Israel Surprised at US-Egypt Arms Deal

[marshabar1]

GAZA, July 9 (KUNA) -- Israel voiced surprise Saturday at a new US-Egyptian sales agreement, involving Abrams tanks.
Despite the recent revolution in Egypt and continued anti-government demonstrations there on Friday, the United States signaled this week that it plans to continue business as usual when it comes to arms sales to the Egyptian Military, the Jerusalem Post reported on Saturday.
If approved, the deal would increase the number of Abrams tanks in Egypt from around 1,000 to 1,130, it said.
The news of the deal raised some eyebrows in Israel which has carefully watched arms sales to Egypt ever since Cairo began to receive foreign military aid from the United States to the tune of about USD 1.3 billion annually following the peace treaty the two countries signed in 1979.

www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2179120&Language=en

Why should anybody be surprised at any insane thing this madministration does?

Hamas Is the Muslim Brotherhood

January 29, 2011 4:54 P.M.
By Andrew C. McCarthyNina, Hamas’s overt intervention in Egypt is an alarming development, although a predictable one. It is worth pointing out that Hamas is not merely colluding with the Muslim Brotherhood. Hamas is the Muslim Brotherhood. That, of course, will not be what you hear from our foreign-policy experts, such as Obama adviser Bruce Riedel, who are busily sculpting their narrative about how the Brotherhood — the font on modern jihadist terror — has renounced violence and is really nothing for us to be very concerned about. But the stubborn fact is that Hamas is the most prominent of the Brotherhood’s Palestinian branches, whose operations long predated Hamas and brought Hamas (a/k/a, the Islamic Resistance Movement) into being.

Don’t take my word for it (although I covered the topic in some detail in The Grand Jihad). Don’t even take the word of the Justice Department, which amply demonstrated during the Holy Land Foundation terrorism financing prosecution that the Muslim Brotherhood’s top project in the U.S. has been to drum up support for Hamas. Look, instead, at some relevant sections of Hamas’s 1988 charter (“The Charter of Allah: The Platform of the Islamic Resistance Movement”), announcing the terrorist organization’s existence:

www.nationalreview.com/corner/258381/hamas-muslim-brotherhood-andrew-c-mccarthy

[billisonboard]

So we give them money to buy tanks from military contractors:

[❤ mollymouser ❤]

Very little surprises me anymore.

Unfortunately.

[BeenThere...DoneThat...]

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Selling tanks to the sworn enemy of our friend. Between that & randomly bombing people Babblin Bomben Obama is sure going to make the U.S. popular.

[billisonboard]

Jul 10, 2011 21:46:02 GMT -5 @oldtex said:

Selling tanks to the sworn enemy of our friend. Between that & randomly bombing people Babblin Bomben Obama is sure going to make the U.S. popular.

Here is a read on the full history of US involvement in the arming of the Egyptian military: www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/egypt/m1a1.htm

OBAMA OBAMA OBAMA.

[marshabar1]

July 2009

A lengthy piece published on Saturday in Egypt's official daily slams Iran, Hamas and Hezbollah, accusing them of attempting to overthrow the regime of President Hosni Mubarak.

The article, published in Al-Ahram - the official mouthpiece of the Egyptian government - blames Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah, Hamas official Khaled Meshal and leader of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood Mahdi Akef, along with Iran, Syria, and Qatar for their efforts to destabilize Mubarak's government.

Egypt has long been planning the head-on assault published today, and the recent uncovering of a Hezbollah espionage ring in the Sinai provided the perfect timing for its publication.

The article accuses the three countries and three organizations of cooperating to conspire, adding that only through "providence and responsible, aware and capable security officials" were the plots to harm Egypt and its security exposed.

www.haaretz.com/news/egypt-state-daily-iran-hamas-hezbollah-tried-to-overthrow-mubarak-1.274304

[Tigerwife3]

Jul 10, 2011 21:46:02 GMT -5 @oldtex said:

Selling tanks to the sworn enemy of our friend. Between that & randomly bombing people Babblin Bomben Obama is sure going to make the U.S. popular.

The article in the opening post states Egypt is addding 130 Abram tanks to its existing 1,000 Abram tanks. Who do you think sold or gave the "sworn enemy of our friend" the money for the tanks in the first place all these years? Hint: The Abram tank is produced in the U.S. and Egypt did not come into pocession of the first 1,000 tank during the past 30 months.

[marshabar1]

THE CHARTER OF ALLAH: THE PLATFORM OF THE

ISLAMIC RESISTANCE MOVEMENT (HAMAS)*



The Ideological Aspects



Article One



The Islamic Resistance Movement draws its guidelines from Islam;

derives from it its thinking, interpretations and views about existence,

life and humanity; refers back to it for its conduct; and is inspired by

it in whatever step it takes.





The Link between Hamas and the Association of Muslim Brothers



Article Two



The Islamic Resistance Movement [HAMAS] is one of the wings of the Muslim

Brothers in Palestine. The Muslim Brotherhood Movement is a world

organization, the largest Islamic Movement in the modern era. It is

characterized by a profound understanding, by precise notions and by a

complete comprehensiveness of all concepts of Islam in all domains of

life: views and beliefs, politics and economics, education and society,

jurisprudence and rule, indoctrination and teaching, the arts and

publications, the hidden and the evident, and all the other domains of

life.


www.fas.org/irp/world/para/docs/880818.htm

Mubarak = ally

Muslim Brotherhood = HAMAS/HEZBOLLAH

See any difference?

