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Egypt Portrays Israel as Enemy in Training Maneuvers

by Avi Yellin     May 25 2010  /  12 Sivan,5770     

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/137677 

 

The Egyptian military completed large scale training maneuvers in the Sinai Peninsula on Sunday. The official Middle East News Agency said the weeklong maneuvers – code-named "Badr-2010" – included an exercise to cross the Suez Canal as well as a  simulation of an offensive thrust deep into what is termed as "enemy"- i.e. Israeli- territory.

MENA further reported that helicopters, fighter jets, armored units, paratroopers and special shock troops participated in the military exercises and that similar drills were held in Sinai a week earlier.

The government of Israel has protested against such exercises in the past due to the Jewish state being portrayed as the enemy in the drills.

In 1979, Israel was pressured by United States President Jimmy Carter to surrender the entire Sinai Peninsula to Egypt when a peace treaty between the two nations was signed. Israel destroyed its Sinai city of Yamit when it left the Sinai. According to the Camp David Accords signed between Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, Egypt agreed not to deploy major military forces on parts of the Sinai close to the border with Israel.

Egypt currently receives massive amounts of United States military aid and is considered to be the second biggest recipient of American weapons in the Middle East. Despite the country’s ostensible peace agreement with Israel, Egypt’s government remains a leader in the production of anti-Zionist propaganda.

Israel is holding civil defense drills this week designed to prepare the country and its defense forces for various modes of possible attack on civilian areas.

 

EU Wants PA State to Justify Billions of Euro Funding

by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu     May 25 2010  /  12 Sivan,5770     

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/137680 

 

The European Union is worried that its investments of billions of euros for the Palestinian Authority to become a new Arab country within Israel’s borders will go to waste if the American-mediated diplomatic process flops.

 

The EU’s budget for the PA this year is equivalent to about $370 million, and the PA is the largest recipient of EU foreign aid, having received billions of euros over the years. Hundreds of new Arab villages have sprung up throughout Judea and Samaria, and some of the foreign aid is distributed to PA Arabs to take over Jewish farms.

EU officials are wondering what will happen to its investment if the “proximity talks” undertaken by the United States fail. “If at the end of the day we don't have a state, then what are we doing with the money?" asked Christian Berger, the EU's representative in Jerusalem, quoted by Reuters.

PA Prime Minister Salam Fayyad is asking a visiting EU delegation for more money to cover a deficit, despite massive aid that has left the PA a virtual welfare state.

Fayyad previously has stated that his strategy is to turn to the United Nations to recognize the PA as an independent country if Israel does not agree to all of the demands stated in the 2002 Saudi Arabia Initiative. The plan calls for Israel to withdraw from all areas restored to the Jewish State in the 1967 Six-Day War, including the Temple Mount site and the Western Wall (Kotel). Approximately 600,000 Jews, or nearly 10 percent of the nation’s Jewish population, live in areas that the EU does not recognize as being under Israeli sovereignty.

At least seven European nations in the 27-member EU already have recognized the PA as a country and host PA embassies in their countries.