muslim Brotherhood statements, the Obama administration has been holding meetings with various Brotherhood leaders including an April meeting at the White House and a January visit to Muslim Brotherhood headquarters in Cairo by U.S. ambassador to Egypt Ann Peterson to discuss relations between the two countries.
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SlyFox123
Posted on June 18, 2012 at 8:38pmSure……why not, they have President Obama on there side.!
Report Post »The_Cabrito_Goat
Posted on June 18, 2012 at 4:09pmIn America, candidates kiss babies to win votes.
In Egypt, candidates launch rockets at civilians to win votes.
Report Post »LeadNotFollow
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 5:12pm…
Report Post »The Israelis are going to get sick of this crap, and open up a can of whoop-@$$ on the Muslims.
scout n ambush
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 7:40pmLike the 50 some yr old Israeli truck driver 3 arabs tried to kidnap and take the load he was hauling ,He schooled two of the three who at this time are taking a dirtnap while the third is in the emergency room.
Report Post »blackyb
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 4:33pmBefore computers and technology God is IAM.
Report Post »lynnissmart
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 1:56pmEvil, evil, evil…..I will try not to laugh when all evil fails an they fall flat on their faces…….
Report Post »zoro51
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 1:02pmmurdering muslums did shoot that rocket.. BUT the day will come when they them selves wioll be exterminated n removed.. isreal IS for ever they are not.
Report Post »CrawfishFestival2
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 12:57pmWhile Obama and Holder have been arming a FOEIGN INVASION – through their Operation Fast and Furious, here is something worthy of review =
From Adam Smith:
That Doctor who just got 33 years in a Pakistani prison will never be heard from again as he knows Osama wasn’t Osama. The 30 Navy Seals that “just happen to be on a single helicopter” and it gets hit with an RPG and all hands go down. Thirty of the best warriors killed in a single incident and no one in the media even thinks about reporting it. Did the seals know it wasn’t Osama, maybe a body double? Did they question why are we shooting this guy when we could easily capture him and bring him to justice? Does the administration even think about an investigation into how some insurgent with an RPG happens to hit the chopper at the exact moment ALL THIRTY Seals were packed onto an old Chinook chopper to head into battle
Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2012/06/14/michelle-malkin-takes-juan-williams-woodshed-saying-im-real-reporter-#ixzz1xpAkLuB3
Report Post »MADDRICK99
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 1:57pmyou’re an idiot. the seals that were apart of that mission were home with their family. that was the other side of six. dumb a$$
Report Post »Individualism
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 12:47pmif israel were to attack back establishment republican and democrats would condemn them. libertarians would not.
Report Post »Individualism
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 12:44pmwell if someone like ron paul or gary johnson was president they could bomb the living hell out of the islamists for attacking them but obama and romney have to appease not only the israeli lobby but the saudi lobby that doesn’t like israel and wants a palestinian state. sorry but your republican and democrats are a danger to israel.
Report Post »CrawfishFestival2
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 12:37pmYep, ALL financed by our US taxpayer money – through the Democratic Party’s Obama and Hillary Clinton – providing the PLO with over $900 MILLION that was suspected of supporting HAMAS, the TERRORIST Group – during the “peace talks w Israel” –
Report Post »and Obama providing $1 BILLION – of our US taxpayer money – to The MUSLIM BROTHEHOOD – while they are burning down CHRISTIAN churches in Egypt – burning people alive.
blackyb
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 4:23pmSome would classify that as “givinb aid to the enemy.” Some would call that treason. I am some.
Report Post »philipzhao
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 7:28pmThe muslim brothers are no longer in the hood. They are in the White Mosque (DC) and they are out in the open working in:–
Report Post »The Islamic State Department
Department of Homeland Insecurity
Department of Defenseless
Department of Injustice
Islamic Revenue Service
Departmernt of Islamic Education
ObamaCAIR !
chips1
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 11:42amCan Obama get all of his people in place by the eve of our election?
Report Post »rickc34
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 11:00amProphecy is being fulfilled . This is very exciting if you are a believer is Christ because it points to the rapture of the church. Then you atheist will not have to worry about Christians any longer we will be with the Lord. At the end of the tribulation you will see him not as savior but as judge. Your choice.
Report Post »Mike777
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 11:25amAmen
Report Post »Meyvn
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 11:45amLooking forward to this event ;-)
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 12:08pm7 Candles… have 7 Flames (lifes)…. and are 7 Chuches… being 7 sequential ages… where God established 400 for Servatude… as the Hebrews entered Egypt.
You timing is in Error; the Holy Roman Empire was established in 800 ad, as the 3rd Age!
Report Post »Gregb
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 12:11pmjust imagine that the first person that you will see when you wake will be Jesus!!!!!
Report Post »JACKTHETOAD
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 4:43pmSo who’s going to sleep, GREG? (I sure ain’t.) :)
Report Post »Southernguy
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 10:59amThese fools are gonna push it a little too far one day ;)
Report Post »tzion
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 10:52amWell, seeing as most Egyptians are against the peace treaty, this would appear to be no different than Obama ILLEGALLY preventing illegals from being deported. Just an attempt to win votes.
On a side note, I don’t care if you agree with what Obama did because regardless of whether it was right he went about it in the entirely wrong way.
Report Post »AJAYW
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 10:30amIf they did it would be done by one of obama’s executive orders!
Report Post »db321
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 10:50amLet me see my Cyrstle Ball is foggy, but what I have read from the Bible the awnser is a deffinate yes. I even can predict who the winner will be between the World vs Israel. Place your bets now!
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 12:17pm@Ajay: On the executive order of Obama? More likely at his behest or intent. One thing many people are failing to mention or see is that among the terror and radical groups, Hamas is becoming more and more of a proxy group for part of their actions…sort of a mercenary team of terror being used to strike out and cause the chaos needed.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 10:26amDid they direct and order the attack via a proxy and allied associate group? Absolutly. Anything to bring pressure on Israel and remind the people of Egypt the terror that awaits them if the elections are not done in their favor. Obama must be licking his chops at the thought of his allies of the Muslim Brotherhood regaining power shortly given the chance.
How much money and arms has he transferred into their hands?
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 10:35amAll the Cards are dealt… no one has folded… and the betting has begun: We are in for a hell of an End Game!
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 12:04pm@Luke…all too true; the dice have been cast since the end of may, now all we have left is to reap the whirlwind Obama has sewn for the last three years around the world at the behest of Soros.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 10:19amExtermantion (one way or the other) is the Creed of Islam!
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