IN MY LIFETIME I HAVE KNOWN OF TWO TRUE EGYPTIAN LEADERS.
The first was a real hero, Anwar Sadat who came to Jerusalem to have tea with his former foe, Menachem Begin. I watched from my balcony in Holon as his plane - alone in the night sky - came to land at Lod, and I watched, via tv, as the motorcade made its way to Jerusalem.
Unfortunately, he was not long back in Egypt when he was assonated.
The second is the incumbent, Abdel Fatah al-Sisi.
According to an article in the UK's Guardian heded Libya and Egypt launch air strikes against Isis after militants post beheadings video,
President Sisi had vowed to ‘avenge the criminal killings’ after release of video purporting to show killing of 21 Christians, believed to be kidnapped Egyptians
The article continued
Egypt reported that its war planes had struck Isis targets in Libya, shortly after President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi vowed revenge for the release by Isis-affiliated militants of a video of a mass killing of Christians.
The statement said the warplanes targeted weapons caches and training camps before returning safely. It said the strikes were “to avenge the bloodshed and to seek retribution from the killers”.
“Let those far and near know that Egyptians have a shield that protects them,” it said.
Libya’s air force meanwhile announced it had launched strikes in the eastern city of Darna, which was taken over by an Isis affiliate last year. The announcement, on the Facebook page of the air force chief of staff, did not provide further details.
The only problem with the Al-Sisi-ordered air strike was that it came too late.
Egyptians in Libya have for some time been targets of Islamists. This time, ISIS martyred only non-Muslims.
Although late in coming, the air strike DID happen, however there was no report of causalities on the ground.
So far, neither the U.S. president nor the UN has condemned the Egyptian air raid into neighboring Libya (but then neither criticizes Egypt for its dealings with Hamas in Gaza - all condemnation is focused on Israel).
For all that, Al-Sisi is to be commended for taking an appropriate action against Daesh (a/k/a ISIS/ISIL) sending the air force of a Muslim state to seek retribution against Muslims in a neighboring Muslim state for the deaths of non-Muslims.
Al-Sisi has been at war with Daesh for months, primarily in the Sinai, but this is the first time Egypt has blatantly taken the battle to the Islamist radicals outside of Egypt's borders.
It's an Israeli plot - of course
Posts by Anonymous Coward User ID: 68078755 on the Godlike Productions web site naturally blame Israel for all the fighting in the region. And people like Anonymous Coward - an apt name - are allowed out of the asylums; gives one pause.
