Having a Bad Day in Egypt? Blame the Jews!

In early December sharks attacked visitors swimming in the sea along the Egypt's Sinai coast, leaving one woman dead and several other persons seriously injured. Of course, someone needed to be blamed for the incidents, which were apt to dampen tourism, and who was chosen for the role of scapegoat? You guessed right! As reported by BBC News (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-11937285):

"Israel has dismissed Egyptian claims that a series of shark attacks in the Red Sea could have been the result of a plot carried out by its foreign intelligence agency, Mossad.

The reports - apparently quoting the South Sinai governor - have been picked up by the Israeli media.

An elderly woman was killed by a shark in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh on Sunday.

Several other swimmers have been mauled in the past week.

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Rumours had circulated in Egypt that there could be an Israeli connection to this unusual spate of Red Sea shark attacks.

However, it was comments attributed to the South Sinai governor, Mohamed Abdul Fadil Shousha, carried on an official Egyptian news site that drew attention.

'What is being said about the Mossad throwing the deadly shark [in the sea] to hit tourism in Egypt is not out of the question, but it needs time to confirm,' he is reported to have said."

But if the link between the Mossad and the shark attacks suggested by South Sinai's governor was not sufficiently inane, we were treated to more poppycock from a group of Egyptian lawyers claiming that last week's attack on Egypt's Copts (see: http://jgcaesarea.blogspot.com/2010/12/ongoing-war-against-middle-easts.html) was also fomented by the Mossad. As reported by The Jerusalem Post (http://www.jpost.com/Headlines/Article.aspx?id=202002):

"A coalition of Egyptian lawyers accused Israel of being behind an terror attack in Alexandria that killed 22 members of the Christian Copt sect, Army Radio reported Monday.

'The Mossad carried out the the operation in a natural reaction to the latest uncovering of an Israeli espionage network,' the lawyers accused at a rally in memory of the victims, organized by the Egyptian Bar Association, according to the report.

At the gathering, aid to former Egyptian foreign minister Abdallah al-Ashal called for Cairo to reconsider its relations with Jerusalem, according to Army Radio."

Unfortunately, there is an immense market for this nonsense, intended to enflame the masses in Cairo. Although a peace treaty was signed in 1979 between Egypt and Israel by Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin, it is little wonder, as revealed by WikiLeaks, that the Egyptian armed forces continue to view Israel as its primary adversary (see: http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=201674&R=R3).

Which leaves one to wonder what will happen when Egypt's president, Hosni Mubarak, soon to be 83-years-old, leaves the scene.