[marshabar1]

Mubarak = ally

Muslim Brotherhood = HAMAS/HEZBOLLAH

See any difference?

[bimetalaupt]

Jul 10, 2011 22:09:51 GMT -5 @marshabar1 said:

Mubarak = ally

Muslim Brotherhood = HAMAS/HEZBOLLAH

See any difference?

You forgot the Episcopal Church in the middle.. Egypt is now letting them build churches again after the lose of many in the last 12 months to revolt and Recall American Episcopal Cathedral St George ?? A

[ed1066]

If anyone doubted Obama's support for the Muslim Brotherhood, they don't now...

[bimetalaupt]

Jul 10, 2011 23:17:56 GMT -5 @ed1066 said:

If anyone doubted Obama's support for the Muslim Brotherhood, they don't now...

Ed,
I was saying to my Jewish friend .. You will not like the out come of the election when the sea turns out and you can see who is wearing a bathing suit. Hamas is a swarn daemon that can not be cured. They declare every year that they will destroy Israel.. Episcopalian and all. This is called an continuing state of war and because of this Israel can keep the land called West Bank as a defensive action in war. The no added land clause in the UN charter is not about state of war.

Funny thing is the Israel flag has the form of the old Hindo sign for unity not the Star of David..Unity of the Episcopal and Jewish!!
Just a thought,
Bi Metal Au Pt

[txbo]

I think it’s great, the Abrams is built in America by Americans it’s jobs and exports. I don’t think Ford trucks are selling very well over there.

[privateinvestor]

Two beggars are sitting side by side on a street in Rome.
One has a Cross in front of him; the other one is holding the Star of David.
Many people go by, look at both beggars, but only put money into the hat of the
beggar sitting behind the Cross.
A priest comes by. He stops to watch the throngs of people giving money to
the beggar who holds the Cross, but none give to the beggar holding the Star
of David.
Finally, the priest goes over to the beggar behind the Star of David and says,
"My poor fellow, don't you understand? This is a Catholic country; this city is
the seat of Catholicism. People aren't going to give you money if you sit there
with a Star of David in front of you, especially when you're sitting beside a
beggar who is holding a Cross. In fact, they would probably give more money
to him just out of spite."
The beggar behind the 'Star of David' listened to the priest, turned to the
beggar with the Cross and said: "Moishe, look who's trying to teach the
Goldstein brothers about marketing."

[marshabar1]

Thanks to the Arab Spring, the Muslim Brotherhood and other like-minded Egyptian political parties are ready to take charge of Egyptian foreign policy. Despite this ominous development, on Friday, as the indispensable Jonathan S. Tobin reports on Commentary Magazine’s Contentions today, the Obama Defense Department sent a notice to Congress that it intends to sell”125 M1A1 tanks as well as other weapons, equipment, parts, training and logistical support” to, of all countries, the new post-Mubarak Egypt. Congress has 30 (summer) days to stop this feckless deal that threatens to bring lethal harm to Israel’s already beleaguered population. As Tobin writes, “Congress has 30 days to register its formal objections to the proposed sale. That it should do so is imperative. The reasons for a delay are not complicated.“In the wake of Mubarak’s fall from power, the Egyptian military seems to have retained a firm grip on power. But the army seems intent on sharing power with a resurgent Muslim Brotherhood movement that threatens the foundation of the relationship between the United States and Egypt. Since the 1979 Camp David Accords, the Egyptian military has gotten all the high-tech and expensive equipment it wanted so long as it was clear their new toys would not be used to threaten or attack Israel. But as Egypt lurches toward the election of a new government that will probably be made up of Islamist elements, that peace is in jeopardy.

“This means this is not the moment to be strengthening the offensive capabilities of an Egypt that has opened its border with Hamas-run Gaza and is distancing itself from an already cold peace with the Jewish state. Egypt may not yet be ready to repudiate the peace treaty or engage in military adventures, but it must be reminded there is a price for the open-ended U.S. support it has received for decades. While the despotic Mubarak could be trusted to keep the peace in exchange for $2 billion a year in American baksheesh, there is no way of knowing whether the new masters of Cairo will be so reliable.

pajamasmedia.com/tatler/2011/07/10/earth-to-obama-no-new-tanks-to-egypt/

Does this administration want, not only a radicalized Egypt, but also a war in the Middle East? Everyone know Israel would kick A.

Water would flow like blood in the streets.

[deziloooooo]

"to stop this feckless deal that threatens to bring lethal harm to Israel’s already beleaguered population"

I don't beleive 125 Tanks is going to tip the balance of power here..Egypt is still a friend to us, and there is a deal with all parties here.

We also had a deal to sell $80 Billion of arms to the Saudis, not sure if that is still on the table, and I didn't see the Israeli's being that upset over this sale, possible they were well aware of it, their surprise a tt he sale is not as strong as they normally react when these things are brought up.

I wonder if we are selling them surplus equipement, we have to many Abrahms now, there has been talk of cutting down on our inventory..

I wonder why the Egyptians are asking for many of these Tanks now, seems they have more then enough and being so short of funds, unless they have to spend $ we give them on these weapons..

[billisonboard]

Jul 11, 2011 13:11:07 GMT -5 deziloooooo said:

...
I wonder why the Egyptians are asking for many of these Tanks now, seems they have more then enough and being so short of funds, unless they have to spend $ we give them on these weapons..

Reply #1 and the link in reply #5 are appropriate to revisit at this point. I think that Egypt has its own miitary-industrial complex that it needs to feed also.