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by Khaled Abu Toameh
• November 3, 2014 at 5:00 am
Egypt's
crackdown in Sinai once again exposes the double standards of the
international community toward the war on terrorism. While it is fine for
Egypt to demolish hundreds of houses and forcibly transfer thousands of
people in the name of the war on terrorism, Israel is not allowed to fire
back at those who launch rockets and missiles at its civilians.
The
Egyptians have finally realized that the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip has
become one of the region's main exporters of terrorism.
What
is perhaps more worrying is the fear that the security clampdown in Egypt
will drive Hamas and other terror groups in the Gaza Strip to resume
their attacks on Israel.
Needless
to say, the international community will continue to ignore Egypt's
bulldozing hundreds of houses and the forcible eviction of hundreds of
people in Sinai.
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A building is blown up by Egypt's army as part of an
operation to clear all buildings out of a "buffer zone,"
along Egypt's border with the Gaza Strip. (Image source: PressTV video
screenshot)
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Three months after the military conformation between Hamas and
Israel, the Egyptians are also waging their own war on terrorism in north
Sinai.
But Egypt's war, which began after Islamist terrorists butchered 33
Egyptian soldiers, does not seem to worry the international community and
human rights organizations, at least not as much as Israel's operation to
stop rockets and missiles from being fired into it from the Gaza Strip.
The Egyptian army's security crackdown includes the demolition of
hundreds of houses along the border with the Gaza Strip and the transfer
of thousands of people to new locations.
by Peter Martino
• November 3, 2014 at 4:00 am
Recently,
Russian fighter planes and even bombers were spotted over the Baltics,
Norway, the Netherlands, the Turkish part of the Black Sea and as far as
the Atlantic Ocean.
Russia,
on the other hand, has increased its military budget almost tenfold in
the past years.
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A Norwegian F-16 shadows a Russian air force Tupolev
Tu-95 bomber. (Image source: Norwegian Air Force)
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It is always unwise to fight a war on two fronts, especially after
defense cuts have undermined one's military. But that seems to be where
the West is heading. The Western allies are fighting ISIS in Syria and
Iraq, while at the same time tensions are rising between NATO and Russia.
The question is whether NATO can afford both after the cuts in its
defense budgets of the past two decades.
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