Ship movement suggests treaty will hold - for now

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Aerial view of Sinai Peninsula

WASHINGTON – The announced deployment of Israeli warships off the coast between Egypt and Israel near the Sinai Peninsula suggests a level of cooperation between the two countries in the face of a common terrorist threat – despite their increasing political difficulties since the ouster last January of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, according to a report from Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin.

At the same time, Israel has agreed to an Egyptian request to deploy some 1,500 Egyptian troops along their common border in an effort to halt the potential infiltration of Islamic Jihad members who intend to launch attacks inside the Jewish state.

The limitation of troop deployment was spelled out in the 1978 Camp David accords. The apparent level of cooperation suggests that the transitional Egyptian military council wants to show that Cairo – at least for now – intends to uphold the accords and the 1979 peace treaty between the two countries despite increasing calls from the powerful Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood to revoke the agreements.

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The Israeli navy has dispatched two warships to the waters near its border with Egypt in response to increasing intelligence that more attacks from the Sinai Peninsula into the Jewish state are imminent.

The Israeli warships were sent to Israel's Red Sea border with Egypt, said by Israeli officials to be a routine operation.

While the dispatch of the Israeli warships is described as "not unusual," it comes at the same time that Israeli Defense Minister Matan Vilnai said that a cell of the Islamic Jihad was planning an attack on Israel from the Sinai.

He said that some 10 members had entered Egypt from Gaza and that Israel is receiving cooperation from Egypt which just deployed some 1,500 troops to the Sinai with Israel's approval.

Meantime, Iran has announced that it also is moving some of its warships into the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden again – reportedly to patrol and be alert to possible pirate attacks. This would be the second time that Iran has placed its warships in the Red Sea.

In February, two Iranian warships sailed into the Red Sea and then went through the Suez Canal into the Mediterranean Sea following the fall of the regime of Mubarak.

Mubarak had barred Iran from sailing through the Suez Canal and had been at odds with the Islamic republic since it came to power during the 1979 Iranian revolution.
The transitional Egyptian military council, however, has shown a desire to establish diplomatic relations with Iran and had approved the February sailing of Iranian warships through the Suez Canal.

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