Israel-Gaza conflict: Is Egypt playing with fire?

By Peter Nguli
 
When Egyptian Prime Minister, Hisham Kandil, visited Gaza on Saturday, he echoed the words of his president; that Israel must stop its aggression towards Gaza. He never asked his Gaza terrorists to stop firing missiles and rockets towards Israel.
 
This happened as Tel Aviv, Israeli's second city, was cowering under missiles fired from Gaza by Islamic hardcore extremists. Reports indicate that over 500 rockets have been fired into Israel over the last three days.

This also happened as Gaza officials said 28 Palestinians, 16 of them civilians, had been killed in the enclave since Israel began the air offensive against the tiny, densely populated enclave ruled by the Islamist Hamas movement. So far three Israelis have been killed by rocket fired from Gaza.
 
What the Egyptian authorities fail to recognise is Israel, though a tinny state, is extremely powerful.

During the 1967 Arab-Israel War, perhaps the Egyptian president was a toddler and cannot remember that it took only six days for Israelis to defeat all Arab states that waged war against the Jewish state.

The Egyptian president doesn't know that when Israelis choose to hit, they indeed hit hard. Perhaps he may ask Lebanon during 2006 and how hard Israel them and the lesson they learnt.

Israel has fought many wars and it always wins. Do not even mention the skillful, well crafted 1970's Entebbe hostage rescue in Uganda that left dictator Idi Amin gnashing his teeth. Israel is a world leading technological super-power. That is why when the Egyptian president gives threats, Israel just laughs.

 Biblically, Israel is a symbol of Christianity and has never been defeated in any war, even before the birth of Jesus Christ 2000 years ago. Spiritually, Israel is a God-chosen country and will never ever be defeated, is divine and a fire that countries like Egypt stopped playing with.
 
Israel is a regional military super-power. It is regarded as the fourth biggest military power in the world.

At the moment, it has one of the most powerful missile defence systems in the world called the Iron Dome, the best intelligence services-Mossad, military airforce in addition to the mightiest armies and navies.
 
It is foolhardy to listen to Egyptian president giving threats to Israel. Israel can crash Egypt in minutes; yet the Egyptian president thinks America is not an ally of Israel. Meanwhile, the bombs continue to reign in Gaza.

At the end of the conflict, Gaza will have suffered a thousand times more casualties than the Israel. Tell me, who is more naive?

Egyptian president should know there is no smoke without fire, no thunder without lightning and no rains without clouds. Playing with Israel is playing with fire.

Israel will never be moved. Israel will remain strong and steadfast.