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by Khaled Abu Toameh
• April 13, 2015 at 5:00 am
This
week, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi signed a new law, according
to which anyone who digs a tunnel along Egypt's borders would face life
imprisonment.
Sisi
has shown real guts and determination in his war to drain the swamps of
terrorists.
The
tough measures he has taken along Egypt's border with the Gaza Strip have
proven to be even more effective than Israel's military operations
against the smuggling tunnels.
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Egyptian soldiers prepare to blow up a large
smuggling tunnel they discovered along Sinai's border with Gaza,
September 2014. (Image source: Almyan video screenshot)
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Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi's uncompromising war on
terrorism, especially along the border with the Gaza Strip, seems to be
bearing fruit. It is a war that is being waged away from the spotlight
and with almost no reaction from the international community.
This situation is a perfect example of how the international
community and the United Nations do not care about the "plight"
of the Palestinians as long as Israel is not involved. Sisi's war on
terrorism has thus far failed to spark the same uproar, if any, that is
often triggered by Israeli military operations against Hamas and its
smuggling tunnels.
As a result of this war -- which began in 2013, shortly after Sisi
came to power, with the destruction of hundreds of smuggling tunnels
along the border between Egypt and the Gaza Strip -- Hamas and other
armed groups are now more isolated than ever.
by Vijeta Uniyal
• April 13, 2015 at 4:00 am
As
President Obama tries to sell the world his mysterious nuclear
"framework agreement," India's defense establishment is just
not buying it. The U.S. and Western commentators might be expecting
"peace dividends" from Iran, but India cannot afford to harbor
such illusions.
The
Iranians have already announced that they plan to sell "enriched
uranium" in the international marketplace, and will be
"hopefully making some money" from it. To whom will they sell?
A
nuclear Iran would be able to hold the world hostage by blocking
one-third of the world's oil supply at the Strait of Hormuz. Iranian
proxies have also been trying to seize control of the Bab-el-Mandeb
Strait, the maritime choke point of the Suez Canal.
The
only question is whether the West would rather have an adversary such as
Iran before it has nuclear weapons or after.
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At left, Indian defense contractors work on an
Advanced Air Defence (AAD) interceptor missile. At right, an Indian AAD
missile is test-launched.
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When the West and Iran agreed -- or not, depending on whether one
believes the U.S. version or Iran's -- on the parameters of a supposed
nuclear "framework," India's foreign office hailed the
agreement as a "significant step."
India's foreign office might have joined the international chorus
welcoming the deal, but as U.S. President Barack Obama aggressively tries
to sell the world his mysterious nuclear "framework," India's
defense establishment is just not buying it.
India's defense establishment seems to be having acute qualms about
this "framework."
One day after the P5+1's mysterious "agreement" with Iran,
India began gearing up for a more effective nuclear defense, and unveiled
plans to equip the country's capital, New Delhi, with a comprehensive
missile defense shield to avert a nuclear attack.
Once in place, the shield could intercept missiles fired from a
range of 5,000 km, roughly double the aerial distance between New Delhi
and Tehran.
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