Egypt: Planes patrol Sinai without Israel's consent

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Egypt's Air force chief dispatches warplanes to patrol border with Israel, despite peace treaty terms, MENA news agency reports; 'We do not need permission to increase our forces on our land,' General Reda Hafiz says

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4134749,00.html

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"Egypt's air force chief said on Thursday that Egyptian warplanes are patrolling Sinai without Israel's consent, despite a 1979 peace treaty limiting Egypt's military presence in the peninsula.

"Sinai is our land, and we do not need permission to increase our forces on our land," General Reda Hafiz told the official MENA news agency.

"Egyptian planes conduct patrols to secure all Egypt's borders, including the eastern border," he said.

Parts of Sinai have been restricted to Egyptian troops under the terms of the 1979 treaty, by which Israel agreed to withdraw from the territory. In recent months, however, the Egyptian army has deployed reinforcements with Israeli consent to tackle suspected Islamist militants."

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1. I suspect this is a 'damned if they do and damned if they don't' situation because

if there was to be another attack against Israel from Sinai then surely it will be blamed on Egypt being lax in guarding of the border, however this too will most likely be condemned at least by some in Israeli government as Egypt challenging Israel's authority or even sovereignty

Egyptian pilots had best make sure that they never over fly Israeli air space by even one inch