To PatrickHenry: Apparently reading comprehension isn’t your strong suit.  Men dressed as Egyptian soldiers crossed into Israel from the Sinai and killed unarmed civilians.  Israel went after them and killed three men; whether or not the infiltrators really were Egyptian solders is not known. 

As for dropping bombs, I assume you mean Gaza?  You do know that Gaza constantly shoots rockets into Israel on almost a daily basis.  When are you going to take them to task?

walterbard,

I see it as Israel attempting to create a situation where it doesn’t honor the treaty with Egypt.

They have already drawn first blood by killing some Egyptian border police, while bombing and killing innocents without a shread of proof of who killed those Israelis on a bus.

Same old Israel…kill first find out the facts later.

What this article tells us is that Egypt will eventually renege on the treaty and thus start another war. But it has already started. How were
terrorist able to attack Israel without at least Egyptian forced looking the other way.
The next time Israel should not cede an inch of the Sinai after it has retaken it.

sharonsj,

Egyptians who kill attacking armed Israelis are called defenders.

Israelis who drop bombs on unarmed civilians are called war criminals.

@ OzarkMichael

I have got no problem with nationalism. I believe that most leftists wouldn’t either considering the multi-national threat to self determination. Opposition to a mafia is perhaps beyond left or right, but it seems left-wing to me.

A brief intro to some of my concerns about the article:

First, one feature of the article here is “nationalism”, and that usually is not a virtue as far as Leftists are concerned. Furthermore, she mentions “righteous nationalism”, which is even more questionable to the Truthdig crowd.

I quote: “The heart of the people unites in rejoicing this wildly brave, nonviolent gesture of righteous nationalism”

How long till ‘righteous nationalism’ demands and executes something more concrete than a gesture? Perhaps something violent? “The people unites” sounds like something Truthdiggers would normally dispise. Not even Rush Limbaugh uses phrases like that.

Here is another concept: “The martyrs’ blood that was spilt while doing their scared duty will not be wasted.”

The idea that Egypt as a state has martyrs is odd. That is a religious term. Again, this is Truthdig, where such transference of religious symbols to the state is always always frowned upon.

Dont get me wrong. People in Egypt have their own values, and they have a right to express them how they like. It isnt the people in Egypt who have a double standard. Its the Leftists at Truthdig.

Its just odd to see that sort of religious nationalistic talk on Truthdig when you know if a conservative American talked that way, it would be roundly mocked by everyone here. I suspect Lauren Unger-Geoffroy would mock it as well.

There seems to be a double standard and I wonder if anyone would address that.

@ Patrick Henry

Who warned them???

C’mon… be reasonable

“Poking around where you don’t belong”

Let it go. Come into the light.

EmileZ,

The voices of the ‘flagman’ are all in your head and by the looks of it it isn’t pretty.

Those hikers got what they deserved. If you want to go poking around where you don’t belong bad things happen.  They were warned.

@ Patrick Henry

The flagman was not at all impressed by this comment you made. He felt it was a cop out.

“EmileZ,

You should be asking who didn’t warn them”

(The three hikers… remember)

As for the “zionist twat” remark, I don’t have a clue as to where you might be coming from with that.

Like I said, it is an absolutely lovely photo.

EmileZ,

The flagman thinks you are a sanctimonious cynical jerk. He told me so the other day.

Wake up, no one said anything to the zionist twat as you depict yourself.

That is a wonderful photo and I like it very much.

I love that photo!!!

@ SarcastiCanuck

You are sounding kind of hysterical to me.

Just an observation. Nothing to get all worked up over.

@ truedigger 3

I hope you don’t have too much trouble coping with that image you conjured up.

I might if I wasn’t so laid back.

@ truedigger 3

Obviously I wasn’t in the mood.

There is nothing in her ramblings that explains exactly what went on in the Sinai, so I googled newspaper articles.  It appears that men wearing Egyptian army uniforms attacked a bus full of unarmed civilians as well as people in passing cars, and some Israeli soldiers, in a series of attacks.  The Israelis shot back.

Egyptians who kill Jews—any Jews, armed or not, it doesn’t matter—are considered heroes.  I call them murderers.

I am yawning. Yawn.

@ truedigger 3

You are full of shit.

MOST Egyptians want the peace treaty with Israel to hold and are not interested in a “hot” confrontation with Israel whatsoever.
The Egyptians know that Israel has the full military , economic and political backing of the ONLY super-power in the world and the backing of the EU too, and for that reason they know that any war with Israel will end with a sounding defeat to Egypt with a wide spread destruction and the loss of the Sinai Pennisula and with the Israelis are at the eastern side of the Suez Canal just as it happened after the 1967 war.
It is very possible, for that reason, that Israel, in REALITY, WANTS a war with Egypt to occupy Sinai and to hit Egypt in where it hurts.
Egypt has enormous problems and all it needs, right now, is a return to stability and a competent strong secular ruler that will get the country and the economy moving again, instead of that spineless incompetent Junta.
Yes, Muabarak was hated and he stayed for too long, but the current situation in Egypt is depressing. This is not an “Arab Spring” but this is a cold freezing gloomy ominous “Arab Winter”.
The most imminent danger that is facing Egypt right now is that the Muslim Brotherhood with the rest of Radical Islamists groups will takeover power. It seems that the Muslim Brotherhood has the backing and support of the USA and the EU. Go FIGURE!!.
I don’t know who that “Lauren Unger-Goeffrey” is and what are her real motives and agenda in writing that misleading nonsense. She smells very fishy. She is full of shit and she knows it and truthdig should know that too!!!!!

@ Patrick Henry

The flagman thinks you are a sanctimonious cynical jerk. He told me so the other day.

To be young and indestructible once again.

Long live the “flagman”!

And may his spirit spread all over the region till its people are liberated from the evils of the “neo-Hitlerism” as represented by Zionist Israel!