WikiLeaks: Mubarak given advanced notice of planned Gaza attack.

[seafan]

First, this headline:


January 31, 2011

Israel allows Egypt troops in Sinai for first time since 1979 peace treaty

Due to street protests threatening Mubarak's regime, Israel agrees to let about 800 Egyptian soldiers into Sharm el-Sheikh area in Sinai.

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The officials spoke Monday on condition of anonymity because Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has banned the government from discussing the situation in Egypt.

From Der Spiegel:


January 30, 2011

The Pharaoh was silent. He was sitting, as he often does now in his old age, in his vacation home in Sharm al-Sheikh on the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula, gazing out at Tiran Island in the eternally glistening Red Sea. This is where the Egyptian president receives world leaders, where he has sat stiffly next to Israeli prime ministers, and where he has introduced alternating US presidents to alternating Arab rulers. Hosni Mubarak, 82, feels at home in the majestic calm of Sharm el-Sheikh, but not in noisy, dirty, crowded Cairo.

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So far, the only clear loser of the events of past weeks is Israel. The Jewish state, which has become accustomed to the status quo, threatens to lose several potential partners for peace. For this reason, top politicians in the "only democracy in the Middle East," as Israel characterizes itself, have followed the events in the region with little enthusiasm. Their reactions have been sparse and in some cases icy.

Despite his policies of brutal suppression, Egypt's autocratic president has become Israel's favorite Arab politician. Mubarak has repeatedly offered his services as a mediator in the Palestinian conflict. Cables from the US embassy in Cairo made available by WikiLeaks indicate that Mubarak even has an excellent working relationship with Israel's hardliner prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, whom he calls "charming." The two leaders are on such good terms that Netanyahu even gave the Egyptian leader advance notice of his plans to attack the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip and offered him the option of governing the region himself after the attack -- an offer Mubarak politely rejected.

Israeli politicians sense that Egypt's next strong man will hardly be as cooperative. Indeed, the Israelis will sorely miss Mubarak.

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This very disturbing revelation at the end of this Der Spiegel piece leads one to ask the question:

If Mubarak had advance notice of the attack on Gaza, replete with an offer to take control of the spoils, did also the US Government have advance notice of the impending Gaza attack by Israel?



The Egyptian revolution will have very far-reaching ramifications.

[Catherina]

1. Of course the US did. Even the terrible, corrupt and complicit Palestinian Authority (Fatah) did

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[The Doctor.]

3. Wikileaks shows just the tip of the iceberg.

Sadly, the PA is about power, not people... just as Arafat demonstrated so many times.

[Hissyspit]

2. "There's nothing new in these cables." "We already knew this stuff."

"Nothing to see here; move along."

"Nothing new in these cables. Nothing new. Nothing new. Nothing new. Bwaack! Polly want a cracker."

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